Monorails Transportation Technology

Monorails Transportation Technology

A monorail utilizes a single rail serving as a track for passenger or freight vehicles. In most cases it is elevated, but monorails can also run at grade, below grade, or in subway tunnels. Vehicles are either suspended from or straddle a narrow guideway. Monorail vehicles are WIDER than the guideway that supports them.

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Monorail Society

- All-volunteer organization founded to foster more awareness and promote this uniquely safe method of transit: not just for theme parks and zoos. Descriptions, diagrams, technical papers, news, videos, history, comparisons, costs, links.

Moscow Monorail - Opening in 2003 with 5km and 5 stations.
Chiba Monorail - World's longest suspended monorail, built in 1988, 15.5km, 18 stations.
Owen Transit Group, Inc. - Engineering firm offering the HighRoad Monorail System: 1 beam, 2-way traffic.
Las Vegas Monorail - Originally opened in 1995, this system will be expanded to 6km in 2004.
Osaka Monorail - Osaka's monorail operating since 1990, 23.8km, 16 stations.
Historic Seattle Monorail - Seattle's original monorail, built in 1962 for the World's Fair, still operating daily on its one-mile track.
Sydney Metro Monorail - Operating as a tourist loop near the harbor since 1988, 3.6km, 7 stations.
Aerobus International, Inc. - Makes large, collective, suspended, monorail train system, tracks supported by widely spaced cable suspension. Descriptions, photos, diagrams, video, history, installations, news, contacts, contacts.
SwedeTrack System AB - Makes FlyWay automated beamcarried traffic, of Sweden. Medium and large, collective, suspended vehicles, lower to the ground to avoid any need to build stations. Many descriptions, images, links. English, Svenska.
STC: Sky Train Corp. - Proposed large, collective, suspended monorail from Florida. Descriptions, diagrams, book, news, consulting, TRDA grant.
Tama Monorail - Operating just outside Tokyo since 1997, 16km, 19 stations.
The ALWEG Archives - History of the ALWEG monorail system.
Shonan Monorail - Japan's first suspended monorail, built in 1970, 6.6km, 8 stations.
Walt's Toy Trains - Some pictures of Disneyland monorails.

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