URBAN CABLEWAYS
Cableways and mountain railways are not only used in the winter sports industry. They’ve also become a practical means of transportation in cities, which is why we decided to launch SI Urban Magazine. Here we focus on the various topics that are relevant to the urban sector, which are sorted into the categories city, tourism and airport. Each of them will provide you with exciting news about technology, maintenance & service, security, surveillance, city and landscape planning and much more. Innovations, new types of projects and optimal solutions from all over the world should encourage reflection, help in finding ideas and reveal new opportunities.
The instruments for the recovery of urban cable cars
Urban cable cars are usually equipped with an integrated evacuation concept in which the cabins are brought into the station in the event of an emergency. However, operators should also rely on human recovery teams for safety. These require cable carriages to get from the supports to the cabins. The Swiss recovery specialist IMMOOS has recently expanded its product range for this purpose.
Transport Forum: sustainability and decarbonisation
This year, once again, Forum Verkehr: PSO & ÖPNV (the public service and local public transport forum) was held in Vienna. Here, representatives from the public and private transport sector meet and discuss the future of mobility. Every year, the focus is on different, current topics. In 2022, it was therefore all about fuel prices, future mobility and the path of decarbonisation.
A boost in the appeal of local public transport
The city of Bochum, a large city in the Ruhr metropolitan region, has a large shopping centre, the Ruhrpark, without good connections to the city centre. A group of voters wants to change this with an urban cable car.
A long planned project is now taking shape
Urban cable cars are becoming increasingly popular in Europe. Growing traffic problems and the demand for sustainable transport can even be heard in Prague, where a new cable car project is being developed.
Master plan and amended law
The independent city in the Ruhr region has been considering traffic-calming measures for some time. Hendrik Wüst, Prime Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia now brings the urban cable car transport system into the discussion.
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.
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.
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).
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.