Originally Posted by
jib71
Yes. I suppose someone saw the word "shuttle" and assumed bus. That said, it isn't a series of cars, and it doesn't run on rails, so train might not be satisfactory either. According to Wikipedia, it's technically a
"horizontal elevator" ... Try getting that past a newspaper editor.
This is awesome:
The system is made by Nippon Otis Elevator, a company specialized in elevators and escalators. It is technically (and legally) not a railway, but a horizontal elevator; cars are attached to a cable that moves them, like a funicular. These cars do not have wheels; instead, they float on a 0.2-millimetre layer of pressured air. This was the first use of such a system to be used in an airport, as well as the first in Japan.
No rails, no wheels, only air and a cable. A horizontal cable car? I guess this is why they invented the term "people mover".