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Home / Science / Technology / Transportation / Monorails
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- Automated Beamcarried Traffic - SwedeTrack System of Sweden. Suspended vehicles lower to the ground to avoid any need to build stations. Much other information, many links.
www.swedetrack.com
- Futrex, Inc. - Charleston, SC. System 21 "monobeam".
www.futrexinc.com
- Innovative Transportation Technologies - Descriptions of over 40 electric, automated transport technologies, ranging from conceptual to operational. Includes people movers (supported and suspended systems: monorails) and automated freight systems.
faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans
- Monomobile: Electric Rail Car - Lightweight electric car that attaches to suspended monorail for long trips and can run independently of the rail for local trips.
www.iac.net/~ard
- Monorail Society - All-volunteer organization founded to foster more awareness and promote this unique method of transit: NOT just for theme parks and zoos!
www.monorails.org
- New Century Transportation, Inc. - Firm formed to develop high-speed magnetic levitation monorails.
www.nctransportation.com
- NYTimes.com: The Train You're Never Late For - Published in New York Times Magazine.
www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000611mag-train.html
- Owen Transit Group, Inc. - Engineering firm offering the HighRoad Monorail System: 1 beam, 2-way traffic.
www.OTG-Inc.com
- RUF: Rapid Urban Flexible - Hybrid car/monorail: you drive it on and off roads and monorail tracks as needed.
www.ruf.dk
- Severn-Lamb - SL Monorail Series straddle-beam monorails. Beautiful.
www.severn-lambusa.com/monorail.html
- SkyTran - Personal rapid transit that may go 100 mph and should cost less than roads or traditional fixed guideway rail systems.
www.skytran.net
- stc: Sky Train Corp. - Suspended monorail from Florida.
home1.gte.net/stco
- The New Haven Advocate: Meet George Jetson - Newspaper article on the possibility of installing Skytran in New Haven, Connecticut.
www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=new&db=nac_fea&ref=11460
- Titan Global Technologies, Ltd. - Makes suspended monorails using linear induction magnetic propulsion/brake.
www.jetrail.com
- Walt's Toy Trains - Some pictures of Disneyland monorails.
waltstoytrains.railfan.net
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