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Aerobus
Aerobus is a self-propelled electrically powered bus-like vehicle riding on a suspended overhead cable. The cable arrangement, similar to a suspension bridge, allows for long spans of up to 600 metres between pylons. The Aerobus system was invented in the late 1960s by Gerhard Mueller of the GMD Mueller aerial lift company in Switzerland. The patents to Aerobus are currently owned by Aerobus International Ltd. of Houston, Texas, United States. Installations * 1970 – First test track in Schmerikon (Switzerland) * 1975 – Test track sold and moved to Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada) where it stayed in operation until 1992. * 1974 New test track in Dietlikon (Switzerland). * 1975 Temporary installation in Mannheim (Germany) with 8 cars and 2.2 million people transported in six months. * 1992 (not installed) - awarded Phase I planning study funding for Milwaukee County, (Wisconsin) Regional Medical Center. * 2000 (not installed)– Chinese city of Chongqing awards a contract to Aerobu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Aerobus is a self-propelled electrically powered bus-like vehicle riding on a suspended overhead cable. The cable arrangement, similar to a suspension bridge, allows for long spans of up to 600 metres between pylons. The Aerobus system was invented in the late 1960s by Gerhard Mueller of the GMD Mueller aerial lift company in Switzerland. The patents to Aerobus are currently owned by Aerobus International Ltd. of Houston, Texas, United States. Installations * 1970 – First test track in Schmerikon (Switzerland) * 1975 – Test track sold and moved to Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada) where it stayed in operation until 1992. * 1974 New test track in Dietlikon (Switzerland). * 1975 Temporary installation in Mannheim (Germany) with 8 cars and 2.2 million people transported in six months. * 1992 (not installed) - awarded Phase I planning study funding for Milwaukee County, (Wisconsin) Regional Medical Center. * 2000 (not installed)– Chinese city of Chongqing awards a contract to Aerobus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2020 population of 309,119 inhabitants. The city is the cultural and economic centre of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, Germany's seventh-largest metropolitan region with nearly 2.4 million inhabitants and over 900,000 employees. Mannheim is located at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar in the Kurpfalz (Electoral Palatinate) region of northwestern Baden-Württemberg. The city lies in the Upper Rhine Plain, Germany's warmest region. Together with Hamburg, Mannheim is the only city bordering two other federal states. It forms a continuous conurbation of around 480,000 inhabitants with Ludwigshafen am Rhein in the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the other side of the Rhine. Some nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milwaukee County
Milwaukee County is located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 939,489, down from 947,735 in 2010. It is both the most populous and most densely populated county in Wisconsin, and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, 45th most populous county nationwide; Milwaukee, its eponymous county seat, is also the most populous city in the state. The county was created in 1834 as part of Michigan Territory and organized the following year. Milwaukee County is the most populous county of the Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wisconsin, Waukesha-West Allis, Wisconsin, West Allis, WI Milwaukee metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as of the Milwaukee-Racine, Wisconsin, Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (See Milwaukee metropolitan area). Uniquely among Wisconsin counties, Milwaukee County is completely incorporated (i.e.: no part of the county has the Town form of local government - see Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cable Cars In Switzerland
Cable may refer to: Mechanical * Nautical cable, an assembly of three or more ropes woven against the weave of the ropes, rendering it virtually waterproof * Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a helix ** Arresting cable, part of a system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands ** Bowden cable, a mechanical cable for transmitting forces * Rope generally, especially a thick, heavy ("cable laid") variety Transmission * Electrical cable, an assembly of one or more wires which may be insulated, used for transmission of electrical power or signals ** Coaxial cable, an electrical cable comprising an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, coated or surrounded by a tubular conducting shield ** Power cable, a cable used to transmit electrical power ** Submarine communications cable, a cable laid on the sea bed to carry telecommunication signals between land-based stations * Fiber-optic cable, a cable c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
