Three lines with a total length of 14 kilometres and 18 stations would hover over the city. According to Ulrich Briem, one of the supervising professors, this 10-person single-cable circulating ropeway could transport up to 3,000 people per hour and direction.

Last year, the project already won an award for its approach to resolving many transport problems. Prof. Ulrich Briem explains: “Urban cable cars have several advantages in comparison with other modes of transport.

These include, for example, an exclusive track and therefore independence from other transport users.” The city of Regensburg is open to the proposal but still needs to examine all the pros and cons in detail.

The rival project, a light railway through Regensburg, would have a substantially greater cost of acquisition than the cable car. Nonetheless, it currently remains unclear which or indeed whether one of these projects will be implemented.