Why Monorail Systems Provide a Great Solution for Metropolitan Areas

Abstract

Faced with the escalating demand for public transportation in metropolitan areas, transportation authorities are challenged to select a technology that will satisfy the often conflicting demands of high capacity and reliable service, urban fit, minimized environmental impact and budget restrictions. There are many technologies available today that can provide medium to high capacity mass transit service, however, in many cases these technologies are costly or are not suited to today’s urban environment. High capacity has typically implied costly underground tunneling or obtrusive elevated metro systems that required extensive infrastructure disruption. Although monorail systems have been around for some time, only recent developments such as Bombardier’s INNOVIA Monorail 300 System have permitted transit authorities to now consider monorail as a mainstream contender to meet their mass transit requirements.