3.3 Straddle UMS: Basic Characteristics of Urban Rail System
Good decisions about transportation investments and policies require accurate information on characteristics of Urban Rail system alternatives, including the following:
• Spacing between Stations
• Speed
• Capacity and Body Outline
• Degree of Separation from Road Traffic
• Operating System
• Rolling Stock
• Maximum Curvature
3.3.1 Spacing between Stations
Urban rail has a very close station spacing (about 50-500 m apart). It is much easier for people to move through the mentioned distances by urban rail rather than walk on foot. On the other hand, the long-distance rail stations are much longer in station spacing. (White, 2002) (Nasser, 2012)
3.3.2 Speed
Urban rail speed varies …show more content…
The trains could be fully air conditioned on demand. Each car can carry 15-20 passengers seated and 40-50 passengers standing. Cab cars are 12-15 m long and intermediate cars are 9 – 11 m. Train sizes are various depending on the manufacturer and number of cars attached. Based on their size and number of cars affixed, trains are categorised into three main types; small types have two cars; medium types have three cars and large ones have four to six cars attached.
Monorails are classified into large, medium, and compact systems, depending on the size of the cars and the overall system scale.
In order to meet the demands for cheap, extremely versatile urban transit system particularly common in regional cities around the world, the compact monorail system was developed as a simplified version of its larger counterpart, with a big reduction in size and weight of not only the rail cars, but also ground facilities, such as tracks, columns, and stations, to account for the need to align routes in accordance with the sophisticated road configurations of narrow passages (minimum width 18m) and sharp curve radiuses (minimum radius 35m). (Tarighi, 2011) (Hitachi, 2013)
Compact Monorail
Good decisions about transportation investments and policies require accurate information on characteristics of Urban Rail system alternatives, including the following:
• Spacing between Stations
• Speed
• Capacity and Body Outline
• Degree of Separation from Road Traffic
• Operating System
• Rolling Stock
• Maximum Curvature
3.3.1 Spacing between Stations
Urban rail has a very close station spacing (about 50-500 m apart). It is much easier for people to move through the mentioned distances by urban rail rather than walk on foot. On the other hand, the long-distance rail stations are much longer in station spacing. (White, 2002) (Nasser, 2012)
3.3.2 Speed
Urban rail speed varies …show more content…
The trains could be fully air conditioned on demand. Each car can carry 15-20 passengers seated and 40-50 passengers standing. Cab cars are 12-15 m long and intermediate cars are 9 – 11 m. Train sizes are various depending on the manufacturer and number of cars attached. Based on their size and number of cars affixed, trains are categorised into three main types; small types have two cars; medium types have three cars and large ones have four to six cars attached.
Monorails are classified into large, medium, and compact systems, depending on the size of the cars and the overall system scale.
In order to meet the demands for cheap, extremely versatile urban transit system particularly common in regional cities around the world, the compact monorail system was developed as a simplified version of its larger counterpart, with a big reduction in size and weight of not only the rail cars, but also ground facilities, such as tracks, columns, and stations, to account for the need to align routes in accordance with the sophisticated road configurations of narrow passages (minimum width 18m) and sharp curve radiuses (minimum radius 35m). (Tarighi, 2011) (Hitachi, 2013)
Compact Monorail