As discussed earlier, each Aerobus vehicle is capable of towing (push or pull) another vehicle, or transfer passengers safely from a disabled vehicle if power is available. In case of a power failure along the line, internal combustion engine powered EMV would have to tow the vehicle into the nearest station. It is recognized that there may be occasions when a number of vehicles may block access to a disabled vehicle, in which case, it may take some time to get to the disabled vehicle to be moved to a station. It is for such situations that it is important to have battery backed communications and hotel power in the vehicles, as well as fire extinguishing equipment. All materials in the vehicle are either non-flammable or fire retardant, thus only the passengers clothing or potential vandalism could cause fire inside the vehicle, these must be quickly extinguished. The means for maximum safety until towed are certainly provided. As seen, it is only in a very last resort that one would have to turn to blocking off a lane of expressway for cranes or other rescue equipment for evacuation of passengers.

As a special emergency evacuation approach to cable-suspended Aerobus installations, particularly over long cable spans and over territory where ground access in emergencies is difficult to obtain, Aerobus will provide over selected long spans an Independently Controlled Emergency Rescue System (ICERS), which consists of the following:

At selected cable spans, each adjacent pylon (supporting the selected cable span) is equipped with a motor driven wheel of relatively small diameter (10 ft. or below)

A single cable loop is installed, supported by grooves in the circumference of the above said wheels and the cable loop is brought to a "tight loop" by pre-tightening the cable by at least 15% of its breaking strength. Both wheels, and therefore the cable loop, are in the vertical plane and positioned under the "cable-supported running rails" of the Aerobus system and centered between the two rails.
At the center of the roof each Aerobus vehicle has a V-shaped guide which surrounds from the bottom and two sides the lower one of the cables described above.

In case of an emergency, where a vehicle becomes disabled along this segment for any reason, under an external radio command, the disabled vehicle V-shaped guide would release a spring actuated "grabber" to form a lock into the bottom part of the cable loop, which then would enable the cable to tow the vehicle in either direction.