A transverse elevator system having generally horizontal and generally vertical components in a building with horizontal pathways guiding first passenger vehicles on each floor that connect to a plurality of vertical pathways guiding second passenger vehicles intersecting the horizontal pathways at stops at the points of intersection, wherein passenger transfer from horizontal to vertical movement is achieved by locking the first vehicles to the second vehicles with passenger chutes defining panels that extend from the vertical pathways and lock the first vehicles to the vertical pathways. In a second embodiment, passengers are carried in a separate enclosed CAPULSEs that shift from the first vehicles to the second vehicles obviating the need for complex horizontal to vertical drive transfer mechanisms.

A sliding-contact power supply system and a three-dimensional circulating garage having the same are provided. The sliding-contact power supply system includes: a plurality of sub-sliding wires, each of the plurality of sub-sliding wires being adapted to be electrically connected to an outside power supply; a plurality of insulation segmentation elements, each of the plurality of insulation segmentation elements being connected between two sub-sliding wires; and a plurality of current collectors, each of the plurality of current collectors being electrically connected to the sub-sliding wire; wherein the plurality of sub-sliding wires and the plurality of insulation segmentation elements form a sliding wire guide rail having a ring shape, and each current collector is slidably disposed on the sliding wire guide rail.

A system and method to store a bicycle, with the bicycle transported by a tracked, chain-driven conveyor, the bicycle protected from damage by a container and protected from theft by locking the container and using a code to establish the right to access the bicycle for retrieval.

In a parking system having movable parking platforms, at least a part of the parking platforms of a front row, when viewed in the direction of entry, has a roof spanning the parking platform. The parking platforms provided with a roof can optionally be vertically adjusted to different positions, i.e., to an entry/exit position, in which the parking platform is on an entry level which allows a vehicle to be driven over in order to be parked, or to a drive-over position, in which the roof is located on the entry level and can be driven over by a vehicle driving in to reach a parking platform located in the row behind it, as well as in a parking position which is lowered in relation to the drive-over position and in which a further parking platform can be moved transversely over the roof.