Abstract
This chapter deals briefly with the principal technical characteristics of people movers, monorails and rack railways. It also examines the various aspects affecting horizontal alignments, vertical alignments and superstructures of such transport systems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
The following terms are used without distinction: Automated Guided Transit (AGT), People Mover Systems (PMS), Group Rapid Transit (GRT), Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) [1].
- 2.
It is a transportation system in which the total length of the lines ranges from a hectometre (100Â m) to 20 hectometres (2000Â m) approximately [3].
- 3.
In 2005 these transportation systems were already in operation in 26 world airports with lines from 700Â m (Pittsburgh) up to 10Â km (San Francisco) and with most frequent lengths ranging between 1 and 4Â km.
- 4.
All over the world around 250 funiculars are in operation; train speed varies from 3.6Â km/h to 50.4Â km/h.
References
Vuchic VR (2007) Urban transit systems and technology. Wiley
Commission staff working document impact assessment. Commission legislative proposal for a revision of Directive 2000/9/EC relating to cableway installations designed to carry persons
Corriere F (2011) Hectometric transportation systems (in Italian, Impianti ettometrici e infrastrutture puntuali per i trasporti). Franco Angeli Editore
Lea Elliott et al (2010) Guidebook for planning and implementing automated people mover systems at airports. ACRP Report 37. TRB
Pyrgidis CN (2021) Railway transportation systems. CRC Press
IMIT (2001) Guidelines for the design of road infrastructures: D.M. n. 6792, 5/11/2001. Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, Rome, Italy (in Italian)
Nicolardi A (1956) Special railway systems (in Italian, Ferrovie speciali), Casa editrice Dott. Carlo Cya
Liu R (2017) Automated transit. Planning, operation, and applications. Wiley
Guerrieri M, Ticali D (2012) Sustainable mobility in park areas: the potential offered by guided transport systems. In: ICSDC 2011: integrating sustainability practices in the construction industry—proceedings of the international conference on sustainable design and construction 2011, pp 661–668
Guerrieri M, Ticali D (2012) Design standards for converting unused railway lines into greenways. In: ICSDC 2011: integrating sustainability practices in the construction industry—proceedings of the international conference on sustainable design and construction 2011, pp 654–660
Loosli H (1984) Le chemin de fer à crèmaillère—ses particularitès et domaines d’application. Revue Technique Sulzer 2:17–20
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Guerrieri, M. (2023). People Movers, Monorails and Rack Railways. In: Fundamentals of Railway Design. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24030-0_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24030-0_15
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-24029-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-24030-0
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)