Mi Teleférico (My Cable car). La Paz – El Alto (Bolivia)

Oct 14, 2019

Protecting the largest air cable system in the world

EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)”, conforms the largest collective air cable transport system in the world connecting various points in the cities of La Paz and El Alto (Bolivia).

Its first line started operating on 30 May 2014. Currently, there are 8 operating lines and the opening of 3 additional lines remains pending through 23 stations.

Currently, EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” receives 180,000 passengers per day and generates 250 million bolivianos (36M USD) in collections, apart from creating 2,000 direct employment and 5.500 indirect employment.

EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” solves the mobility problems of the population in La Paz, due to the orographic complexity of the city and the increasing demand from public land transport users, which produces high levels of environmental and sound pollution.

This system offers coverage through cameras installed at various control points of “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” collective air transport network, a total of 23 stations.

Likewise, local operators in each of the 23 stations and the Monitoring and Control Centre, from where access to any element of the CCTV system installed in the 23 stations is available, were provided with all necessary managing elements.

The objective of the project was to ensure the users’ security and support the authorities in the public security of the city by integrating various sub-systems, which act together providing an automatic response before events.

Scati was the manufacturer selected by Empresa Estatal de Transporte por Cable “Mi Teleférico” ( State Company of Cable car Transport “My Cable car” (hereinafter referred to as EETC) to implement its video solution as a security system.

This project has been awarded as the “Best Public Security Project in Latin America” given by ALAS (Latin American Security Association).

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