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BART's new Airport link - Cable Driven?

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BART's new Airport link - Cable Driven?
Posted by sandyhookken on Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:29 PM

A video on BART's website shows their new connection to the Oakland Airport in operation. From what I saw on the video, the cars appear to be powered by cables. Can anyone clarify this, and , if confirmed, is this a new cable car system?

 

I apologize for not including links: my computer is really fighting me today.

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Posted by 081552 on Sunday, November 23, 2014 7:36 PM

Here's the quick Wikipedia blurb on the system.

 

However, as an AGT system as opposed to a rapid transit one, it does not utilise existing BART rolling stock and it is not physically connected with existing BART tracks. Instead it has its own fleet of automated guideway transit (AGT) vehicles that operate on fixed guideways and are cable-drawn. The guideways and Cable Liner vehicles were built by DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car. The line is designed to have an approximate headway of 4.5 minutes and to complete a one-way trip in approximately 8 minutes, with an on-time performance of more than 99.5%.[3][4]

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Posted by Buslist on Sunday, November 23, 2014 9:47 PM

081552

Here's the quick Wikipedia blurb on the system.

 

However, as an AGT system as opposed to a rapid transit one, it does not utilise existing BART rolling stock and it is not physically connected with existing BART tracks. Instead it has its own fleet of automated guideway transit (AGT) vehicles that operate on fixed guideways and are cable-drawn. The guideways and Cable Liner vehicles were built by DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car. The line is designed to have an approximate headway of 4.5 minutes and to complete a one-way trip in approximately 8 minutes, with an on-time performance of more than 99.5%.[3][4]

 

 

you will find several of these cable driven systems in intra airport service, Pittsburg comes to mind! 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, November 23, 2014 9:55 PM

Buslist
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you will find several of these cable driven systems in intra airport service, Pittsburg comes to mind! 

 

 
How about cincinatti
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Posted by rdamon on Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:10 PM

Mexico City uses one at the airport too.

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Posted by timz on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:15 PM

Cable cars like in San Francisco clamp on to the moving cable, then release it when they want to stop. The car stops, but the cable continues to run at 9 mph (?) constantly. The OAK tram doesn't work like that-- when the car stops, the cable stops.

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Posted by dls0706 on Monday, December 1, 2014 6:41 PM

The Pittsburgh Airport people mover is not cable driven.  It is the Bombardier (previously Westinghouse) system that receives power from an energized rail similar to a subway or metro system.  Airports in Tampa, Las Vegas, Orlando, Atlanta, Seattle and Singapore, among many others, use the Bombardier system.    

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Posted by Buslist on Monday, December 1, 2014 10:45 PM

dls0706

The Pittsburgh Airport people mover is not cable driven.  It is the Bombardier (previously Westinghouse) system that receives power from an energized rail similar to a subway or metro system.  Airports in Tampa, Las Vegas, Orlando, Atlanta, Seattle and Singapore, among many others, use the Bombardier system.    

 

 

yup been through too many airports, Cincinnati is what I had in mind. Cable systems also in the Twin Cities and Narita, as will as Mexico City but haven't experienced that one. One replaced a mag lev in the UK Birmingham IIRC.

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Posted by carnej1 on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:37 AM

081552

Here's the quick Wikipedia blurb on the system.

 

However, as an AGT system as opposed to a rapid transit one, it does not utilise existing BART rolling stock and it is not physically connected with existing BART tracks. Instead it has its own fleet of automated guideway transit (AGT) vehicles that operate on fixed guideways and are cable-drawn. The guideways and Cable Liner vehicles were built by DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car. The line is designed to have an approximate headway of 4.5 minutes and to complete a one-way trip in approximately 8 minutes, with an on-time performance of more than 99.5%.[3][4]

 

The link wasn't posted...

 

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Posted by MikeF90 on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:59 PM

A quick Wikipedia search reveals the wierd title and URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_to_Oakland_International_Airport

BART's website is http://www.bart.gov

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Posted by MICHAEL WALSH on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:46 AM

Birmingham, England, has a cable-driven airport to railway station link.

When first built, it was a magnetic levitation line.

Back to the future with cable traction?

Micahel J. Walsh, Ireland.

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