Patent ID: 7188582

Claim:
A personnel guidance and location control system for guiding a group of pedestrian individuals into a line thereof in a relatively narrow pedestrian pathway and controlling movement thereof and to an activity beyond the end of that pathway, said guidance and location control system comprising: a) at least one ground cover substrate for disposition on a ground surface; b) at least one elongate element associated with said cover substrate and for securement at a fixed location thereon, said at least one elongate element comprising wait state indicia, said wait state indicia defining said fixed location as an end of a line for a queue of individuals; c) a pair of spaced apart rows of a plurality of small discrete path forming elements associated with said ground cover substrate in fixed locations thereon relative to the elongate element and extending from opposite ends of the elongate element creating a pair of spaced apart pathway boundaries to define the pedestrian pathway of movement for the queue of individuals; d) at least one movement indicator element located on the at least one substrate, said at least one movement indicator indicating a movement direction along said at least one substrate which leads to said at least one elongate element; e) said at least one substrate having a width, wherein said width of the substrate or a width of said pair of spaced apart boundaries or a combination thereof are adapted to arrange said group of pedestrian individuals into a line of individuals; and f) wherein said at least one substrate having said at least one elongate element, said pair of spaced apart boundaries, said width of the substrate, or said pair of spaced apart boundaries, or combination thereof and said at least one movement indicator form a means for queuing said group of pedestrian individuals into said line of individuals along said at least one substrate to said at least one elongate element having said wait state indicia.