Doppelmayr Cable Cars Wins Another High-Profile Bid in the US – The Austrian-based company celebrates its largest contract in company history
January 3, 2011 by Anja Knorr
The top management of Doppelmayr Cable Cars (DCC) flew in from Austria for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in Oakland. Construction of the new automated 3.1-mile-long people mover that will provide convenient service between Oakland’s airport and the public transportation hub at the Oakland Coliseum, is scheduled to be completed by 2014. Traveling at a maximum speed of 31 miles per hour, the bi-directional system will initially consist of four trains of three cars each and will carry 1,492 people per hour per direction.
This new contract is DCC’s largest single contract to date as well as that of its 118 year-old parent company, which is the world’s leader in Cable Transit. Competing with Bombardier, Mitsubishi, and Poma/Leitner for the intensely sought-after $ 361 M contract, DCC earned the BART project with its proven advantages and outstanding record, offering the most cost efficient and environmentally responsible solution. In addition, Doppelmayr was awarded a $100 M, 20-year operations and maintenance contract for the system.
DCC and its civil construction and design partner, Flatiron/Parsons Joint Venture, started with the design, engineering and mobilization in November, shortly after the contract was signed on September 23, 2010. It is the third cable car contract for DCC in the US. There are already two DCC cable liner shuttle systems operating in Las Vegas at MGM and Mandalay Bay. – gw/ps
The Doppelmayr looks a lot like an upside-down Schwebebahn! (Wuppertal has a monorail system, where the train hangs from the rail above it.. 'Schwebe' means 'Balance' - the train balances on one track!)
ReplyDeleteThe Doppelmayr looks more like a normal train, but in the picture the support beams reminded me of the Schwebebahn.
-HL.S
i like the different forms of transportation they offer
ReplyDeleteEs ist gut wir neu Verkehrs haben.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting because it is like many types of transport tation put into one machine. What I mean by that is its like a trian, but it is the same sort of shape as a trolly rather then a trian and it moves above the streets rather then under them.
ReplyDeleteI have been on one of these in San Fransisco they are quite intresting because you are using an electrefied rail as a way of transportation.
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