TOURISM
Cable cars as tourist attractions in cities: News and updates on SI Magazine.
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.
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.
Record usage for London cable car
Viral videos ensured that Emirates Air Line had its best day in three years.
Câble A to hover over Val-de-Marne in 2025
Ile-De-France Mobilités and the ropeway manufacturer Doppelmayr, have recently signed a EUR 110 million contract to build a new public ropeway route.
Why a cable car in urban space
India's calls for urban transport solutions are getting louder and louder. In the north-eastern part of the country, there has been a trend towards urban cable cars in recent years.
Settlement project in Switzerland checks 3rd level
Some possibilities for a suitable mobility concept between Zuchwil (CH) and Solothurn main station (CH) were already being examined. But the suitable one was not there yet. But that is now a thing of the past. The solution is in the air.
Interview: ,,The level of strain is too low!”
In an interview with SI Urban, Swiss public transport association (VÖV) Director Ueli Stückelberger talks about the varied potential of urban and rural cable cars in his country and where he stands on specific projects.
Barrier-free: Urban cable cars for all
Worldwide, there are more than a billion people with disabilities. That is over 15 percent of the entire global population – a figure that will continue to rise along with demographic change. Barrier-free transport is therefore all the more important. (Urban) cable cars can play a part here, if certain issues are considered. SI Urban discussed this with Frank Lackner, board member of the international initiative for the interests of wheelchair users, INTERROLLI.
Inauen-Schätti supplies self-service cable cars where space is limited
Experienced Swiss cable car manufacturer INAUEN-SCHÄTTI specialises in the development and installation of complex two-cable aerial tramways. The extremely compact cable car system allows access to difficult sites, such as residential areas, wide valleys or rock faces, and thus opens up urban spaces, viewpoints, beaches and more – even with self-service if desired.
Data are the new oil
Zeros and ones will shape our future and mean that even travel by public transport becomes an individual experience – at least, that is the plan. But how will it actually work in practice?
Guranteed to be safe
Cable cars are one of the safest modes of transport in existence. So that this safety can be guaranteed even in the rare event of a fault on the cable car, IMMOOS develops installation-specific rescue systems and concepts. However, IMMOOS is the competent professional not only for rescue systems but also for permanently mounted personal safety equipment and personal protective equipment, so that employee safety is guaranteed at all times. IMMOOS ist aber nicht nur der kompetente Profi für Bergungssysteme, sondern auch für festmontierte Personensicherungen und persönliche Schutzausrüstungen, sodass auch die Sicherheit der Mitarbeiter jederzeit gewährleistet ist.
“A trial balloon for the big solution!”
Urban tourist cable cars can be a blueprint for everyday urban installations, cable car planner Stephan Salzmann is convinced. In an interview with SI, the expert talks about the purpose of excursion lines, the questions that initiators need to ask and the existing success factors.