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[Peter]

Doppelmayr has announced 3 new 3S (tri-cable gondola) lifts for the 2014 Olympics. One of them will carry both people and cars! Also the highest capacity ropeway in the world and longest 3S.

"Olympic Village Stage 1"
Length: 1,690 m (5,545 feet)
Capacity: 4,500 pph per direction
Ride Time: 5.5 min
Cabins: 28 - 30 passenger cabins
Car carriers: 13
Towers: 3

"Olympic Village Stage 2"
Length: 1,410 m (4,626 feet)
Capacity: 4,500 pph per direction
Ride Time: 4.9 min
Cabins: 25 - 30 passenger cabins
Car carriers: 12
Towers: 3

"Gazprom"
Length: 5,383 m (17,661 feet)
Capacity: 3,000 pph per direction
Ride Time: 11.3 min
Cabins: 43 - 30 passenger cabins
Towers: 5

[liftmech]

Guess the third one is corporate-sponsored-- isn't Gazprom a large oil company?

[Bogong]

If that report is correct, the tower spacing on the Gazprom gondola is awesome. Only 5 intermediate towers on 5,383 metre long lift, means a 900 metre (2,950 feet) spacing between towers!

I reckon it will need the thickest steel cable ever used on an aerial ropeway?

[vonroll101]

Did I understand that correctly?CARS on a 3S system?Just think in 1991 when Vonroll built the 1st 3S system that it would change the industry of aerial ropeways

[Peter]

Doppelmayr built a Funitel for cars a few years back. It operates at VW's factory in Bratislava, Slovakia.

[Aussierob]

Our 3s will carry just over 2100kg per cabin, so most cars would be not be a problem for it to carry.