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Some Typical Urban Requirements in Potential Introduction and Usage of Public Transport Systems of Funiculars or Cable Cars in the Mediterranean or Medieval Centres of European Towns

The organisation of public transport in the Mediterranean and medieval towns requires a special approach and treatment. This aspect of traffic is primarily based on buses, and less on lightrail systems, and even less on trolleybuses. When there are special configuration requirements the offer is sometimes supplemented by funiculars or cable cars. This usually means a connection to a certain upper (uphill) old part of a town or to a neighbouring hill representing a recreation and tourist destination. Regarding the organisation of public transport by funiculars and cable cars, certain special requirements can be classified in the following groups: • urban with ecological and ambient elements ; • configuration ; • economic and financial elements ; • traffic. Naturally, the traffic system has to fulfil its primary purpose, and this is to satisfy the migration requirements of the population, visitors and tourists. Only once the volume of the requirements of this primary purpose have been determined, one can speak of the implementation of the system into the previous three groups of requirements. A completely wrong approach is the one which e.g. attempts to assign a traffic function to a conditionally speaking empty space. The failure in the past to make use of a certain space is not a sufficient condition to dedicate it to the traffic function.

alternative traffic systems; funicular; cable car

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