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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.
Hope for Georgetown!?
The District of Columbia has allocated $10 million to acquire a half-acre plot of land near the Exorcist Steps, reports the Washington Business Journal. A cable car station could be built on top of it.
Test phase started in Haifa
In mid-August, the Haifa cable car in Israel transported passengers for the first time. The ride was part of the test phase of the line in Haifa, which is scheduled to open on 10 October.
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.
Autonomous urban ropeway
As part of its endeavours to come up with efficient solutions for developing an aerial transport network in Dubai, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French mobility specialist MND.
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.
Cable car for road workers
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to install a temporary cable car between the north and south sides of the Msikaba Bridge Project on the N2 Wild Coast Road.
Cable Car study for greater Innsbruck area
Urban cable car lines have been tested around the Austrian city of Innsbruck. One of them is promising.
1st German Cable Car Day #urban becomes Cable Car World
Actually, the Ropeway Day was supposed to take place in Essen on 18 and 19 June. Together with the Innovation Festival, interested people could have entered into an exchange. Unfortunately, due to the cancellation of the Innovation Festival by Corona, the 1st German Ropeway Day #urban cannot be held either.