Citation

Bibal P. J. Adv. Transp. 1993; 27(1): 121-127.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Institute for Transportation, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

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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. The acronym SK comes from the initials of the production company (Soulé) and of the designer (Kermadec). The system is based on small cabins which are circulating on rails and are pulled by a cable at a constant speed. 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-Vallee (near Paris, France) to link a newly-built urban development area and a regional railroad station. An S.K. is also being 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.