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    Otis Hovair Transit Systems is a type of hovertrain used in low-speed people mover applications. Traditional people mover systems used wheeled vehicles...
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    300,000 elevators. Otis has also dabbled in horizontal automated people-mover "shuttle" systems, such as the Otis Hovair. In 2020, Otis formed a joint venture...
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    designed by Otis Elevator Company during the 1970s, installed beginning in 1977 and opened on December 8, 1979. The PRT had three driverless Otis Hovair vehicles...
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    (Great White). In January 1986 the Skytrain people mover, built with Otis Hovair technology, took its first trip on a 1.71 km (1.06 mi) line that connects...
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    Getty Center Tram (category Hovair people movers)
    Angeles. It runs two cable-driven hovertrains each consisting of three Otis Hovair vehicles. The tram line, already planned in 1988, was opened at the end...
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  • DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car Cincinnati Airport People Mover 9 June 1994 Otis Hovair Detroit People Mover 31 July 1987 SelTrac DFW Skylink 21 May 2005 Bombardier...
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    cars floated on a 0.2-mm layer of air Old Dominion University Maglev Otis Hovair SAFEGE Schienenzeppelin – a 1930s German train using a propeller, but...
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    same advantages. The only hovertain to see commercial service was the Otis Hovair system. Originally developed at General Motors as an automated guideway...
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    Airside Center, Gates A, B and C with its mid-field Gates E, based on OTIS's Otis Hovair Melbourne (1885–1940, the Melbourne cable tramway system) Sydney (1886–1905)...
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    Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport Trams Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit Otis Hovair transit systems, for example, Skymetro at Zurich International Airport...
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    ExpressTram (category Hovair people movers)
    Poma-Otis Transportation Systems, a joint venture between Otis Elevator Company and Poma that has since been dissolved. Installation was performed by Otis...
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    Cincinnati Airport People Mover (category Hovair people movers)
    Concourse B round-trip. Constructed and installed by the Otis Elevator Company using its "Hovair" hovertrain technology, at the time of its construction...
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    Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport Trams (category Hovair people movers)
    interfere with the operation of the air cushions had it been built with Hovair technology. Wascoe Jr., Dan (April 3, 2001). "Airport tram begins running...
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    Skymetro (category Hovair people movers)
    air compressors, running over a smooth concrete guide way as in other Otis Hovair installations. Service is provided by a total of nine cars, which operate...
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  • Medical Center Patient Rapid Transit 1979–2009 Otis Hovair Harbour Island People Mover 1985-1999 Otis Hovair Indiana University Health People Mover 2003–2019...
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    U-Bahn Serfaus (category Hovair people movers)
    stations in the village centre. The line was built in 1985 by the Freissler-Otis company, and began operation on 14 December that year, with its official...
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  • Poma (category Hovair people movers)
    can climb steep pitches. Poma also had a partnership with Otis Elevator, known as "Poma-Otis Transportation Systems", to build Automated People Movers...
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    Huntsville Hospital Tram System (category Hovair people movers)
    in the state of Alabama. Developed by Poma-Otis Transportation Systems, a joint venture of Poma and the Otis Elevator Company, and constructed by Brasfield...
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    Narita Airport Terminal 2 Shuttle System (category Hovair people movers)
    ride took a minute, and was free of charge. The system was made by Nippon Otis Elevator, a company specialising in elevators and escalators. It was technically...
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  • Harbour Island People Mover (category Hovair people movers)
    TECO Line Streetcar. Developed by the Beneficial Corporation and utilizing Otis Transportation Systems, the people mover was completed at a cost of $7 million...
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