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    A monorail is a railway system that uses a single rail or beam as its track. The term comes from combining "mono" meaning one and "rail." Monorails are often elevated and can transport passengers or freight. They are guided and supported by interaction with a single beam. Monorails avoid issues like traffic and can provide passengers with views, but are more expensive to build than conventional rail systems.

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    Monorail: Tramway (Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen)

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    A monorail is a railway system that uses a single rail or beam as its track. The term comes from combining "mono" meaning one and "rail." Monorails are often elevated and can transport passengers or freight. They are guided and supported by interaction with a single beam. Monorails avoid issues like traffic and can provide passengers with views, but are more expensive to build than conventional rail systems.

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    A monorail is a railway system that uses a single rail or beam as its track. The term comes from combining "mono" meaning one and "rail." Monorails are often elevated and can transport passengers or freight. They are guided and supported by interaction with a single beam. Monorails avoid issues like traffic and can provide passengers with views, but are more expensive to build than conventional rail systems.

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    Monorail

    A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a


    beam. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the
    trains traveling on such a beam or track. The term originates from joining
    "mono" (meaning one) and "rail" from 1897,[1] possibly from German
    engineer Eugen Langen, who called an elevated railway system with
    wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension
    Tramway (Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen).[2]

    Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form


    of elevated rail or people mover.[3] More accurately, the term refers to the
    style of track.

    Monorails have found applications in airport transfer and medium


    capacity metros. To differentiate monorails from other transport modes, the
    Monorail Society defines a monorail as a "single rail serving as a track for
    passenger or freight vehicles. In most cases rail is elevated, but monorails
    can also run at grade, below grade or in subway tunnels. Vehicles either
    are suspended from or straddle a narrow guide way. Monorail vehicles are
    wider than the guide way that supports them.

    Monorails are often elevated, sometimes leading to confusion with other


    elevated systems such as the Docklands Light Railway, Vancouver
    SkyTrain, the AirTrain JFK and cable propelled systems like the Cable
    Liner people mover which run on two rails.

    Monorail vehicles often appear similar to light rail vehicles, and can be


    manned or unmanned. They can be individual rigid vehicles, articulated
    single units, or multiple units coupled into trains. Like other advanced rapid
    transit systems, monorails can be driven by linear induction motors; like
    conventional railways, vehicle bodies can be connected to the beam
    via bogies, allowing curves to be negotiated.

    The systems are also urban like conventional parallel railed metro systems
    meaning they serve an urban area. Most cities however, use the name of
    the systems separate like Mumbai has 2 systems namely Mumbai Metro
    and Mumbai Monorail. They are different by technology but similar by
    geography since they travel within the urban limits of Mumbai whereas the
    monorail lines of the Bangkok Metro under construction are regarded as
    part of the same system.

    Differences

    Unlike some trams and light rail systems, modern monorails are always


    separated from other traffic and pedestrians due to the geometry of the rail.
    [citation needed]
     They are both guided and supported via interaction with the
    same single beam, in contrast to other guided systems like rubber-tyred
    metros, the Sapporo Municipal Subway; or guided buses or trams, such
    as Translohr. Monorails do not use pantographs.[citation needed]

    From the passenger's perspective, monorails can have some advantages


    over trains, buses, and automobiles. As with other grade-separated transit
    systems, monorails avoid red lights, intersection turns, and traffic jams.
    [5]
     Surface-level trains, buses, automobiles, and pedestrians can collide
    each one with the other, while vehicles on dedicated, grade-separated
    rights-of-way such as monorails can collide only with other vehicles on the
    same system, with much fewer opportunities for collision. As with other
    elevated transit systems, monorail passengers enjoy sunlight and views
    and by watching for familiar landmarks, they can know better when to get
    off to reach their destinations.[6] Monorails can be quieter than diesel buses
    and trains. They obtain electricity from the track structure, eliminating costly
    and, to many people, unsightly overhead power lines and poles. Compared
    to the elevated train systems of New York, Chicago and elsewhere, a
    monorail beamway casts a narrow shadow

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