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.
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]
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!
Buslist] you will find several of these cable driven systems in intra airport service, Pittsburg comes to mind!
Mexico City uses one at the airport too.
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.
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.
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.
The link wasn't posted...
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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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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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