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Sergej Težak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Modern Cableways - The Base of Mountain Sports Tourism
    Strategies for Tourism Industry - Micro and Macro Perspectives, 2012
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak
    Abstract:

    Most of the population nowadays lives and works in surroundings that not always healthy and clean. Therefore, the need to take a rest in clean natural environment is so much greater. Mountain regions feature the largest surface of clean natural environment where people go for a holiday. These places are accessible by a road, cableway and via footpaths and cyclist paths. Trends nowadays are active holidays that are offered by mountain sports centres during winter and summer. (Rauzi, 2008) In winter time main activities are alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, sleighing, skating and others performed in natural environment. In summer time, main activities are mountaineering, mountain tracking, cycling and others. Cableways are mostly used by skiers with bigger demands than in the past, this results in greater disturbance of natural environment. Parking places are a special problem. Locations of parking places mostly depend on accessible Cableways. In economical and ecological point of view, a difference exists in whether parking places are located at the foothills of the mountain or in hilly or woody areas.

  • Model of Sustainable Growth and Development of the Cableway Transport System in Slovenia
    PROMET - Traffic&Transportation, 2012
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak, Ratko Zelenika, Drago Sever
    Abstract:

    The cableway transport system is very important for the Slovenian tourist economy. Within the Slovene transport system, the cableway transport subsystem has a specific role because it allows and ensures access to regions which are difficult to access or completely inaccessible by other transport subsystems owing to the configuration of the area. The quality and development of transport services are directly linked to the introduction of new Cableways. New technical achievements, which are nowadays used in Cableways, all provide greater capacity and higher speed of Cableways, which, however, results in their higher maintenance and exploitation costs. The cableway transport system is being developed in Slovenia, but not on principles of sustainable development. This paper presents a model of sustainable growth and development of the cableway transport system in Slovenia based on which it is possible to determine assumptions for future growth so that the Slovene cableway transport system would approach standards of such highly developed systems. The new model includes ten essential elements of this system for which growth rates were calculated.

  • Reliability Analysis of Operation for Cableways by FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) Method
    University of Zagreb Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, 2010
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak, Zdravko Toš, Ivo Jurić
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the reliability of the operation of cableway systems in Slovenia, which has major impact on the quality of service in the mountain tourism, mainly in wintertime. Different types of cableway installations in Slovenia were captured in a sample and fault tree analysis (FTA) was made on the basis of the obtained data. The paper presents the results of the analysis. With these results it is possible to determine the probability of faults of different types of Cableways, which types of faults have the greatest impact on the termination of operation, which components of Cableways fail most, what is the impact of age of Cableways on the occurrence of the faults. Finally, an attempt was made to find if occurrence of faults on individual cableway installation has also impact on traffic on this cableway due to reduced quality of service. KEYWORDS: Cableways, aerial ropeways, chairlifts, ski-tows, quality, faults, fault tree analysis, reliability, service quality, winter tourism, mountain tourist centre

  • Influence of Modern Cableways on the Development of Mountain Tourist Centres
    Promet-traffic & Transportation, 2005
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak, Ivan Mavrin, Ivo Jurić
    Abstract:

    The paper studies the problem of constructing Cablewayswith advanced technology and their influence on the operationand development of cableway companies from several aspects.Modern Cableways with detachable grips enable faster ca'iageof passengers. They have the possibility of transporting morepassengers over the same distances. Recently, this trend of introducingmodern Cableways has been particularly present inchairlifts which carry skiers. Such chairlifts with detachablegrips allow transport of skiers over greater distances and thereforemust have respective ski slopes covering wider areas whichin turn affects the expansion of the mountain tourist centres.The chairlifts with detachable grips require more knowledgeand personnel to manage and maintain them, as well as moreinvestment capital.

Ivo Jurić - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Reliability Analysis of Operation for Cableways by FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) Method
    University of Zagreb Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, 2010
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak, Zdravko Toš, Ivo Jurić
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the reliability of the operation of cableway systems in Slovenia, which has major impact on the quality of service in the mountain tourism, mainly in wintertime. Different types of cableway installations in Slovenia were captured in a sample and fault tree analysis (FTA) was made on the basis of the obtained data. The paper presents the results of the analysis. With these results it is possible to determine the probability of faults of different types of Cableways, which types of faults have the greatest impact on the termination of operation, which components of Cableways fail most, what is the impact of age of Cableways on the occurrence of the faults. Finally, an attempt was made to find if occurrence of faults on individual cableway installation has also impact on traffic on this cableway due to reduced quality of service. KEYWORDS: Cableways, aerial ropeways, chairlifts, ski-tows, quality, faults, fault tree analysis, reliability, service quality, winter tourism, mountain tourist centre

  • Influence of Modern Cableways on the Development of Mountain Tourist Centres
    Promet-traffic & Transportation, 2005
    Co-Authors: Sergej Težak, Ivan Mavrin, Ivo Jurić
    Abstract:

    The paper studies the problem of constructing Cablewayswith advanced technology and their influence on the operationand development of cableway companies from several aspects.Modern Cableways with detachable grips enable faster ca'iageof passengers. They have the possibility of transporting morepassengers over the same distances. Recently, this trend of introducingmodern Cableways has been particularly present inchairlifts which carry skiers. Such chairlifts with detachablegrips allow transport of skiers over greater distances and thereforemust have respective ski slopes covering wider areas whichin turn affects the expansion of the mountain tourist centres.The chairlifts with detachable grips require more knowledgeand personnel to manage and maintain them, as well as moreinvestment capital.

Manuela Pulina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Demand, business profitability and competitiveness in the cableway system: A multidimensional framework
    Research in Transportation Economics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Moreno Ferrarese, Enzo Loner, Manuela Pulina
    Abstract:

    Abstract The paper provides a theoretical framework on demand for cableway system, business profitability and competitiveness between mountain areas, including novel elements such as on-line customer satisfaction. Through an in-depth literature review, three important theoretical constructs and core determinants have been identified and further validated by a Structural Equation Model (SEM) using continuous indicators either as observable variables or as latent variables. The results show that the cableway supply in the Italian Aosta Valley Region, as a case study representing the typical alpine biodiverse region, is based on a shade public intervention. The success of the cableway system depends mainly on a loyal segment of demand, on middle/high income and on multi-elastic prices policy. Furthermore, the results provide evidence of possible cooperative competition (or win-win co-opetition) amongst agents.

  • Tourism and transport systems in mountain environments: analysis of the economic efficiency of Cableways in South Tyrol
    Journal of Transport Geography, 2014
    Co-Authors: Juan Gabriel Brida, Manuela Deidda, Manuela Pulina
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the economic efficiency of Cableways in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Italy, and relates it to sustainability and tourism issues. Cableways represent an environmental-friendly mode of transport that enables access to remote and environmentally delicate areas. Thus, examining Cableways efficiency informs policies that foster regional competitiveness from a sustainable development perspective. Employing annual data from 2002 up to 2008, the pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency are computed using a panel Data Envelopment Analysis. Overall, the empirical findings reveal that this type of transport in the Italian Alps can be regarded as relatively economically inefficient and most of the Cableways denote decreasing returns to scale. Nevertheless, some distinctive features are detected amongst Cableways classified by district. Policy implications are drawn to help economic agents improve their efficiency scores.

Bo Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Nonlinear model for the dynamic analysis of a time-dependent vehicle-cableway bridge system
    Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2021
    Co-Authors: Xiang Xiao, Hao Xue, Bo Chen
    Abstract:

    Abstract A flexible cableway bridge under moving vehicles is a typical time-dependent dynamic system with geometric nonlinearity. The particularities of this system are different from those of traditional nonlinear structures. An analytical model of time-dependent vehicle-cableway bridge systems has not been systematically established because the coupling effects of geometric nonlinearity are not involved. In this regard, a nonlinear model for the dynamic analysis of vehicle-cableway bridge systems is proposed in this work. The nonlinear equations of motion in incremental forms are established using an updated Lagrangian expression and the virtual work principle by regarding cableway bridges and vehicles as a whole dynamic system. A new iterative algorithm is developed for the response solution based on the implicit Wilson-θ method associated with the Newton-Raphson iterative technique. A general computational procedure for dynamic analyses of vehicle-cableway bridge systems is proposed. Three typical bridges, including a real cableway bridge in China, are taken used as examples to verify the validity of the proposed method. Detailed parametric studies are also conducted to demonstrate the effects of geometric nonlinearity and the efficiency of the iterative algorithm and investigate the resonance property of vehicle-cableway bridge systems. The made observations indicate that the proposed method can perform an efficient nonlinear dynamic analysis of a vehicle-cableway bridge system.

Juan Gabriel Brida - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Tourism and transport systems in mountain environments: analysis of the economic efficiency of Cableways in South Tyrol
    Journal of Transport Geography, 2014
    Co-Authors: Juan Gabriel Brida, Manuela Deidda, Manuela Pulina
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the economic efficiency of Cableways in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Italy, and relates it to sustainability and tourism issues. Cableways represent an environmental-friendly mode of transport that enables access to remote and environmentally delicate areas. Thus, examining Cableways efficiency informs policies that foster regional competitiveness from a sustainable development perspective. Employing annual data from 2002 up to 2008, the pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency are computed using a panel Data Envelopment Analysis. Overall, the empirical findings reveal that this type of transport in the Italian Alps can be regarded as relatively economically inefficient and most of the Cableways denote decreasing returns to scale. Nevertheless, some distinctive features are detected amongst Cableways classified by district. Policy implications are drawn to help economic agents improve their efficiency scores.