Italian experience for the UK?

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Learning from experience elsewhere in the world - I wonder if something like this would be useful to a city like Cambridge, where they love to try out innovative technologies.

https://www.amt.genova.it/amt/trasporto-multimodale/ascensori/ascensore-montegalletto/

[stuving]

Learning from experience elsewhere in the world - I wonder if something like this would be useful to a city like Cambridge, where they love to try out innovative technologies.

https://www.amt.genova.it/amt/trasporto-multimodale/ascensori/ascensore-montegalletto/

Apart from the vertical bit, which seems a bit superfluous in Cambridge!

This video makes it all a bit easier to understand.

[stuving]

There are other approaches to 2-D lifts. ThyssenKrupp are promoting one using linear motors (look mum no wires!), which they have been demonstrating in their test tower in Rottweil*. There's a video of that too, which shows it working (and there's more in their sales material online too).  I'm not convinced by that as a solution - it just looks wrong, somehow. No doubt other makers are also working on similar ideas - and in the case of Kone, their test facility goes the other way: it's in an old mine shaft.

*Yes, of course it's where Rottweilers come from.