Abstract
Straddle monorail, using rubber wheels and precast concrete track beams, is a kind of distinctive urban rail transit system, featured with strong climbing capability, small turning radius, less land occupation, low noise, moderate volume, and low cost. Those unique technical characteristics have played an important role in Chongqing urban rail transit lines. Chongqing provides a typical demonstration project, and straddle monorail transit system will be a favorite urban rail transit system for our other mountain cities, landscape cities, coastal cities, historical and cultural cities, etc. And it has laid a good foundation and favorable conditions for further popularization and application of straddle monorail transit system.
Highlights
Straddle monorail, using rubber wheels and precast concrete track beams, is a kind of distinctive urban rail transit system, featured with strong climbing capability, small turning radius, less land occupation, low noise, moderate volume, and low cost
Monorail is a moderate volume rail transit system with electric vehicles running on a track beam
Editor: Gary Barber positional relationship between the vehicle and the track beam, it can be divided into two types of monorail such as straddle monorail and suspend type monorail
Summary
Among the urban rail transit systems, monorail transit system is a typical and popular system with nearly 50-year safe operation in foreign countries especially in Japan, Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Europe, the USA, Canada, and so on. Monorail is a moderate volume rail transit system with electric vehicles running on a track beam. Straddle monorail is a kind of monorail system, in which the vehicles use rubber wheels traveling across on the track/beam. Except for the sightseeing area or domainspecific (such as airports, schools) small monorail line, monorail has been built or under construction in the world as a moderate volume urban rail transit system, in the following countries: Japan, Canada, the USA, Germany, Russia, India, Malaysia, Brazil, and South Korea. Straddle monorail transit lines in operation and under construction both at home and abroad have exceeded 600 km
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