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Cable cars and cableways function as an efficient means of transport in an urban setting. Find out more on our blog!
Is the cable car necessary?
In Regensburg (Germany) the use of urban cable cars is a university topic. Together with a group of students, two professors have developed a cable car plan for the city. This proposal was publicly debated in March.
Dieter Röser: The man for the cable
For 15 years Dieter Röser has installed cable car cables, station roofs, bridges and much more for INAUEN-SCHÄTTI. In this interview he talks about notable orders, priorities, and what a kitchen has in common with a cable car.
Top floor main entrance – shopping with BARTHOLET
Cable car systems have long ceased to be limited only to winter operation or even only to the mountains. These efficient systems are also used increasingly frequently in urban areas. Nonetheless, integration of the station building into a shopping centre, such as in Kish (Iran), is something very special.
A cable car for California
Half Moon Bay – a place for surfing, watching huge waves and relaxing in the Californian sun – could soon be accessible by gondola. The city twenty minutes outside San Francisco has massive traffic problems, which could be resolved with a cable car.
Pittsburgh to consider a cable car
Pittsburgh, USA: Regional Transit can begin a more detailed look at one of its most intriguing projects — which could use suspended cable cars — as a result of a federal grant.
Steamboat resort: Wild Blue Gondola installation has started
Heavy equipment has spent the spring clearing the base area and large swaths of trees up on the mountain to make way for the Wild Blue Gondola. The first leg of the gondola is slated to open for the 2022-23 winter season, stretching from Steamboat Square and the base area to Greenhorn Ranch, the new beginner area located near Bashor Bowl.
The french city Toulouse now has an urban 3S cable car
With the longest ropeway in France, Toulouse is moving ahead with high-performance, sustainable mobility. Since May 2022, the metropolis in the south of France has been running Europe’s first urban tri-cable circulating ropeway (3S).
MOUNTAIN PLANET 2022: INDUSTRY ON THE UP
More visitors, more exhibitors, more optimism! As the first major industry trade fair after the coronavirus pandemic, Mountain Planet in Grenoble was impressive.
The urban cable car as a public transport network for Antananarivo
With the exception of shared taxis, Antananarivo has no public transport network and the capital of Madagascar is therefore drowning in congestion. However, two cable cars from POMA will now herald a sustainable mobility revolution.
The digital Cable Car
Whether Luxemburg, Lugano or Freiburg, operators of urban cable cars are increasingly relying on the software Sambesi from REMEC. In so doing, they are following the example of many mountain railways, which have long used Sambesi for all tasks that arise in the operation of a system.
What the public transport is missing
Urban funicular railways as an addition to the public transportation network
Hybrid of ropeways & autonomous driverless transport
Ropeways have already developed into a major solution of modern urban transport in the past years. With the ConnX prototype, LEITNER is now taking a significant step forward and creating unprecedented flexibility in the development of public transport with a unique “hybrid solution”.