Monorails are increasingly used in public transit, with around 80% fulfilling this role globally. They offer significant advantages in urban areas, including reduced space requirements, minimal disruption to existing traffic, and the ability to navigate tight curves and steep gradients. Their elevated, rubber-tired design makes them quiet and efficient, with prefabricated infrastructure allowing for fast, low-impact construction. Monorails also support fully automated, driverless operation.

The International Monorail Association has some working groups, that have created documents for Monorail Systems to serve a safe, high quality and reliable total system.

At last year’s Monorailex conference IMA had a panel discussion about the reasons and need of an escape route for passengers and the professionally based explanation of how and whether an escape route can be installed.

The International Monorail Association is excited to invite you to join its 15th annual conference, Monorailex 2023, scheduled to be held in São Paulo, Brazil on October 20 through 22, 2023 with kind support of Metro São Paulo.

With a market volume of more than 2 billion Euro p.a., the monorail market segment is a comparatively small, but dynamically growing segment in the transportation business. This is the outcome of a market study which has been worked out by SCI Verkehr for the International Monorail Association.