In most cases, monorails make the most efficient use of technology, resources, time of the passengers, materials and energy. Monorails can be maintained more efficiently than any other competing railway system or any elevated rail system. Also, it can be constructed at lower cost because it is less elaborate and less massive infrastructure are involved. Monorail uses less material than highway constructions. For instance buses, when they are huge, they ruin the surface along the routes. The lighter weight vehicles require much less massive infrastructure, greatly reducing the use of construction materials and natural resources. Essentially more resilient, and subject to less destructive loads and forces, this new infrastructure is anticipated to last one hundred years without replacement.
Monorails use the main levels of system safety control, GPS, security and general operations technology available for ground transportation. Its manufacturing processes are now clever of making vehicles of mainly complex materials; while making a new infrastructure construction is advanced far ahead of any other means of transportation. Monorails can transport passengers more efficiently than other mode of transport because of their ability to operate at much higher speeds within separate right of way corridors, while operating above streets, highways, pedestrian and all other sceneries, to bring passengers efficiently to their destinations.
The safety technology, advanced manufacturing and operational of monorails license safe and efficient operation at two-minute head starts between trains, leading to capacities over 50,000 passengers per hour, per rail. Such flexible arrangement and service leads to very efficient and cost effective servic...
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...ffectively connected or served by any other mode of transportation. The most strategic advantage monorails hold over all other modes of transportation is derived from their ability to be constructed and operated on property, and in locations and environments that are unsuitable for any other type of transportation infrastructure development or normal operations. The American Monorail-designed cargo monorail system linking the Port of Long Beach to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad yard is located in the upper bank right of way of the Los Angeles River for its entire 20-mile length. Note the blue line on the opposite bank, which indicates the path of a passenger monorail system between the City of Long Beach and Los Angeles Union Station, and extending along the river to Warner Center in the West San Fernando Valley, a continuous fifty miles from Long Beach
When time came to build the transcontinental railroads, the government had given about 150 millions of acres of land for the railroad development, which would greatly influence transporta...
In Henry George’s article, What the Railroad Will Bring Us, it discusses the main social, political, and economic transformations that the trans-continental railroad would bring to the state of California. More importantly, he discusses not only the benefits, but also discusses the major drawbacks with the arrival of the railroad. Henry George stated the railroad would be the “greatest work of the age” (297). With a railroad stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, multiple benefits would be brought to the state of California. First, the railroad will not only create a new means of transportation across the United States, it additionally would also become “one of the greatest material prosperity” of its time (298). This means more people, more houses,
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has a very interesting background on why it started. Many years after the American Revolution a large number of people began to migrate west over the Cumberland Narrows, which is two mountains with a narrow gap in-between located in western Maryland. The Cumberland Narrows was also an early traveling path to the boat building centers located in Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. It was also the same route George Washington took for Braddock’s Expedition, an attempt to capture the French Fort Duquesne which failed. The route had become famous as the Cumberland Road which was one of the five passes through the rough Appalachians. Now that multitudes of people were moving to the West, it was a chance to make profit. While water transport and travel was the hottest technology of the day, some of Baltimore’s business community wanted something new and different that would also generate wealth. The intelligent comm...
The transcontinental railroad was a 1,800 mile railroad linking Omaha, Missouri with Sacramento, California. This railroad was built through varying environmental conditions including grassy plains, desserts, and mountains such as the Sierra. The railroad revolutionized transportation in the nineteenth century (Galloway 4). The First Transcontinental Railroad was built in the 1860s in order to connect the Eastern and Western coasts of the United States. In the book The Railroads, statistical data describes that “In 1830, 23 miles of railroad track were being operated in the United States; by 1890 that figure had grown to 166,703 miles, as cities and villages were linked across the lan...
Railroads were America’s first big business and contributed a great deal towards advancing industrialization. Beginning in the early 1870's, railroad construction in the United States expanded substantially. Before the year 1871, approximately fourty-five thousand miles of track had been laid. Up until the 1900's another one-hundred and seventy thousand miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. This growth came about due to the erection of transcontinental railroads. Railroads supplied cities and towns with food, fuel, materials, and access to markets. The railroad system made way for an economic prosperity. The railroad system helped to build the physical growth of cities and towns. It even became another means of communication. Most importantly, it helped to produce a second
This essay will encounter The Long Island Rail Road first years making. The rail road was developed because the rail roads planners wanted to expand a way to get to Boston. In order for this view to happen, the service needed to make rail-road through Long Island, so they made the LIRR with the help of legislature supplying the money with 1,500,000$. This caused for New York or Brooklyn to be linked to Boston. Even though the money was good start for making the rail road, it was still very difficult to make so they to find ways to make it more efficient.
The railroad played a major role in forging the history of many countries including the United States of America. The railroad began to bring people to places that before then where only accessed by weeks of dangerous travel over harsh and deadly terrain. The industrial revolution had ushered in a completely new era. The new era was one of mass production, supply and demand, and new requirements of industry. The growth of industry had created new demands for transit, trade, and more robust supply lines. The railroad boom across the U.S. had spread and proceeded to grow the economy quickly therefore, many people began using the rail roads just as quickly. The rail market continued to grow and by the 1860’s all major cities within the United States were connected by rail.
Maglev, short for magnetic levitation, is a new system being used in the design of train railways. These maglev trains are using electromagnetically-driven systems to achieve high –speed transportation. These trains move through electromagnetic propulsion, levitating over a guideway.
With the opening of America’s first roller coaster in 1873, a new innovative market was introduced into the American industrial market. With it came a new set of challenges that pushed the limits of the engineering methods used at the time. Oddly enough though, America’s safest roller coaster ever built was also the simplest; the Mauch Chunk Railway was originally used to bring coal down the mountainside of a Pennsylvania mine. The now unused 2,322 feet of track was re-opened a few months later for the purpose of carrying passengers down the side of the mountain. The rail cars used did not have brakes or an engine; they simply used the force of gravity to take the train and its passengers, sometimes at speeds upwards of 60 miles per hour, down the side of the mountain until it came to a rest at the bottom. “The railway offered spectacular views of the Lehigh River and the Blue Ridge Mountains for the region's visitors to see. The area became a large Nineteenth Century tourist attraction and people came from all over to be thrilled by the M.C.R.” (Sandy). Throughout the ride’s 56-year span of passenger operation, not a single injury was reported. Since the ever-simplistic entertainment methods of the 1920’s, our industrial capabilities have grown in geometric proportions; however the one problem is they have been severely lagged by the safety and control systems that govern them. Recently, however, advancements in computer technology have yielded a drastic improvement in these control systems that have allowed ride designers to design increasingly safer and more reliable ride systems.
The world of Model Train Building has grown greatly with the aid of computers and technology to enhance the fun of building. Technology has long been a part of Model Train building with the adding of lights, bells, and whistles to capture your interest and imagination. But with the latest generation of building comes the influx of technology and the computer. The computer brings along a new breed of builders who plan track layout, buy parts on the Internet, receive updated news, and chat with other enthusiast.
In 1903, the Pacific Electric Railroad line was built as public transportation to connect Las Angeles to all of the new cities and countries developing at the time. Los Angeles’ success drained natural resources by this time, the turn of the century, and the need for water was important as it always has been. Water was simply running low and a solution had to be assembled; this problem was solved by the making of an aqueduct in 1913. The plans for the replenishment were to use this aqueduct to bring water from the Owen’s Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which is over 230 miles away. This was great for booming business and residents, and agribusiness, groups of industries dealing with agricultural produce and services, made it at this time. Las Angeles turned out to be the largest agricultural producer in America. Las Angeles, California has had a steady growth in population from this point in history to current
Abstract- Maglev trains, also known as magnetic levitation trains, are public transportation vehicles that are commonly used in Spain, China, and other parts around the world. They are mainly known for using magnetism in order to "levitate" above the tracks. Maglev trains are also known to be remotely quieter than normal trains and emit lower amounts of carbon dioxide.
Track-caused accidents are the second leading cause of all train accidents. The challenge to these rail companies are endless in accomplishing their number one mission of safety. Today, it takes superhuman effort to inspect thousands of miles of tracks. • All tracks must be inspected two times per week; • Labor intensive operation
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
The research is able giving a chance to let us conduct a research in our university and addressing the issues might be involved. There are making our research can get the suggestion or opinion among UUM students towards the rail transportation. The factor that influenced the social behavior can be identified while conduct the research. We believe that the research we conducted can be explored more suggestion on solutions to improve the rail transport services and it will be mentioned in conclusion part.