Namur Cable Car should boost city tourism
With its citadel, the Belgian city of Namur has one of the largest fortresses in Europe. From April 2021, a new cable car from French manufacturer POMA will run to the tourist attraction – and therefore take on an ancient heritage.
Yokohama cable car – opening as early as the end of April
In 2017, the question that arose in Yokohama was how to improve the city’s transport system. Various ideas were considered in detail here and the urban cable car ultimately came out on top.
National Guidlines for Execution
The German federal ministry of transport and digital infrastructure (BMVI) commissioned Stuttgart-based planning and consultancy company Drees & Sommer SE together with the Stuttgart institute of transport science (Verkehrswissenschaftlichen Institut Stuttgart GmbH – VWI) to compile a study on the “urban and transport planning integration of urban cable car projects”. The desired result will be a guideline for the “implementation of urban cable cars as a part of local public transport”, which should be available in two years’ time.