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- Title
Solutions for increasing the capacities of cable cars.
- Authors
Težak, Sergej; Lep, Marjan
- Abstract
Cableways have some potential to be used in urban public transportation, particularly uni-directional aerial cable cars with circulating cabins, called gondolas. They have several advantages, but two major problems must be solved: the capacity and the operating speed are not competitive when compared to other means of urban mass transport because of boarding procedures and slowing down and accelerating on intermediate stations. In this paper constructional solutions are presented. Boarding takes place on at least two platforms; these could be on the same level or on separate levels. At intermediate stations certain cabins are diverted to the extra platform while the majority of cabins travel with unreduced speed. Following this constructional approach, the nominal capacity of gondolas could be doubled while increasing the operational travel speed on lines with lot of intermediate stops.
- Subjects
CABLE railroads; GONDOLAS; PUBLIC transit; AERIAL tramways; GEOMETRIC modeling
- Publication
Journal of Sustainable Development of Transport & Logistics, 2019, Vol 4, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
2520-2979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14254/jsdtl.2019.4-1.4