United States: Expensive skiing?
US ski resorts are facing rising prices – and falling customer numbers. How sustainable is the current business model?
Russia: Skiing at home
The weak rouble is allowing tourists in Russia to ski cheaply and locals to practise winter sports more at home.
Digitalisation: Are tentire countries become smart?
Much is made of smart cities but who thinks about the rural regions?
CO2 and noise: Cable cars have the best energy and eco-balance
Even with a high transport capacity, urban cable cars display low energy demand. This is demonstrated in studies by German urban planner Frieder Kremer in his book “Innovation Seilbahn” (Innovation Cable Car). The following is an extract from his publication with a few editorial amendments (TU Berlin [Berlin Institute of Technology] 2015: p. 44).
The optimal: When does a cable car make sense?
Urban cable cars are an increasingly common topic in research and science. The book “Innovation Seilbahn” (Innovation Cable Car) by Frieder Kremer is one example of this. In it, the urban and regional planner has written – among other things – about transport technology optimisation and the application possibilities of cable cars or in a nutshell: when does an urban cable car actually make sense? The following is an extract from his publication with a few editorial amendments (TU Berlin 2015: pp. 36 – 40).
Public transport: Moving more than ,,just,, people
The artist Christoph Niemann presents his theory on how to bring people from their cars to public transport.