Cable Propelled Transit Systems in Urban Areas

摘要

For many decades, cable propelled transit (CPT) systems such as ropeways, aerial tramways or cable cars have been used to traverse challenging topographical areas and transport goods and passengers from point to point. However, the installation of ropeways was mainly focused on ski resorts, theme parks or some temporary installations at events such as large outdoor exhibitions. Although manufacturers as well as some few visionary engineers always tried to promote CPT as a cheap and high efficient alternative to other modes of urban public transport, such systems did not appear as public urban transit system until recently. But now, on the one hand, the CBT market changes, since the dominance of the winter tourism market for the installation of ropeways remains static with no foreseeable further growth. On the other hand, nowadays urban gondolas are considered more and more as a transport alternative in urban areas so that even transport science should pay more attention to this type of urban transport.