Stuttgart region – a cable car for the area?
Intensive car commuter traffic from the suburbs into the city is the main reason for the air quality problems in Stuttgart. City and region Stuttgart are searching for a better weay to connect the suburbs with the capital city of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). A research paper by Florian Wondratschek examines the potential of a cable car for Remstal.
POMAs Life R´Way – How can cable cars become even more sustainable?
Low Impact For Environment Ropeway – abbreviated as LIFE R‘way: That‘s the sustainability initiative of the French cable car manufacturer POMA. Michaël Fauche, Director of Strategy and New Markets, demonstrates how urban projects, in particular, benefit from it in an interview with SI Urban.
Know-how on the rope: The cable car planners Melzer & Hopfner
For over 35 years, the austrian ropeway planning office MELZER & HOPFNER has been one of the most renowned ropeway planners in the Alpine region.
Regensburg – operating scenarios for urban ropeways
Commuters‘ acceptance of urban cable cars is linked to the overall journey time and travelling comfort. In order to take better account of the challenges involved in planning urban cable car networks, the East Bavarian Technical University in Regensburg (Germany) has developed a simulation model.
Cable Cars: ropeways as a sustainable system for urban mobility
Urban ropeway projects by the HTI Group around the globe demonstrate high transport efficiency, resource-saving operation and cost-saving functionality.
Cologne: The “Rheinpendel” as a future-orientated mobility solution
Municipal transport systems are reaching their limits in many places. Traffic jams and overcrowded buses or even inadequate access to peripheral and newly developed areas cause frustration. The urban cable car can provide a remedy here. They are characterised by a fast construction time and minimal land sealing and transport passengers comfortably through traffic jams – as the cable car in Cologne proves.