System and method for monitoring a transport of a passenger transportation device or transport unit

A system comprising:

• a passenger-transportation device embodied as an escalator, moving walk, or elevator;
• and
• at least one transport-monitoring module, that, during transport of the passenger-transportation device from a shipping location to a destination location, is arranged on the passenger-transportation device or on a transport unit as part of the passenger-transportation device, and, after the transport, is removable, and wherein the transport-monitoring module has at least one sensor, wherein the transport of the passenger-transportation device is performed by a shipping contractor, wherein the transport-monitoring module has an interface unit, through which, at least during the transport of the passenger-transportation device, a connection of the transport-monitoring module with a data memory of the passenger-transportation device is established, wherein the interface unit is configured such that transport-monitoring data that are to be stored, the data being based at least partly on sensor data of the at least one sensor, is permanently stored in the data memory of the passenger-transportation device, and the data memory remains permanently arranged in the passenger-transportation device.