AUTOMATIC PLATFORM SCREEN DOORS MARKET ANALYSIS

Market Challenges And Opportunities

High Cost of Installation of Automatic Platform Screen Doors is Restraining Growth of the Market

The primary disadvantage of these doors is the cost of installation of automatic platform screen doors. For instance, installing such a system typically cost several million dollars per station. In the vent of retrofitting older systems, the kind of rolling stock used to operate trains is also limited as the train doors are required to have the same measurements, which are in line with the doors used. This in turn requires the upgrading of rolling stock, which further adds to the cost of installation of such systems. These doors also require more metallic frame work for support. Moreover, these doors also involve high maintenance costs due to their complex structure. Although automatic platform screen doors technology provides safety, it is also not devoid of situations such as accidents in which people may get trapped between platform doors and train carriage and further get crushed when train begins to move, which is hindering growth of the automatic platform screen door market. Furthermore, lack of knowledge regarding automatic platform screen doors technology in some regions across the globe is adversely impacting the growth of the market, as this is relatively a new technology which is being adopted only by developed nations in their metro rail transportation networks.