Abstract: In extensive and complex installations such as airports or train stations, a sufficient quantity of luggage pushcarts is made available to passengers of arriving mass transportation means at the location of arrival and at the time of arrival of the mass transportation means with the smallest possible expenditure of time and personnel and the payment of a user fee or a security deposit by the individual travelers is facilitated in that the retrieval of individual luggage pushcarts is controlled by means of a cart tracking system comprising a stationary transmitter/receiver system and a mobile transmitter/receiver system and by at least one computer/display unit, and the security deposit acceptance device has a programmable money changing machine which accepts at least one foreign currency.

Abstract: An advertisement system for an airport facility having a plurality of gates connected by passageways and aisles and provided in departure and arrival buildings with restaurants and shops, with information carriers emitting written and picture messages and provided on information boards, and with a plurality of luggage pushcarts for transporting luggage of airport passengers inside the facility, the advertisements system including a plurality of advertisement panels each having a standard advertisement message and at least one different advertisement message stored in the advertisement panels, and elements which arbitrary change the messages so that one of the advertisement messages is displayed at a time.