gondola lift is a means of cable transportation and a type of air lifting that is supported and driven by cables from above. It consists of a steel cable loop that is strung between two stations, sometimes above the intermediate supporting tower. The wires are driven by a propeller in the terminal, which is usually connected to a machine or electric motor. They are often considered sustainable systems because they have a moving rope that circulates around two terminal stations. Depending on the combination of cables used to support and/or hauling and grip types (removable grips vs. fixed hold), the capacity, cost, and functionality of the gondola lifts will differ dramatically. Due to the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine region of Europe, the French name TÃÆ' Â © lÃÆ' Â © cabine is also used in the English context.
Gondola lifts should not be misinterpreted by air tramways because the latter only operates with fixed grips and only back and forth between the two final terminals. Both are types of cable cars.
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Type
Passenger lift
In some systems, the passenger cabin, which can accommodate between two and eight people, is connected to the cable through the spring grip. This grip allows the cab to get away from the wires that move and slow down in the terminal, to allow passengers to rise and fall. The door is almost always automatic and is controlled by a lever on the roof or under that is pushed up or down. The cab is pushed through the terminal either by rotating the tire, or by a chain system. To be accelerated and accelerated from line speeds, the cabins are pushed together with tires that spin faster (or slower) until they reach the terminal's line or velocity. On older installations, gondolas are manually accelerated by the operator. Gondola lifts can have intermediate stops that allow to upload and download in elevators. Example of a lift with three stops, not two standards, the Village Gondola and the Excalibur Gondola at Whistler Blackcomb.
In 1986, Doppelmayr (North America) built the world's first eight-passenger gondola at the Steamboat Ski Resort.
In other systems, the cable slowed intermittently to allow passengers down and boarded the cabin at the station, and to allow people in the car along the route to take photographs, such as the TÃÆ'Ã… © cà © à © Ã,  © Seattle works that offer the view is incredible. to the Mediterranean, the historic Jounieh Bay and the pine forest on an 80% slope where the gondola elevator runs. Such a system is called Pulse Cabin because usually more than one cabin is loaded at the time before the journey begins.
Another type of gondola elevator is a bi-cable gondola, which has one other stationary cable, in addition to the main hauling rope, which helps support the cabin. One of the world's best known examples of this type of elevator is Ngong Ping Cable Car in Hong Kong, Singapore Cable Car, and Mount Serang Gondola in Banff, Canada. The system has the advantage that the strength and properties of stationary cables can be adjusted for each range, which reduces costs. There is also a tri-cable gondola that has two stationary cables that support the cabin. They are different from tramways in the last air consisting of only one or two cabins usually larger, moving up and down, not circulating. Bi-and tri-cable systems provide greater lateral stability that allows the system to operate in higher winds.
The open gondolas, or cabriolet as they are called, are quite rare and quite primitive because they are exposed to the elements. Their cabin is usually a hollow cylinder, open from chest height, with floor and cover on top. They are usually used as village gondolas and for short distances. Examples are the Cabriolets at Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec, Canada, and at the Blue Mountain Ski Resort (summer only, in winter converted into six-man high-speed hammocks.) In Ontario, Canada, The Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah, Mountain Creek, and the new Cabriolet Village at Winter Park Resort in Colorado. Open gondolas can also come in a style similar to gondola pulses, such as Village Gondola at Panorama Ski Resort, British Columbia.
The first gondola built in the United States for a ski resort is located in the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. It was a two-man gondola built in 1957 and a service skier until 1999. The elevator was later dismantled in 2004. The elevator and hut were built by an Italian elevator company: Carlevaro-Savio. One of the longest gondola rides in the world, Gondelbahn Grindelwald-MÃÆ'¤nnlichen, is in Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and connects Grindelwald with MÃÆ'¤nnlichen.
Ropeway conveyor
A ropeway conveyor or ropeway material is essentially a subtype of the gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended.
Ropeway conveyors are usually found around major mining problems, and can be very long. The COMILOG Cableway, which runs from Moanda in Gabon to Mbinda in the Republic of Congo, has a length of more than 75 km. NorsjÃÆ' in cable car in Sweden has a length of 96 km.
In Eritrea, the Italians built the Asmara-Massawa Cableway in 1936, which is 75 km long.
Conveyors can be supported by various forms of power sources: electric motors, internal combustion engines, steam engines, or gravity. Gravity is very common in the problems of mountain mining, and directly employed; the load from the container brought down pulls back empty back to the slope. Gravity can also be used indirectly, where running water is available; a waterwheel supported by gravity working in water, and used to power a cable.
Maps Gondola lift
Urban transport
While gondola lifts are traditionally used for ski resort purposes, in recent years they have found increasing use in urban environments. Cable cars used for urban transit include Metrocable in MedellÃÆ'n, Colombia; Portland Aerial Tram in Portland, Oregon, United States; Metrokable in Caracas, Venezuela; Trolcable in MÃÆ' Â © rida, Venezuela; Cable AÃÆ' Â © reo in Manizales, Colombia; Mi TelefÃÆ' Â © rico in La Paz, Bolivia; Mexicable in the State of Mexico, Mexico; Yenimahalle-? Teleferic entepe in Ankara, Turkey; and Emirates Air Line in London, England. The Metrocable system in Medellin and Caracas is fully integrated with a public transport network that provides passengers the ability to transfer seamlessly to local metro lines.
In terms of the future urban gondola system, TransLink in Metro Vancouver has proposed to build the gondola up to Burnaby Mountain to Simon Fraser University in an announcement in September, 2010. The project is ruled out in 2014, but revived in 2017.
By the end of 2012, a vast air gondola system is proposed for Austin, Texas in an effort to expand mass transit options in the rapidly growing city. Proposals rejected by local transit agents by 2017.
The proposed gondola system in Montreal was eventually rejected by the Old Port of Montreal.
Disney Skyliner is a gondola lift system that was built in 2017 at Walt Disney World in Florida. When completed, the system will connect two theme parks with several Disney-operated hotels.
List of accidents
The National Ski Areas Association reported 0.138 fatalities per 100 million miles transported versus 1.23 for cars.
- October 22, 1979: One person was killed and 17 others injured when two gondolas fell from the Swiss Sky Ride at the Texas State Fair. Winds blowing up to 40 miles per hour caused three cars to collide and two fell in the middle of the match under the wires.
- January 29, 1983: Singapore's Cable Car Disaster, which saw seven people killed when two cabins crashed into the sea after a cable line was hit by a registered oil rig in Panama withdrawn.
- September 5, 2005: Nine people were killed and ten others injured when 750 kg concrete block was accidentally dropped by construction helicopter in SÃÆ'¶lden, Austria. Hundreds must be evacuated from the elevator.
- July 13, 2006: Five people, including a three-year-old girl, were injured after two cable cars collided and one fell to the ground. The accident occurred at Nevis Range, near Fort William in northwest Scotland. There were no casualties and the gondola was considered safe for surgery shortly after the accident.
- February 18, 2007: Gondola car out of cable at Ski Apache in New Mexico and rolled backwards to hit another car. Eight people were involved in the accident but only two suffered minor injuries.
- March 2, 2008: A man falls from a gondola in Chamonix and dies, perhaps after he and one of his friends lean back and break a plexiglass window.
- December 16, 2008: Ten people were injured (nothing serious), and others were stranded after a tower supporting the Excalibur gondola ride on Blackcomb mountain collapsed, at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Whistler, Canada.
- January 31, 2011: A ten-year-old boy crashed 10-15 meters from a gondola in Hafjell, Norway. He suffered minor injuries.
See also
- Air tram line
- Cable carriage
- List of air lift manufacturers
- List of gondola lifts
- Ropeway conveyor
References
External links
Media related to the Gondola lift on Wikimedia Commons
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