Abstract: A transport installation with a continuous running aerial rope supports chairs and gondola cars coupled by detachable grips. The rope extends in a closed loop between two bull-wheels, with an up-line and a down-line. The installation presents loading/unloading terminals provided at least at the ends of said lines. One of the terminals comprises a transfer circuit connecting the up-line and the down-line, with a slowing-down section equipped with a slowing-down device, a speeding-up section equipped with a propelling device, connected by a run-through section with a low running speed equipped with a driving device of the vehicles. The transfer circuit comprises a continuous running speed regulating section equipped with a speed regulating means that is able to vary the time required by the cars and the chairs to pass through the speed regulating section, to impose a first predetermined running speed of the cars and a second predetermined running speed of the chairs.

Abstract: A transport installation comprises a first means for moving a vehicle between a first end terminal and an intermediate terminal and a second means for moving the vehicle between the intermediate terminal and a second end terminal, by loading the vehicle on board an elevator shaft. The first means for moving are formed by a people mover comprising an aerial rope in a closed loop for driving at least one detachable car forming said vehicle, said loop being equipped with a detachment/attachment section of the car situated near the intermediate terminal. The people mover also comprises a transfer track for guiding and transporting the car in the detached position.

Abstract: A transport installation with a continuous running aerial rope supports chairs and gondola cars coupled by detachable grips. The rope extends in a closed loop between two bull-wheels, with an up-line and a down-line. The installation presents loading/unloading terminals provided at least at the ends of said lines. One of the terminals comprises a transfer circuit connecting the up-line and the down-line, with a slowing-down section equipped with a slowing-down device, a speeding-up section equipped with a propelling device, connected by a run-through section with a low running speed equipped with a driving device of the vehicles. The transfer circuit comprises a continuous running speed regulating section equipped with a speed regulating means that is able to vary the time required by the cars and the chairs to pass through the speed regulating section, to impose a first predetermined running speed of the cars and a second predetermined running speed of the chairs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an aerial ropeway transport installation comprising a speed regulating section, that consists in assigning an individual identification code to each vehicle and in associating a setpoint value representative of the required distance between the vehicle and the vehicle preceding same, on exit from a speed regulating section, with said identification code. The invention also relates to an installation for implementation of the method.