Review of urban interchanges
Introduction
The TransMiCable is a cable car type and aerial cable subtype transportation system for urban rapid transit mobilization in the city of Bogotá, Colombia; It is made up of a 3.34 km long commercial service line. It has a total of four stations. It was inaugurated on December 27, 2018 and began commercial operations on December 29 of the same year.[1][2] It is part of the SITP, along with TransMilenio and the Metro.[3].
History
The start of construction of Bogotá's first aerial cable line was planned for 2012, however, because the Bogotá Council denied the necessary resources, the structuring of the project was delayed. On November 30, 2015, the document was signed in which the commitment to construct the aerial cable for the town of Ciudad Bolívar "Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)") located in the south of Bogotá was recorded. To date, the Urban Development Institute had already begun the purchase of 93 of the 175 properties that were needed to begin construction works with an investment of 8,000 million pesos.[4].
On September 12, 2016, the construction of the TransMiCable line officially began in the town of Ciudad Bolívar "Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)"). The work was budgeted to last 21 months and be delivered in December 2018.[5] In June 2017, the first cabins of the system began to arrive in the city of Bogotá, the delivery of the cabins was gradual throughout the second half of the same year.[6] At the beginning of 2018, the steel cable of the system was installed for three weeks, first it was laid with the help of a drone. 2-millimeter nylon guide cable between each of the towers, which was replaced by more resistant cables until the installation of the main 5.2-millimeter steel cable was completed.[7] Since March, tests on the system began, initially with two cabins at 3.6 km/h to verify the operation of the already installed cable, then with a greater number of cabins at 10.0 km/h to test the automatic power supply systems, and finally the final test with the total number of cabins at the commercial speed of the system.[8].
In May 2018, the operation and maintenance of the TransMiCable system was awarded to the Cable Móvil Consortium made up of the companies Transdev from Chile and Fanalca from Colombia.[9].
On August 31, 2018, the required tests of the system were completed and the completion of the works by the contractor was made official. The IDU delivered all the components of the system to the company TransMilenio, which is in charge of the operation of the city's public transportation, to begin the adaptation of turnstiles and signage for each of the stations.[10].