Georgia – Chiatura – 2020

Urban ropeways (Sanatorium, Lejubani, Naguti, Muxadze)

To retrofit its urban overhead transport system, the city of Chiatura chose POMA. Four small urban ropeways, developed specifically to satisfy the needs in terms of capacity and the constraints regarding distances, have replaced some (very) old Russian ropeways.

product range
Small capacity crosslink gondola lift
Application
Connect – urban link
More about

The project

The city of Chiatura, located in a mountainous valley on the banks of the Kvirila river in Georgia, experienced strong economic growth due to the mining industry in the 1950s. The city chose POMA to retrofit its overhead transport system as part of its urban development plan and also to enhance its identity.

At the peak of its activity, Chiatura had about a hundred small ropeways throughout the valley that could transport both the manganese mine workers and the ore, but also allowed the population to travel to the various districts of the city.

Out of the 100 or so industrial and urban ropeways, 24 were exclusively for passenger transport and only eight are still in operation, with four being replaced by POMA.

These four urban ropeway lines (Sanatorium, Lezhubani, Naguti, Mukhadze) connect the city centre to the outskirts, at a speed of 6 m/s. Each cabin is designed to carry up to 15 passengers with the intention of making this the main means of transport for the local population. More than 10,000 people a day are expected to use the ropeway.

The city, which is becoming more aware of its potential as a tourist destination, also hopes its visitors will experience a really enjoyable excursion over the city.

 

 

Discover

Urban ropeways

Technical
specifications

panneau

Lines

4

Longueur

Total length

3500 m

Maximal elevation

180 m

Capacity

up to 300 pphpd

Date

Speed

6 m/s

Number of cabins

8

Number of passengers per cabinssagers par véhicule

15

nombre de Passagers par jour

People per day

10 000

nombre de stations

Number of stations

8

POMA, innovation

for the project

1st small 2s ropeway • crosslink ropeway
urban by POMA

A new urban ropeway range has been developed for this project, the main purpose of which is to cover short distances with only a few towers.

A restrictive
urban environment

The teams on site had to be resourceful when installing the towers and when rolling out the tensioned ropes over homes, electric lines, railway tracks, roads and rivers.

ultra-modern 
stations

The urban ropeway line retrofit project also involved a very distinctive station design. All the architectural work was conducted by Georgian Architects and all the stations are typically Georgian in style. A far cry from the image of the old dilapidated ropeways, the stations are futuristic, unstructured and very colourful.

Chiatura,
the City of Ropeways

 

Chiatura, a small mining city, was a pioneer in urban ropeway transportation. It was home to the first-ever passenger ropeway in the USSR and boasted the largest ratio of ropeway transportation lines per inhabitant. These ropeways, mostly now abandoned, also attract many tourists to this city in Georgia.

installation images

Urban ropeways of Chiatura

They talk about it

Chiatura is a small mining town in Georgia, where the entire economy has been built around manganese extraction for over a century. The city is built at the bottom of a steep valley, and residential quarters stretch out over the foothills.

The 4 gondola lifts produced by POMA all make it possible to reach outlying residential areas from the city center and replace mono-way bi-cable devices, that is to say with a single cabin in back and forth on a carrier cable, equipped with cabins from another age, when Chiatura was the laboratory of Soviet aerial cable transport.

The 4 cable car produced come from a new range of products, between cable car and gondola, simple and efficient configured around the components of our ecosystem: tubular pylons and “standard single-cable” line equipment (pylons, gangways, jib cranes) and cabins DIAMOND 15 seats equipped with communication with the control post, and night lighting.

Responsable ingénierie système

Damien Lanier
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More than 8,000 passengers will board the cabins of the Téléo tricable ropeway every day. Part of the Toulouse Agglomeration’s transport network, it crosses a river and travels over a hill to link three major hubs of activity in the south of Toulouse: the University Cancer Institute, Rangueil Hospital and Paul Sabatier University.

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Georgia – Chiatura – 2020

Urban ropeways (Sanatorium, Lejubani, Naguti, Muxadze)

To retrofit its urban overhead transport system, the city of Chiatura chose POMA. Four small urban ropeways, developed specifically to satisfy the needs in terms of capacity and the constraints regarding distances, have replaced some (very) old Russian ropeways.

product range
Detachable gondola lift
Application
Access and Ski area
More about

The project

The city of Chiatura, located in a mountainous valley on the banks of the Kvirila river in Georgia, experienced strong economic growth due to the mining industry in the 1950s. The city chose POMA to retrofit its overhead transport system as part of its urban development plan and also to enhance its identity.

At the peak of its activity, Chiatura had about a hundred small ropeways throughout the valley that could transport both the manganese mine workers and the ore, but also allowed the population to travel to the various districts of the city.

Out of the 100 or so industrial and urban ropeways, 24 were exclusively for passenger transport and only eight are still in operation, with four being replaced by POMA.

These four urban ropeway lines (Sanatorium, Lezhubani, Naguti, Mukhadze) connect the city centre to the outskirts, at a speed of 6 m/s. Each cabin is designed to carry up to 15 passengers with the intention of making this the main means of transport for the local population. More than 10,000 people a day are expected to use the ropeway.

The city, which is becoming more aware of its potential as a tourist destination, also hopes its visitors will experience a really enjoyable excursion over the city.

 

 

Technical
specifications

panneau

Lines

4

Longueur

Total length

3500 m

Maximal elevation

180 m

Capacity

up to 300 pphpd

Date

Speed

6 m/s

Number of cabins

8

Number of passengers per cabinssagers par véhicule

15

nombre de Passagers par jour

People per day

10 000

nombre de stations

Number of stations

8

POMA, innovation

for the project

1st small 2s ropeway • crosslink ropeway
urban by POMA

A new urban ropeway range has been developed for this project, the main purpose of which is to cover short distances with only a few towers.

A restrictive
urban environment

The teams on site had to be resourceful when installing the towers and when rolling out the tensioned ropes over homes, electric lines, railway tracks, roads and rivers.

ultra-modern 
stations

The urban ropeway line retrofit project also involved a very distinctive station design. All the architectural work was conducted by Georgian Architects and all the stations are typically Georgian in style. A far cry from the image of the old dilapidated ropeways, the stations are futuristic, unstructured and very colourful.

Chiatura,
the City of Ropeways

 

Chiatura, a small mining city, was a pioneer in urban ropeway transportation. It was home to the first-ever passenger ropeway in the USSR and boasted the largest ratio of ropeway transportation lines per inhabitant. These ropeways, mostly now abandoned, also attract many tourists to this city in Georgia.

installation images

They talk about it

Arkhyz gondola lift

Our constructive dialogue with POMA is not only about the provision of equipment, but also about technical supervision, local personnel training and support for our company’s environmental initiatives. That is why we appreciate working with these professionals whom we can trust at all stages of the project.

Deputy Managing Director of JSC NCR

Rustam Tapaev
Télécabine Arkhyz POMA
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Georgia – Chiatura – 2020

Urban ropeways (Sanatorium, Lejubani, Naguti, Muxadze)

To retrofit its urban overhead transport system, the city of Chiatura chose POMA. Four small urban ropeways, developed specifically to satisfy the needs in terms of capacity and the constraints regarding distances, have replaced some (very) old Russian ropeways.

product range
Detachable gondola lift
Application
Intra-urban mobility
More about

The project

The city of Chiatura, located in a mountainous valley on the banks of the Kvirila river in Georgia, experienced strong economic growth due to the mining industry in the 1950s. The city chose POMA to retrofit its overhead transport system as part of its urban development plan and also to enhance its identity.

At the peak of its activity, Chiatura had about a hundred small ropeways throughout the valley that could transport both the manganese mine workers and the ore, but also allowed the population to travel to the various districts of the city.

Out of the 100 or so industrial and urban ropeways, 24 were exclusively for passenger transport and only eight are still in operation, with four being replaced by POMA.

These four urban ropeway lines (Sanatorium, Lezhubani, Naguti, Mukhadze) connect the city centre to the outskirts, at a speed of 6 m/s. Each cabin is designed to carry up to 15 passengers with the intention of making this the main means of transport for the local population. More than 10,000 people a day are expected to use the ropeway.

The city, which is becoming more aware of its potential as a tourist destination, also hopes its visitors will experience a really enjoyable excursion over the city.

 

 

Gudauri- Kobi Valley lift

in motion

 

Technical
specifications

panneau

Lines

4

Longueur

Total length

3500 m

Maximal elevation

180 m

Capacity

up to 300 pphpd

Date

Speed

6 m/s

Number of cabins

8

Number of passengers per cabinssagers par véhicule

15

nombre de Passagers par jour

People per day

10 000

nombre de stations

Number of stations

8

POMA, innovation

for the project

1st small 2s ropeway • crosslink ropeway
urban by POMA

A new urban ropeway range has been developed for this project, the main purpose of which is to cover short distances with only a few towers.

A restrictive
urban environment

The teams on site had to be resourceful when installing the towers and when rolling out the tensioned ropes over homes, electric lines, railway tracks, roads and rivers.

ultra-modern 
stations

The urban ropeway line retrofit project also involved a very distinctive station design. All the architectural work was conducted by Georgian Architects and all the stations are typically Georgian in style. A far cry from the image of the old dilapidated ropeways, the stations are futuristic, unstructured and very colourful.

Chiatura,
the City of Ropeways

 

Chiatura, a small mining city, was a pioneer in urban ropeway transportation. It was home to the first-ever passenger ropeway in the USSR and boasted the largest ratio of ropeway transportation lines per inhabitant. These ropeways, mostly now abandoned, also attract many tourists to this city in Georgia.

installation images

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American Eagle

United States – Copper Mountain, Colorado – 2018

How the west was won: the American Eagle is the first TELEMIX® ropeway installed in the United States by the POMA Group. Passengers settle into one of the six-seater chairs and eight-seater gondolas to reach the top of the slopes or the high-altitude restaurant.

Read

Grangettes

France – Courchevel – 2018

The Les 3 Vallées company entrusted POMA with the construction of the new emblematic gondola lift of Les Grangettes. A true link between Courchevel Village and Courchevel 1850, the gondola lift is operated every day until 11 pm. It is a busy link and has opened the door to peri-urban rope transport in the mountains.

Read

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Russia – Arkhyz – 2018

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Meihuashan

Meihuashan Lift-1 et 2

In China, the Meihuashan gondola lift is a valley elevator at the heart of a year-round tourism project

Read

Treeline Cirque

United States – Squaw Valley / Alpine Meadows (California) – 2019

Leitner Poma of America, a long-standing partner of the Alpine Meadows ski resort, replaced the 1996 Hot Wheels fixed-grip chairlift this year with a new higher-performance 4-seater detachable chairlift, and took the opportunity to improve the route.

Read

Skyvall

France – Loudenvielle Peyragudes – 2019

The “Skyvall” gondola lift is a link between the village of Loudenvielle, with its lake and its recreational spa, and the ski resort of Peyragudes. Since the summer of 2020, it has helped improve the year-round appeal of this beautiful valley in the Pyrenees.

Read

Ski Indoor Dubaï

United Arab Emirates – Dubai – 2005

The Souk Al Nakheel fixed chairlift is the main installation of Ski Dubai, the first indoor ski centre of its kind in the Persian Gulf region, and the most famous in the world.

Read

Cuiyunshan

China – Cuiyunshan – 2017

A superb 6/8 Telemix®, combining 6-seater chairs with protective hoods and 8-person Diamond cabins, was deployed in Cuiyunshan, a new station near Chongli, four hours by road from Beijing.

Read

Diablerets Express

Switzerland – Diablerets – 2018

In French-speaking Switzerland, customer and operator comfort was the primary focus of the Diablerets station restructuring project. The eponymous gondola lift therefore replaces a chairlift to enhance skier comfort, and is equipped with a SmartBoard control console to ensure optimum operator comfort.

Read

Vanoise Express

France – La Plagne (Savoie) – 2003

The emblematic ropeway of the Vanoise Massif mountain range gave rise to the vast Paradiski skiing area in 2003. It held the record as the biggest cabin in the world until 2016.

Read

American Flyer

United States – Copper Mountain (Colorado) – 2018

The American Flyer may be the world’s longest bubble chairlift; in any case, it is the longest one manufactured by the POMA Group on American soil.

Read

Georgia – Chiatura – 2020

Urban ropeways (Sanatorium, Lejubani, Naguti, Muxadze)

To retrofit its urban overhead transport system, the city of Chiatura chose POMA. Four small urban ropeways, developed specifically to satisfy the needs in terms of capacity and the constraints regarding distances, have replaced some (very) old Russian ropeways.

product range
Urban Gondola Lift
Application
Connect – peri-urban link
More about

The project

The city of Chiatura, located in a mountainous valley on the banks of the Kvirila river in Georgia, experienced strong economic growth due to the mining industry in the 1950s. The city chose POMA to retrofit its overhead transport system as part of its urban development plan and also to enhance its identity.

At the peak of its activity, Chiatura had about a hundred small ropeways throughout the valley that could transport both the manganese mine workers and the ore, but also allowed the population to travel to the various districts of the city.

Out of the 100 or so industrial and urban ropeways, 24 were exclusively for passenger transport and only eight are still in operation, with four being replaced by POMA.

These four urban ropeway lines (Sanatorium, Lezhubani, Naguti, Mukhadze) connect the city centre to the outskirts, at a speed of 6 m/s. Each cabin is designed to carry up to 15 passengers with the intention of making this the main means of transport for the local population. More than 10,000 people a day are expected to use the ropeway.

The city, which is becoming more aware of its potential as a tourist destination, also hopes its visitors will experience a really enjoyable excursion over the city.

 

 

Discover

Urban ropeways

Technical
specifications

panneau

Lines

4

Longueur

Total length

3500 m

Maximal elevation

180 m

Capacity

up to 300 pphpd

Date

Speed

6 m/s

Number of cabins

8

Number of passengers per cabinssagers par véhicule

15

nombre de Passagers par jour

People per day

10 000

nombre de stations

Number of stations

8

POMA, innovation

for the project

1st small 2s ropeway • crosslink ropeway
urban by POMA

A new urban ropeway range has been developed for this project, the main purpose of which is to cover short distances with only a few towers.

A restrictive
urban environment

The teams on site had to be resourceful when installing the towers and when rolling out the tensioned ropes over homes, electric lines, railway tracks, roads and rivers.

ultra-modern 
stations

The urban ropeway line retrofit project also involved a very distinctive station design. All the architectural work was conducted by Georgian Architects and all the stations are typically Georgian in style. A far cry from the image of the old dilapidated ropeways, the stations are futuristic, unstructured and very colourful.

Chiatura,
the City of Ropeways

 

Chiatura, a small mining city, was a pioneer in urban ropeway transportation. It was home to the first-ever passenger ropeway in the USSR and boasted the largest ratio of ropeway transportation lines per inhabitant. These ropeways, mostly now abandoned, also attract many tourists to this city in Georgia.

installation images

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Read

Citadel of Namur gondola lift

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In Namur, Belgium, the ropeway connects the city centre to the Citadel Esplanade, flying over the river Sambre and the ramparts. Tourists and locals alike enjoy the experience of a silent trip with a breathtaking viewpoint. An ecological mode of travel, it blends harmoniously into its environment, by virtue of its modern architecture that respects…

Read

Aerovia

Equateur – Guayaquil – ongoing project

In order to improve the flow of daily traffic between Duran and Guayaquil, Ecuador’s economic capital, and offer an alternative solution for crossing the estuary, the local authorities have opted for ropeway transportation. Ecuador’s first urban gondola lift links Duran and Guayaquil, providing fast, smooth travel throughout the transport network for 40,000 passengers a day.

Read

Chiatura

Géorgie – Chiatura – 2020

To retrofit its urban overhead transport system, the city of Chiatura chose POMA. Four small urban ropeways, developed specifically to satisfy the needs in terms of capacity and the constraints regarding distances, have replaced some (very) old Russian ropeways.

Read

Tizi Ouzou

Algeria – Tizi Ouzou – 2019

POMA has developed a three-section aerial transport line with a total length of 5 km consisting of two gondola lifts and an aerial ropeway in Tizi Ouzou, a town located 100 km from Algiers.

Read

Airtram New York

USA – New York – 2010

With the installation of this ultra-modern aerial tramway, POMA has provided New Yorkers with the most advanced technology in urban ropeway transportation. It is 960 m long and connects Roosevelt Island to Manhattan in just three minutes, passing over the East River in great comfort with unique views of New York through the huge windows…

Read

Téléo

France – Toulouse – 2021

More than 8,000 passengers will board the cabins of the Téléo tricable ropeway every day. Part of the Toulouse Agglomeration’s transport network, it crosses a river and travels over a hill to link three major hubs of activity in the south of Toulouse: the University Cancer Institute, Rangueil Hospital and Paul Sabatier University.

Read

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Read

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