Baggage handling
A baggage handling if a means of tourism, which is required travelers to transport their luggage did not make yourself.
function
The baggage handling department accepts luggage from travelers, initiates its onward transport and returns luggage to arriving travelers after it has been transported.
railroad
This form of luggage transport was widespread on the railways. Almost every staffed train station or stop had a baggage handling facility (Gepa). In smaller stations, this could also be merged with other departments, such as express goods processing or ticket sales ; in very large stations, checked baggage could be accepted and handed over at separate counters.
Baggage handling has existed since the beginning of the railroad. The service was abandoned when, on the one hand, more and more travelers took their luggage with them as hand luggage and transported it in the cars in which they were traveling themselves. On the other hand, the personnel-intensive service became increasingly less profitable and the railway no longer had any commercial interest in continuing it.
Air traffic
Check-in counter with baggage conveyor belt (center) at Hanoi Airport
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Baggage claim belt at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
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Baggage handling is mandatory in air traffic , as baggage may only be taken into the cabin to a limited extent for security reasons and because of the limited space available . Baggage drop-off usually takes place at check-in . At larger airports, baggage claim is usually automated and without staff: the passengers take their checked baggage from the baggage claim belt themselves .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Kirsche (ed.): Lexicon of the railway . VEB transpress, 5th edition Berlin 1976, p. 308.