Online: Urban sustainable mobility
If well planned, cities can be engines of economic and social development. However nowadays many urban areas battle with everyday traffic. New ways to solve those problems need to be found. The online Classroom initiative by UN-Habitat and its partners want to inform people and show them new ways to sustainable urban mobility.
Mexico City celebrates urban ropeway
The almost 10-kilometre-long Doppelmayr/Garaventa ropeway connects directly to the city's largest transport hub and thus serves as a central transport system. For Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Padro, however, the urban ropeway has much greater potential.
How do you connect the core city and the park city?
The question of connectivity has preoccupied Donauwörth (a large district town in Germany) for decades. Time and again, the idea of an urban cable car came up on the decision-makers' agenda. With the help of an international building exhibition, this system could now become reality.
From the idea to the prototype
The upBUS is a hybrid mobility concept between a cable car and an autonomous bus service. The aerial tramway is to cover highly frequented routes in the inner city area, while the buses take over the fine distribution in the suburbs. A team from the RWTH Institutes of High Frequency Electronics (HFE) and Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Construction (SLA) were in Wolfurt, Austria, for a five-day trial to test, in particular, the changeover process in which the cabin is transferred from the chassis to the cable car guide. "With the test we wanted to show that it is possible to combine the advantages from the bus and cable car transport systems," says HFE employee Eduard Heidebrecht. "A complete success!"
Floriade cable car already built
The cable car of Floriade Expo 2022 is already built a year before the international horticultural exhibition starts in the Dutch city of Almere. Now it receives the first guests during the Floriade Preview.
Cablebus 2 gondola lift in Mexico City ready for operation
By the end of 2021, 24 kilometers of ropeways by LEITNER will be operating in the region.