Dutch OV-chipkaart. Does it make transit more or less equitable?
A Thought Experiment: You live downtown and you’ve got to travel a distance of 1.5 km, drop off a package and return home. If you lived in Toronto (as I do), the trip would cost you $6.00 round trip by...
View ArticleWhat Can The San Francisco Cable Cars Teach London?
If nothing else, the London Cable Car raises an interesting question: When should a transit line be fully fare-integrated into a transit network and when should it not. For those unfamiliar, an...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From The Pakistan Cable Car Accident?
As we’ve demonstrated before, cable cars, ropeways and gondolas are amongst the safest transit technologies in the world. But that doesn’t mean accidents don’t happen. A few days ago in Pakistan a...
View ArticleMarginal Station vs. Marginal Length Cost
(Note: It’s been a while since I’ve posted on The Gondola Project. It’s been a busy summer with lots of changes to our company and our site. We’ll let you all know about the details in the coming...
View ArticleFair Fares – Maokong Gondola
The Maokong Gondola (Taipei, Taiwan) announced last December its intention to raise fares in the new year. These plans were officially confirmed by the city government in a news release this week....
View ArticleShould Urban Gondolas be Integrated into a Public Transit Network?
In a recent article, a Swiss transportation planning professor from the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, suggested that to maximize its usefulness for passengers, urban gondolas should be...
View ArticleTimang Beach Gondola — World’s Most Exciting and Expensive 30-Second Ropeway...
As early as 250BC, ropeways have been used to transport people and goods across difficult terrain. Even today, as many parts of the world are rapidly modernizing, some places are still reliant on...
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