| Abstract: | The S.K. people mover has presently been operated for more than six years during each exhibition at Paris - Nord exhibition lot at Villepinte. During two major exhibitions - EXPO'86 at Vancouver, Canada and YEs'90 at Yokohama, Japan - it was operated twelve hours daily during six months in each case with very short night maintenance shifts. The small cable-driven cars carried ten million people quite trouble-free with an availability better than 99.5%. After those installations on exhibition or entertainment sites, a new S.K. system is under construction in Marne-la-Vallée (near Paris, France) to link a newly-built urban development area and a regional railroad station. A S.K. is also to be installed in Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport. Other projects are being studied too. Presently entering a new class of systems, the S.K. people mover features a number of newly-designed components intended to further improve comfort and reliability. |
