Session 2
BOLZANO - ITALY (2017)
"Operation of ropeways: Technical and economic aspects"
- Objective risk – personal perception
Keynote speaker: Manfred Müller
Lufthansa aircraft captain and instructor for risk management
Despite enormous achievements in engineering and computer science the human operator is still extremely important when a complex process requires a high safety level.Humans make mistakes, however optimum team interaction can identify and correct human errors and is an important tool for risk management. (PDF 647 KB) - Continuous Motion, Constant Emotion – How to operate 365 days a year – ppt
Diego Scofano: Mechanical Engineer, Technical Director at Sugar Loaf Cable Car in Rio de Janeiro
Giuseppe Pellegrini: Mechanical Engineer, Director of Engineering at Sugar Loaf Cable Car in Rio de Janeiro (PDF 2,4 MB) - Continuous Motion, Constant Emotion – How to operate 365 days a year – paper
Report on the operational experience of the Cia Caminho Aéreo Pão de Açúcar that manages the Sugar Loaf Cable Car. The care and maintenance routines ensure availability over 99.5% with operations on every day of the year. (PDF 543 KB) - Seasonality – what is seasonality? Paths to year-round operation in mountain destinations – ppt
Michael Volgger: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management at Eurac research and Senior Lecturer at Curtin University
Harald Pechlaner: Head of Institute at the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management at Eurac research; Chair in Tourism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Gerhard Vanzi: Senior Research Affiliate at the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management at Eurac research (PDF 12,4 MB) - Seasonality – what is seasonality? Paths to year-round operation in mountain destinations – paper
By looking at the case example of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and tourism destination of Dolomites in Italy, the presentation provides some concrete tools and models that support product design in mountain destinations in order to reach a stepwise extension from mainly winter-focused towards year-round operations (PDF 152 KB) - A tool for controlling risks in ropeway operation: the safety management system – ppt
Gaëtan Rioult: Head of the Ropeway Division of STRMTG (Service technique des remontées mécaniques et des transports guidés) – Directorate General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (France) (PDF 331 KB) - A tool for controlling risks in ropeway operation: the safety management system – paper
The analysis of ropeway accidents shows that organizational and human factors related to employees regularly play a role in the course of such events. The objective of the presentation is to demonstrate the usefulness of safety management systems and to illustrate the potentials of this tool by specific examples. (PDF 169 KB) - Digitization: The key to raising efficiency – ppt
Michael Arnold: Responsibility for SisControl, SISAG (PDF 1,2 MB) - Digitization: The key to raising efficiency – paper
The tourism and ropeway industry faces extremely high pressures today and tomorrow. This requires instruments, such as software tools, that make operations more effective, faster and more flexible. This can be achieved to a large extent by the consistent and smart digitization data and by networking them (PDF 573 KB) - Driverless operation of ropeways – ppt
Thibault Chatelus: Ropeway Division of STRMTG (Service technique des remontées mécaniques et des transports guidés) – Directorate General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (France) (PDF 1,2 MB) - Driverless operation of ropeways – paper
The contribution presents the analyses performed in recent years in France and the findings obtained for the operation of ropeways without permanently present operating staff. Concrete examples are used to highlight the issues requiring particular attention during the construction and operation of such systems. (PDF 573 KB) - A dream of the “O.I.T.A.F. Congress 2053” – ppt
Pier Giorgio Graziano: Former technical director of the ropeway manufacturer Agudio, head of the Working Group “Material transport ropeways and cable cranes” of O.I.T.A.F., amateur novelist (PDF 2,9 MB) - A dream of the “O.I.T.A.F. Congress 2053” – paper
A fictitious dream voyage to the year 2053 when the O.I.T.A.F Congress again takes place in Bolzano: This provides an occasion for looking back to 2017 and remembering the then O.I.T.A.F. Congress. In the course of the Congress, a ropeway packed with of exciting innovations that was initiated by O.I.T.A.F. and built in a joint effort of all the manufacturers is inaugurated. (PDF 1,2 MB)
