@BOOK{NAP21940, author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "John J. Schiavone", title = "Elevator and Escalator Maintenance and Safety Practices", doi = "10.17226/21940", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 100: Elevator and Escalator Maintenance and Safety Practices documents elevator and escalator maintenance activities, safety practices, and passenger communication efforts at five U.S. transit agencies.The five agencies where information was gathered are MARTA (Atlanta, Georgia), NYCTA (New York, New York), SEPTA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), CTA (Chicago, Illinois), and BART (San Francisco, California). These five agencies together operate 1,418 elevators and escalators throughout 850 rail stations.Together, they are part of a U.S. Federal Transit Administration-sponsored consortium with the American Public Transportation Association, Amalgamated Transit Union, and the Learning Center, engaged in developing a Transit Elevator\/Escalator Maintenance Training and Apprenticeship Program.The following four appendixes to TCRP Synthesis 100 are available in electronic format only. Links to the appendixes are below.\u2022 BART Elevator PM, 59\u2022 BART Escalator PM, 254\u2022 BART El-Es Training 1, 507\u2022 BART El-Es Training 2, 556", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21940/elevator-and-escalator-maintenance-and-safety-practices", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }