Cableways Impact Assessment Study - Final Report - saferail.nl
Cableways Impact Assessment Study - Final Report - saferail.nl
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Risk & Policy Analysts<br />
Austria<br />
According to the BMVIT (nd), Austria has around 3,063 cableways, of which 1,079<br />
are cable cars while the remaining 1,984 are drag lifts. In 2010, 27 new cable car<br />
installations (i.e. excluding new drag lifts the number of which is not known) were<br />
constructed in Austria and this is said to be around the annual average of recent years<br />
(BMVIT, 2011). Table 2.7 sets out the types of cableways which were actually<br />
installed.<br />
Table 2.7: <strong>Cableways</strong> Installed in Austria in 2010 by Type (excl. Drag Lifts)<br />
Type of Cableway<br />
Number of New Installations<br />
Chair lifts<br />
Six-seat (7)<br />
Eight-seat (3)<br />
Gondolas<br />
Monocable (1)<br />
Bicable (14)<br />
Aerial tramway 1<br />
Combined cableway 1<br />
Source: BMVIT (2011)<br />
Italy<br />
According to statistics presented by OITAF (2009) there were 2,294 cableways in<br />
Italy in 2006. More recent data from the Italian Ministero dei Trasporti shows that in<br />
2011 there were 2,190 cableways in Italy, of which there were:<br />
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151 gondola lifts;<br />
863 chair lifts;<br />
95 bi-cable reversible ropeways;<br />
6 bi-cable installations (single or double track rope);<br />
29 funiculars and<br />
1,046 drag lifts.<br />
Data from the publication ‘Quota Neve’ (2012) suggest that 28 new cableways were<br />
installed in Italy in 2011. Of the 28 new cableways installations in 2011:<br />
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32% (9) were gondola lifts;<br />
18% (5) were detachable chairlifts;<br />
21% (6) were fixed-grip chairlifts; and<br />
29% (8) were drag lifts.<br />
Table 2.8 presents the manufacturers of cableways installed in Italy in 2011 and the<br />
number of cableways supplied by each.<br />
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