08/07/2022 - Infrastructure

KEY POINTS

·        National Ropeways Development Programme, is a preferred ecologically sustainable alternative to conventional roads in difficult hilly areas. It will be taken up in PPP (public-private partnership) mode.

·        The aim is to improve connectivity and convenience for commuters, besides promoting tourism. This may also cover congested urban areas, where a conventional mass transit system is not feasible.

·        The ropeway enables travel in 10 minutes a journey that otherwise takes 45 minutes by ferry, or over an hour by road.

·        Passenger ropeways are classified according to their operational characteristics. The more common forms are aerial tramways, gondolas, funiculars, and chair lifts.

·        Ropeways can handle steep gradients. Where a road or railroad needs switchbacks or tunnels, a ropeway can negotiate the same in a straight line.

·        In urban settings, the fact that only narrow-based vertical supports are needed at intervals, leaving the rest of the ground free, makes it possible for ropeways to be constructed in built-up areas and in places where there is intense competition for land use.

·        The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has been made responsible for the development of ropeways and alternative mobility solutions.

·        It thus now has the responsibility for crafting a regulatory regime for the sector, including issues related to choice of technology, safety and operational guidelines.

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1. Ropeways will be able to connect people from one end , it's being implemented by the Ministry of road transport and highways .eg. Guwahati is being done.
2. Low cost but efficient mode of transport.
3. Low dust emissions and ecological friendly project.
4. It may not lead to more congestion as is it required in roadways because of aerial transport.
5.  Low carbon emissions with more number of passengers can be transported safely with economic costs being affordable. 

  This project aims for last mile connectivity and shortens the travel duration for people, thus may increase the productivity of the people as well as safer environmental surroundings.