DESCRIBE THIS INVITING CITY’S TRANSPORTATION- ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY.
during the 1980s. Shuttle I was dismantled in the mid-1990s. LAS VEGAS, NEV., USA, IS well known for the Strip, the wedding chapels where many Hollywood stars have married and its Elvis impersonators. What is not as widely known is that Las Vegas is home to a relatively large number of small scale A...
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| Summary: | during the 1980s. Shuttle I was dismantled in the mid-1990s. LAS VEGAS, NEV., USA, IS well known for the Strip, the wedding chapels where many Hollywood stars have married and its Elvis impersonators. What is not as widely known is that Las Vegas is home to a relatively large number of small scale Automated People Mover (APM) systems that serve the internal site-circulation needs of resorts. In fact, Las Vegas may be considered the birthplace of contemporary, low-cost, cablepropelled systems designed specifically to serve urban needs in North America. Although cable-propelled systems have their origins in the last century, applications in North America were limited to mining operations, ski slopes and amusement parks until 1977 when a conventional suspended aerial tramway was constructed to connect Manhattan with Roosevelt Island, located in the middle of the East River. 1 However, the first truly urban system to depart from traditional design appeared in 1981 in Las |
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