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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!
The new belt brand for ski resorts
The Andorrian company Covima Funibelt Power developed a special belt for all types of cable transport systems, capable of withstanding extreme temperature ranges, high resistance capacity and any type of climatology.
Longest ropeway in the world
With a length of 10.55 kilometres, the Cablebus 2 installation in Mexico City is the longest urban ropeway in the world.
Luxury lodge for employees
Innovative measure against the staff shortage: The 4-star nature hotel Chesa Valisa in Kleinwalsertal invested three million euros in the construction of luxurious staff lodges.
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.
Pistenbully 600 Polar Greentech – The new model for the whole year!
KÄSSBOHRER is ushering in a new era by rolling out the PistenBully 600 Polar GreenTech – a vehicle for snowy and non-snowy seasons alike – and the first GreenTech model with a winch!
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!"
Success factors in the alpine summer
Where does the development of the alpine summer point? What lessons can be learned from the first Covid 19 summer for the second? Klaus Grabler from Manova in an SI interview.