. . . the chance of experiencing a fatality or injury while riding a cable system at a ski hill is lower than the while skiing itself. Enjoy the slopes!
For the longest time, there’s been no consensus on what to call cable transit technology. With the increased usage of Cable-Propelled Transit (CPT), however, that seems to be changing. It’s important to note the difficulty of researching any topic that has so many names given to it. That’s why a single, universal term is what’s...
(For those of you not statistically or mathematically inclined, you’ll probably want to skip this post) PPHPD is an acronym for persons per hour per direction and is a great tool for calculating offered capacity of a transit line. Unfortunately, it’s not a term that has any sort of mainstream usage or understanding and that...
How do you find out about something if you don’t know what to call it? Easy: You don’t. For the longest time, cable had no clear name and that made research efforts next to impossible. As I’ve pointed out, the sheer volume of terms used to describe Cable-Propelled Transit (CPT) was preposterous and none conformed...
Sometimes people want to answer complex questions when most people looking for answers just want the basics. When I first began this work, there was one really basic question about Cable-Propelled Transit (CPT) that dogged me and no one could answer it. It was a question that also dogged the think tank that first sponsored...