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.

We encourage and invite professionals across the world to submit paper proposals for the Monorailex 2024 Conference, scheduled to be held in Neumarkt, Germany on September 20 through 22, 2024 with kind support of Max Bögl followed by a visit to InnoTrans in Berlin.

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.

Worldwide, around 80 percent of monorails fulfil a transport task in public transit, and thanks to their economic advantages and shorter implementation times, the trend is rising. Monorails are not only convincing on greenfield sites; they offer decisive advantages especially in developed or rapidly growing urban areas as the systems can be implemented most easy in highly dense and busy environment. The elevated construction reduces the space requirement to a minimum and does not lead to a displacement of existing surface traffic.