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Anton Seeber, The Renaissance of the Cableway

"The Renaissance of the Cableway" is an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of cable-drawn passenger transportation systems in the city. It comprises the areas of history, technology, architecture, and urban and mobility planning. Brief, informative texts, info-graphics, and numerous photos do more than just offer a behind-the-scenes view of urban cableways – they also make the hardcover coffee-table book an experience for the senses.

Around the world, a great challenge faces municipal authorities and transportation services today: satisfying the need for mobility while at the same time both being budget-conscious and environmentally conscientious. Accomplishing these goals requires both top quality planning and all suitable means of transport. In that vein, cable-propelled transport systems are playing an increasingly important role. Just like buses or streetcars, the urban cableway fulfills very specific requirements for mobility. And just like those other vehicles, it has its advantages and limitations.

In contrast to the automobile, whose history, operation, and general philosophy are familiar even to average laypeople, the knowledge of cableway technology is at best limited for most people. It is for that reason that this book will illuminate the subject of urban cableways from a variety of aspects, with the goal of making it possible for readers to comprehensively evaluate this mode of transportation that is so rich in tradition yet suddenly so modern.

In this book, you will experience a large variety of cableways that transport people both for their jobs and for leisure time activities. In the vaults of stations, huge electric motors make massive rotations, pulling cars attached to kilometers of cables from station to station. Architects design stations with futuristic appearances, transit authorities handle the design and equipping of the cars, and municipal authorities, through the use of relatively minor actions, are able to achieve broad-reaching improvements in transportation that in turn lead to a better quality of life for their citizens.

This book will carry the reader into the fascinating world of cableways. It will show that this time-honored, universally implemented means of local transportation has a tremendous future.

Anton Seeber, The Renaissance of the Cableway (ed. 2010: english, german, italian)
Innovative Urban Solutions from Leitner Technologies
Innovative städtische Personentransportsysteme von Leitner Technologies
Innovativi sistemi di trasporto urbano di Leitner Technologies
Funicular • Automated People Mover • MiniMetro • Aerial tramway
144 p • 30,5 x 24,5 cm, 40 Euro
ISBN: 978-88-6069-006-7

Anton Seeber, The Renaissance of the Cableway (ed. 2011: english, french, spanish)
Innovative Urban Transportation Systems from Leitner and Poma
Les moyens de transport urbains innovants de Leitner et Poma
Innovadores sistemas de transporte urbano de Leitner y Poma
Funicular • Automated People Mover • MiniMetro • Aerial tramway
144 p • 30,5 x 24,5 cm, 40 Euro
ISBN: 978-88-6069-007-4