Overview of Urban Gondolas: Implications and Opportunities for Implementation in Chinese Cities

Chu, Nicholas

doi:10.1061/9780784412442.342

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“…Of particular importance for scientific research of the problem of introducing passenger aerial ropeways into the transport infrastructure of large cities and territories and its implementation for heterogeneous terrain is the task of rational design of transport lines [11]. Currently, there is sufficient experience in the design and construction of urban aerial ropeways in many countries [13][14][15]. Cited in a number of works, for example, [7,16,17], the data on the required amount of financial resources indicate that the construction of ropeways in real urban conditions is a financially costly undertaking.…”

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Designing Supporting Structures of Passenger Ropeways of Minimum Cost Based on Modular Intermediate Towers of Discretely Variable Height

Lagerev

2020

Urban Rail Transit

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Passenger ropeways are a promising alternative for the development of public transport infrastructure in large cities. However, the construction of ropeways has a rather high cost and requires taking into account a significant number of restrictions associated with the features of the existing urban development and the placement of urban infrastructure. The main objective of this research is to develop optimization models that minimize the total cost of modular intermediate towers of a discretely variable height and a rope system due to the optimal placement and selection of the height of these towers, taking into account the features of the surface topography and urban development. The proposed modular principle for the construction of intermediate towers also enables the cost of construction to be further reduced. As a specific example, the design of a ropeway in the city of Bryansk, which has a complex terrain, is considered. The developed models are conveniently used at the initial stage of the design of the ropeway to compare the cost of various options for the location of the ropeway route in order to reduce the risk of error when choosing the least expensive option. The calculation results can serve as a guide for a preliminary assessment of the number and height of intermediate towers, their installation locations on the ground and the characteristics of the cable system.

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Designing Supporting Structures of Passenger Ropeways of Minimum Cost Based on Modular Intermediate Towers of Discretely Variable Height

Lagerev

2020

Urban Rail Transit

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“…Regarding the social impact (Cluster 1), one of the biggest obstacles for urban aerial cable cars is dealing with impacts on the ownership structures of land or the privacy concerns of residents living under or at cable car routes, which has been a stated issue for years but remains predominantly unresearched [5,8,19,25,38,59,60,64,70]. Due to ambivalent findings, there is no general scientific consensus on when systems are perceived as being at a positive or negative distance to existing developments.…”

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Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Flesser

Friedrich

2022

Sustainability

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The overall growth of the world’s population and urbanization lead to rethinking transport planning, further developing the conventional transport systems, and complementing new ones usefully, especially in urban environments. One way to cope with this challenge is to leave behind the already severely saturated urban land use model and move to the third dimension. This includes the use of urban aerial cable cars, which can complement conventional public transport in certain transport relations. Accordingly, this paper aims to answer how the recent, past, or planned implementations of urban aerial cable cars are assessed in the scientific literature, what open research questions need to be answered to enhance the success of transport systems, and what the chances are of cable cars becoming a standard part of transport planners’ repertoires. Following systematic literature review methods, 54 studies from different databases were identified and processed in a multi-stage procedure to provide transparent insight into the relevant literature. The results, especially concerning urban and transport integration, are discussed in detail, emphasizing that cable cars have already partially found their niche, but their role in the urban environment has not yet been sufficiently studied. In conclusion, the study’s originality fills the gap in providing a review of urban aerial cable cars from a transport planning perspective by systematically considering today’s globally available literature.

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Experiences with Aerial Ropeway Transportation Systems in the Urban Environment

Alshalalfah

Shalaby

Dale³

2014

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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Overview of Urban Gondolas: Implications and Opportunities for Implementation in Chinese Cities

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Designing Supporting Structures of Passenger Ropeways of Minimum Cost Based on Modular Intermediate Towers of Discretely Variable Height

Designing Supporting Structures of Passenger Ropeways of Minimum Cost Based on Modular Intermediate Towers of Discretely Variable Height

Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Experiences with Aerial Ropeway Transportation Systems in the Urban Environment

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