DCC Earns Major Contract in Caracas, Venezuela

New People Mover to Complement Doppelmayr Group’s Extensive Development in South America’s Second Largest Population Center.

Selected for its proven advantages and outstanding record, Doppelmayr Cable Car, DCC, is creating the Cabletren Bolivariano Project, a new people mover system for Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The system provides a critical link in an ambitious urban development project near Petare.  

As part of Metro de Caracas Public Transportation System, the 1.43 miles (2.3 km), Cabletren Bolivariano Project’s automated people mover, or APM, will connect an existing Metro station, Metro Petare (Line 1), and Metro Waraira Repano A (planned Line 6). Four walk-through trains on a steel guideway provide a system capacity of up to 3000 passengers per hour per direction. With a total of five stations, the system will include an interchange station for easy access to a local train, buses, and the new Metro Line 6.

In order to achieve the best possible passenger convenience, DCC introduces a pinched loop design. Operating up to four, fully synchronized trains, each on an independent rope with a dedicated drive and return unit, DCC’s pinched loop technology reduces the interval between trains, or headway, to as little as four and a half minutes.

Scheduled to open in November 2011, DCC’s custom designed APM will provide Caracas the connection it needs to complete development of an area just west of Petare, the second most populated region in South America.