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Intramural Transit Systems
This section is intended to contain systems that carry passengers from
one point to another within a single campus or facility, or between
closely-related facilities. They are not publically available to
non-users of the facilities that they serve, and are usually operated as
an integral part of those facilities.
Airport peoplemovers form a large, well-defined subcategory, so they
are listed separately.
Additions and corrections are especially welcome for this section!
Airport peoplemovers
The Newark and New York (JFK) systems also appear in the list of
non-intramural peoplemovers because they serve locations outside the
airport itself.
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Chicago, Illinois (O'Hare)
- Cincinnati, Ohio / Northern Kentucky (cable-driven)
- Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas
- Denver, Colorado
- Detroit, Michigan (cable-driven, air-cushion support)
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Miami, Florida
- Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota
- New York, New York (JFK) (under construction)
- Newark, New Jersey (monorail)
- San Francisco, California (Airtrain, under construction))
- Seattle, Washington
- Orlando, Florida
- Denver, Colorado
- Houston, Texas
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Tampa, Florida
Other peoplemovers, funiculars, etc.
This list excludes pure loop-type operations that bring all passengers
back to the starting point, and operations that are contained completely
within a single building. Also, for now at least, it doesn't include the
aerial tramways at numerous ski resorts.
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (funicular at Horseshoe Curve National
Historic Site)
- Calgary, Alberta (parking lot shuttle at Heritage Park; uses restored
Calgary streetcars)
- Capitola, California ("Hillavator" at Shadowbrook restaurant)
- Chattanooga, Tennessee (Chattanooga Choo-Choo trolley)
- Chisholm, Minnesota (trolley at Ironworld Discovery Center)
- Disney World, Florida (monorail)
- Durham, North Carolina (Duke University Hospital Personal Rapid Transit)
- Indianapolis, Indiana (Clarian Health peoplemover; opened 27 June
2003)
- Irving, Texas (Las Colinas Area Personal
Transit)
- Kellogg, Idaho (funicular to Silver Mountain ski area)
- Las Vegas, Nevada (various "novelty" monorails etc. at hotels/casinos)
- Los Angeles, California (Farmers Market trolley; battery-powered)
- Los Angeles, California (Getty Art Museum: cable-powered, air-cushion)
- Mammoth Mountain, California (ski resort peoplemover)
- Miami, Florida (MetroZoo monorail, 4 stations)
- Monarch Pass, Colorado (funicular, open to public in summer only)
- Medford, Massachusetts ("Wellington Shuttle" between MBTA Orange Line station
and parking garage)
- Montreal, Quebec (Minirail in La Ronde amusement park, originally built for Expo 67)
- New York, New York (Bronx Zoo aerial tramway)
- Niagara Falls, Ontario (funicular)
- Norfolk, Virginia (maglev peoplemover at Old Dominion University;
under construction)
- Primm Valley, Nevada (a "monorail" that I understand isn't really a
monorail, linking three hotel/casinos)
- Reno, Nevada (Circus Circus hotel/casino monorail)
- Royal Gorge, Colorado (funicular)
- San Diego, California (San Diego Zoo aerial tramway)
- Tampa, Florida (Busch Gardens peoplemover)
- Waikoloa, Hawaii (Hilton Waikoloa Village "monorail" which is
apparently similar to the Primm Valley system)
- Washington, DC (subways between the U.S. Capitol building and the Russell,
Hart, Dirksen and Rayburn office buildings)
Miscellaneous
Elevators in public buildings could be considered as a form of mass
transit, but they are obviously much too numerous to list. An interesting
variation is the inclinator, an elevator that runs on an angled track
like a funicular. Some examples include:
- Dallas, Texas (City Place station of DART light rail)
- Montreal, Quebec (Olympic Stadium tower)
- Washington, DC (Huntington Metrorail station)
Also noteworthy is the "capsule train" that carries passengers to the
top of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
This page was last updated on 9 May 2004.
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