Could be brilliant for buildings with large floor plans. Instead of having totally separate banks of elevators you need to walk between, you could design a building to take advantage of these and be able to shuttle people between elevator banks. You could have, for example, a UN like building, which is both quite tall, and fairly wide, and have, every few floors, not just the double shaft that allows lifts to dynamically route around each other (you can have multiple lifts sharing a single shaft, and routing around each other via the "spare" shaft, allowing, say, for a high capacity lift to unload on a floor while another couple pass by to higher floors to do the same) but also capable of delivering you to a north or south elevator bank. Or, for somewhere the size of something like the LHC, have a lift system that can take you under ground and to the relevant instrument for maintenance, instead of always biking there. Integrating the system, while initially more expensive, would probably be easier than needing to support, say, a mini-tram system. When you can standardize more systems to the same standard, it is generally beneficial after all.,(reply>), But... this basically IS a mini tram. Just attached to the wall. So a mini tram with normal rails would prolly be a lot cheaper in a case like the LHC