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History
Cable drawn transport has been known of since at least 250 B.C. and received much attention during the industrial revolution. During said period of time several new methods were thought of and implemented including: the use of steel cable to allow for greater load support and larger systems. funicular railways were instituted in San Francisco in 1872 and as attention grew, aerial tramways  became a greater focus shortly after but only coming into commercial use for passengers in the 1900s. More recent developments are being classified under the type of track that their design is based upon. In 1868 the Westside and Yonkers railway came into operation according to Andrea Marocchi. After the success of this operation, several other projects were initiated in New Zealand and Chicago. The social climate around pollution is allowing for a shift back to utilization of cable transport from cars due to their advantages. However for many years they were a niche form of transportation used primarily in difficult-to-operate conditions for cars (such as on ski slopes as lifts). Now that Cable Transport Projects (CTP) are on the incline the social effects are beginning to become more significant.

Category: Transport History

Social Effect
There are a few notable advantages to using cable transport including:  Electric drive in a main drive station Lightweight carriers  High safety  Reduced operator number  No influence of the carrier- runway friction coefficient    Intrinsic safety against carrier collision along the line 

Comparison with other transport types
When these are offset against the advantages of using other modes of transport such as trains or cars, the volume of people to transport over a period of time and the start-up cost of the project must be considered. While personal vehicle have access to an entire road network the project may be out-with this network itself. If it is out-with this network then it may be more viable to use a CTP to link it to the road. More remote places like mountainous regions and ski slopes may be more difficult to link the road network into and so a CTP is a much easier approach as they don’t require individual personal vehicles to be designed to cope with these extreme conditions. They also don’t usually require huge invasive changes to the local environment. The use of Cable Transport is not limited to such rural locations as skiing resorts; it can be used in urban development areas. Their uses in urban areas include funiculars funicular railways and gondola lifts and  aerial tramways. Category: Transport Social Effect

Safety
Although Cable Transport technology has advanced to cope with various weather conditions, there are many cases where accidents still occur. However it still experiences the fewest number of injuries, deaths, etc per 1000 passengers when compared with other forms of transports according to the GondolaProject. This is a further advantage of their use as public transport despite their limitations in capacity. Cable Cars experienced the lowest number of accidents, injuries and deaths in Switzerland during 2008-2009 according to the gondolaproject. Category:Transport Safety