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Von Roll monorail at Alton Towers, UK, originally built for Expo 86 in Canada Chongqing Rail Transit Line 2, Zoo station in Chongqing, China The Walt Disney World Monorail System. The Moscow monorail. Systems characterised by one station and/or open cabins and that are not primarily for point-to-point transportation.
This is a list of automated people mover systems located at airports around the world. These systems are used to transport people from one location within an airport to another. Many different types of people movers are used at airports, including automated guideway transit, monorail, and maglev.
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. [1] More accurately, the term refers to the style of track. [note 1] Monorail systems are most frequently implemented in large cities, airports, and theme parks.
The system became a showcase of transportation technology for Dallas and Monorail, Inc, attracting the attention of urban planners and city leaders from around the world. Thirty months after installation, the system had attracted 50,000 riders; by the end of its life, it had carried over 1,000,000 people. [6] [7]
Japan would later adopt the ALWEG and SAFEGE monorail systems including the Shonan Monorail and build more transit monorails than any other country in the world. [3] In 1956 Monorail, Incorporated built a short test track of their suspended system at Arrowhead Park in Houston, Texas. The single 55 seat car was called "Trailblazer".
Innovia Monorail is a fully automated and driverless monorail system currently manufactured and marketed by Alstom as part of its Innovia series of fully automated transportation systems. Its straddle-beam design is based on the ALWEG monorail, which was first developed in the 1950s and later popularized by Disney at their theme parks.
The monorail is associated with the names Louis Brennan, August Scherl and Pyotr Shilovsky, who each built full-scale working prototypes during the early part of the twentieth century. A version was developed by Ernest F. Swinney, Harry Ferreira and Louis E. Swinney in the US in 1962. The gyro monorail was never developed beyond the prototype ...
The Hitachi Monorail System refers to the family of monorails offered by Hitachi Rail. List of notable Hitachi monorails. Hitachi's designs are ALWEG-based, ...