With a cost-benefit ratio of 1.6, the cable car in the example of Bonn is economically profitable. © SI/Pixabay
Cities, SI Urban 1/2024
Cash flow: Costs and benefits of urban cable cars
How much do cities have to invest to build and operate cable cars? And what benefits do they derive from it? Using the example of the planned cable car in the German city of Bonn, the renowned engineering firm Spiekermann has carried out such a cost-benefit analysis.
20. March 2024
Benefits of the cable car
Spiekermann‘s calculation begins with the benefits of the cable car (see infobox). Thanks to the cable car, travelers save 287,000 hours of travel time per year. The standardized valuation estimates each hour of travel time at €7.10, resulting in a
