Patent ID: 7412942

Claim:
A personnel guidance and location control system for guiding a group of pedestrian individuals into a group of individuals of narrow width thereof and into 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 end of a line element associated with said cover substrate and at a fixed location thereon; 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 group of individuals; d) said pathway having a width adapted to arrange the group of pedestrian individuals into a group of individuals of narrow width which is sufficient for queuing such individuals and cause them to move to the end of the line position and a destination in advance of the end of the line position; and e) wherein said at least one substrate having said at least one elongate element, said pair of spaced apart rows, and said width of said pathway 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.