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A Swiss Rides monorail in use at
Ain Adhari park in Bahrain
PEOPLE
POWER
Why moving guests is all about going green
They might not feature highly in venues’ offering a range of monorails, he recently formed part in reducing operational costs.”
marketing material, but people movers are a new company, Swiss Trains, to take care of the Newer products such as Dotto’s Green Express
the workhorses of many parks and Tschu-Tschu product range. run on battery power, eliminating all fuel
attractions, ensuring the smooth transition of Land train specialist Dotto Trains supplies its emissions. Such improvements are good for the
guests throughout the day, or returning them products to a wide range of facilities. They can environment, but beneficial to the operator too.
to their cars at the close of play. In many often be seen, for example, ferrying passengers Lower noise emissions, for example, mean the
cases they can also be an enjoyable ride in up and down the promenade in seaside resorts, trains can be used for indoor applications.
themselves. From land trains to monorails, as well as in inner cities, shopping malls, Whatever their customer’s reason for choosing
and a few unusual variations in between, amusement parks and other tourist hotspots. “We them, most manufacturers report growing
Park World examines what the market has to have some clients that also use the trains as a demand for greener people moving products.
offer, and finds that green issues are key to side business to advertise for local attractions, “Very often it is the client who is driving the
many recent improvements restaurants etc,” notes the company’s Sabrina green agenda,” notes Lamb. “Our single largest
Carraro. improvement in recent years has been harnessing
“Both as a visitor attraction and for practical People movers need to be
reasons, the majority of parks do require some comfortable, easy to get on and
A Severn-Lamb
kind of people mover,” notes Patrick Lamb of off (especially for disabled guests) rail train
Severn-Lamb in the UK, which supplies a range and, as they run all day long,
of high-spec rail trains in addition to road trains reliable. According to Breitenstein,
and custom monorails. “The people mover may “good maintenance and
be purely functional in moving guests from A to operational training,” are key to a
B, or offered as an integral part of the visitor smooth operation.
experience.” “Just like a normal car, the
“Most parks have people movers,” concurs running costs depend on the
Larry Breitenstein, national sales director for trams maintenance carried out,” adds
and entertainment at Chance Morgan. Carraro. Lamb agrees: “Quicker,
“Especially those parks where there is a lot of more regular maintenance often
walking.” avoids costly unforeseen problems
Guests are less likely to want to walk in “Asia, later. Alternative fuels such as
the USA and the Arabic countries,” according to liquid petroleum gas, diesel or
Philipp Meili of Swiss Rides. In addition to electric can also play a significant
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