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MiniMetro is a family of cable propelled automated people mover systems built by HTI Group. The vehicles either run on rails or an air cushion and have either a detachable grip (to the cable) or a fixed grip. Leitner has a
Perugia Minimetrò
People movers Cable car railways in Italy Transport in Umbria Perugia {{Italy-transport-stub
MiniMetro is a family of cable propelled automated people mover systems built by HTI Group. The vehicles either run on rails or an air cushion and have either a detachable grip (to the cable) or a fixed grip. Leitner has a test track
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for the vehicles in Vipiteno. The current maximum capacity of the system is around 8,000 passengers per hour. The latest system installed with the MiniMetro brand was the Miami International Airport eTrain in 2016.
Perugia People Mover
InPerugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part ...
, a stretch with seven stations opened in February 2008 to relieve the inner city of car traffic. It consists of more than 25 vehicles of 5 m each, with a capacity of 25 passengers and a speed of up to per hour. The interval between successive vehicles is around 1.5 minutes. In 2013, the system carried 10,000 passengers per day. Plans exist for a second line.
Similar systems are under consideration in Bolzano
Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third ...
and Copenhagen
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.
Other MiniMetro installations
* SATUOeiras in Oeiras (Portugal
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). Its operations were ceased in 2015
* ''Squaire Metro'' links a car park with The Squaire
The Squaire is an office building in Frankfurt, Germany. It was built between 2006 and 2011 on top of an existing train station ( Frankfurt Airport long-distance station) near Frankfurt Airport. The building is 660 m long, 65 m wide, 45 m hi ...
groundscraper
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, next to the Frankfurt Airport
* ExpressTram
The ExpressTram is an automated people mover system operating at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, in Romulus, Michigan, USA. The driverless system transports passengers along Concourse A of the airport's Edward H. McNamara Terminal, wh ...
at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
* Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport (; ''Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly'') is the principal international airport of Cairo and the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. It serves as the primary hub for Egyptair and Nile Air as well as several other ai ...
People Mover
* MIA e Train at Miami International Airport
Miami International Airport , also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the greater Miami metropolitan area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations, including most c ...
— a MiniMetro people mover to satellite Concourse E, replaces 1980s APM (2016)
* Pisa International Airport is connected to the ''Pisa Centrale'' — the Pisa's main railway station by ''Pisamover'' — yet another people mover under the MiniMetro trade mark.
See also
* Former Poma 2000 inLaon
Laon () is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
History
Early history
The holy district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. ...
, France
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— dismantled in 2016
* Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport Trams
* Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit
* Cable Liner
The Cable Liner is a range of automated people mover products designed by Doppelmayr Cable Car for use at airports, in city centers, intermodal passenger transport connections, park and ride facilities, campuses, resorts and amusement parks. ...
— a competing system from DCC Doppelmayr with mostly larger vehicles
* SK people mover — a similar system with smaller vehicles
* Otis Hovair
Otis Hovair Transit Systems is a type of hovertrain used in low-speed people mover applications. Traditional people mover systems used wheeled vehicles propelled by electric motors or cable traction, the Hovair replaces the wheels with a ho ...
transit systems, for example, Skymetro at Zurich International Airport
* Cable car (also known as ''cable tram'')
References
External links
*Perugia Minimetrò
People movers Cable car railways in Italy Transport in Umbria Perugia {{Italy-transport-stub