4) Seattle, Washington Seattle monorail was opened in 1962. That means I've left out costs for any design and project administration, maintenance facilities and even station construction. Found inside – Page 16The Osaka Loop Monorail program is a planning of a big loop line , approx . 50 km in length and passing through satellite cities around the City of Osaka . Now the construction work is put forward at a 13.7 km section from the starting ... Recent Light Rail Project Costs. The original 1067mm (3foot-6inch, “pioneer”, “colonial” ) gauge was chosen for lower construction cost reasons (or because narrow gauge in the colonies was “traditional”, or because of export cartel agreements.). Monorail nirvana has been just around the corner for decades. a recent study. COSTS WITH OTHER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, SEE. I’m using headline numbers, which may even include vehicles. Execution Period for the Monorail of 6 October City: 42 months starting from 1/1/2020. APPROXIMATE COST ESTIMATE PER MILE (1.6 KM) Mobilization costs (Contracts for Design, Engineering, Built There are very few examples of this. The costs quoted by Transrapid for Australian maglevs are also similar to other fast rail and in fact cheaper than many conventional rail projects undertaken in Australia recently. [Source: Monorail Malaysia, "Technical Characteristics", 23 May 2002], With regard to the current privately financed monorail project of I can assure you it’s a picture, because I took it myself The • Cost per km of track under construction varies considerably by region, rail type and project sta-tus. Taking present conversion factor of 1USD=63.37INR, the final project cost for phase-1 translates to about USD1,832 million. About a third of the line is underground. So, same amount of “visual intrusiveness”. This finding is consistent with figures published by Warren and in a recent evaluation of the Seattle Green Line Monorail projection of costs. about equal to that of Mexico, but only one third of Japan's and 1/4 that of the USA.). for the Urbanaut� Can anyone give me more info? (For example, according to the CIA World system (which requires the addition of rail structure above the From construction point of view, it is easier and cheaper to lay Monorail lines than Metro lines. Cost Estimates for Types 1,2 and 3, 1. Passenger without the significant infrastructure costs, construction timelines, or traffic strains caused by typical rail projects. Easy to Build. Rolling and I don’t know why people would take an issue with having a monorail above their streets. In Rhode Island fares cover 28% of operating costs. It’s thinner since the train partially dangles. Found inside – Page 175Detailed construction costs for an ALWEG system are available only for the Haneda Monorail Line ; these are shown in ... TOTAL COST COST / KM ( Excluding Land & General Expense ) 21,119,908,000 YEN1 1,423,854,000 YEN PERCENT 1.6 0.3 8.1 ... evacuation walkway and cable trays would surely widen the lateral [Source: … ESTIMATE PER MILE (1.6 KM), F.  Fees & Hmmm… but then, what about the Japanese main network, or South Africa? Andrew, the reason that debate in the USA seem to be “winner take all:” is because it really is winner take all. Las Vegas Monorail (Bombardier M-VI) The Las Vegas Monorail, which opened in 2004, cost $654 million for just 4.4 miles—almost $150 million per mile. The monorail line currently has six stations. It includes a diagram of monorail structures, which can be seen to be quite light and thin. You might as well ask why North American mainline trains with their extra-UIC loading gauges don’t use a larger (more appropriate) Russian 1520mm track gauge. URBANAUT� Alon, the figures I found for monorails (I assume the straddle type) is a minimum curve radius of 50m~120m. Buildings, v        guidelines for an, INTERMEDIATE SIZE SYSTEM                TYPE I, INTERMEDIATE SIZE SYSTEM                TYPE II, F.  Fees & If you can stick LRT in a median, that’s going to be cheaper than monorail. headway, the capacity of the Kuala Lumpur system, using Tokyo-Haneda Monorail. MGM-Bally's Monorail. regard to the monorail system currently being installed by Monorail Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, While cost per passenger-mile or pasenger-km was not presented, Parkinson did show that staff productivity, in terms of annual passenger-miles per employee, was about 65% higher on SkyTrain than on LRT in San Diego, 83% higher than on LRT in Calgary, and 115% higher than on San Francisco's BART rapid transit system. The length of alignment is 508 Km (approx.) Surface are based upon experience on monorail technology by a The speed of the straddle monorail can reach 80 kilometers per hour. About wider gauge, per se, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was definitely right with the wider gauge for the Great Western Railway; those few centimeters more space between the wheelsets allowed for a better firebox and combustion. 30 th Jan 2014: São Paulo tenders for it's third major monorail line. dimension of any US elevated fixed-guideway structure. Grade separation: As with any grade separated rail or busway, is not dependent on street traffic conditions. Likewise, in any sort of greenfield development where you can reserve real estate for at-grade heavy rail, that’s going to beat monorail on cost while equaling its safety and travel time. The truth is that the cost would be much, much higher. There is an expected 130% hike in the per-trip cost of operation from ₹4,600 to ₹10,600. costs of monorail systems, particularly compared to light rail Malaysia (see photo at right). 2 nd Feb 2014: First 10km of Mumbai's new 22 km Scomi monorail opens ($US170 million or $US22 million / km. of The one Japanese project more recent than the JRTR article, the Okinawa Monorail, built from 1996 to 2003, was $1.1 billion for 13 km: $85 million per km. The cost cited on the Monorail Society’s webpage is less than a third that amount. Special elevated structures that I havent seen it in person, but pictures of the Sao Paulo construction show a much less intrusive structure than standard elevated rail. This implementation is a just a short shuttle (880m) between airport terminal and commuter train station, and yes, it consists of a small-ish cabin (up to 150 people) running back and forth on a single track on 5-10 minutes cycles. Supporters of monorail and other sleek structures argue that because the structures are thinner than conventional rail viaducts, they’re cheaper and more aesthetic. That’s the reason for the question. layout of the monorail guideway, along with the station location and $2.40 Mill, C.  Maintenance However, I’m sure they would be happy to provide data to back the numbers up. light-capacity system with short, 21-meter-long, 2-unit trainsets Found inside – Page 504Note : ( $ ) 0.50 ( Yen ) 0.40 100 - * -- under ground railway ( 1 ) construction cost 21.4 million $ per K.M. --- 0 ... per K.M. 0.30 0.20 50 A monorail 0.15 Cost per person - kirometer 40 30 construction cost 4.6 million $ per K.M. -A ... The places with the really low clearances, like possibly the Park Avenue tunnel, are likely to just stay third rail. stations, and the project is reported to have a budgeted cost of RM 1.18 billion (about $310.5 million in While the "Cost Of Depot" is a relatively small item for the Urbanaut�, Even for Kathmandu, September 13. Counting the 7.8 km of construction work (and not just the 6.7 km in operation), the cost per kilometer of line 17 is approximately R$580 million. Mumbai Monorail has a top speed of 80 Km per hour, but will run between 30 to 40 Km per hour. A quick summary (with some of my notes included): Pros: Guideway, Found inside – Page 4In October 1972 , a 8,300 driverless capsules , each seating at 30 kilometers ( 18.6 miles ) per hour . test course was set up in the Tokyo four passengers . The construction cost of the CVS compound of the Mechanical TechPassengers ... That's 1312 passengers per month which is a lot. The designer of one in China estimates that it would be at least 5x less expensive than a comparable subway (https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/sky-train-on-test-in-chengdu.html), which seems a remarkably low figure. With such high intensity of usage, the new line is projected to cost $25,000 per daily rider. “Wuppertaler Schwebebahn Overpass” (left) and the … This is causing headaches OVER A HUNDRED YEARS LATER. Mumbai: India’s only Monorail operational cost to more than double as per latest development. Including Foundations                                   42%    Monorail advocates often argue that the ostensibly simpler beam The competitors for funding aren’t different technical “solutions” in a transportation corridor, they are different corporations withing the transit-industrial complex. Kitakyushu Monorail. As a result of these and other factors, the data in Tables 1 and 2 guidelines for an [Sources: Capital Metro Rapid Transit Project. Comprehensive and reliable cost data are essential for installed in this section, nor is there any plan for a drip pan APPROXIMATE COST In the past cars were shorter- 18m, 16m in some cases. Operating. Limited walk-through capacity for emergencies. the flexibility to integrate future expansion or deletion, which could controls, Depot:                 Equipment and Control Center, AFC:                    Automated Fare Collection  System. regard to monorail systems, it can be seen that, with an average (pphpd). Cost per Loose CY And Ton for Grid Rolling in Idaho and Montana ..... 74 Table 57. It embraces: 1. ), or $85 million per km, all elevated. Found inside – Page 34This two mile ( 3.6 km ) , eight station loop will be built for about $ 40 million . The system will carry about 5000 passengers an hour at ... With subway construction of $ 160 million per mile , monorails will cost one third as much . The straddle monorail is a medium-traffic rail transit system with low investment, short cycle, intelligent environmental protection, strong applicability and small floor space. For example, monorail switches appear to entail more A bit more expensive to implement, a bit more expensive to maintain but probably cheaper than building new tunnels under the Hudson. Found inside – Page 148Though elevated or aerial lines are expensive in initial construction, their maintenance cost is very low. ... A ballasted track costs Rs 10 to 12 million per km, whereas ballastless track would cost about Rs 30 million per km (in 2004 ... ppp? Including Foundations                       41.8%    =   $11.70 Mill, B. And yes, it’s can be categorized as an automatic people mover. For the 3.6-mile For  of Kuala Lumpur project.             Communication, v        The new vehicles will run on two lines, with 42 train sets servicing the new 34.5 km Khae Rai-MinBuri (Pink) Line and 30 train sets for the 30.4 km Lat Phrao-Samrong (Yellow) Line. According to the company, the average construction cost of every kilometer of the monorail track is around 200 million yuan, much lower than the over 600 million yuan cost of subway construction. 4-car trains. Thanks, I was looking for Sao Paulo monorail cost figures but couldn’t find any. The maintenance costs are 0,29 C/km which seems to be the same as 0,29C/tile. URBANAUT� Planning of the monorail in Moscow started in 1998. where the monorail would be routed over public roadway and And, for a total of 42.30 km of length, the per km cost translates to USD 43.31 million per km. Basically, per passenger-mile, the monorail service is collecting nearly eight times the fare revenue that the citywide system is. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. OF SINGLE GUIDEWAY AT SURFACE judged to be the most accurate for competent analyses. The Monorail 300 system has an aluminium body, steel under frame and a composite end cap. The most recent one in Japan, in Chiba, cost about what I’d expect of an urban el (link). Found insideThe bridges would run like endless viaducts across flat ground and look a lot like the Disney monorail running across ... American engineers put the cost of railway building in the United States at $400 per foot, and bridge building at ... Now if monorails could be built along/above motorways and achieve such speeds… remember to wave to the slow people down below stuck in congestion as you go by. The new vehicles will run on two lines, with 42 train sets servicing the new 34.5 km Khae Rai-MinBuri (Pink) Line and 30 train sets for the 30.4 km Lat Phrao-Samrong (Yellow) Line. Elevated Single Guideway. Place of Monorail In The Family of Transit Modes This section will identify the place of the monorail in the family of transit modes by considering its performance and the areas of its application seen in Japan. On 11 November 2008, Larsen and Toubro, along with the Malaysian partners Scomi Engineering Bhd, were awarded a ₹ 24.6 billion (US$340 million) contract to build and operate the monorail until 2029. capacity of about 9,000 passengers per hour per direction (in the photo of the Las Vegas monorail project individual systems exceeding $200 million per mile, these $15 million/km 1964. Compare with the 17% underground Dubai Metro, mentioned in my previous post, which costs half as much per km. The cost of its construction varies from 17 to 100 and more million USD per kilometer. Found inside – Page 2-15Monorail costs include construction of an elevated structure for a distance of 36.8 km ( 23 mi ) . The cost effectiveness is estimated at $ 70.11 , with a per - passenger subsidy of $ 3.46 . The capital costs do not include ... headway, the capacity of the Kuala Lumpur system, using Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Kuala Lumpur project. This includes a total capital cost of $1.26 billion and a total discounted stream of operating costs of $420 million (at approximately $29 million a year), using the same discount rate (7.95%). Depot:                 Equipment and Control Center, v        Found inside – Page 22ET anstr Jakarta Monorails Could Benefit Cash - Strapped Cities J Blue Line . ese , ” Sutiyoso said . ... “ Many far - eastern cities are for the Blue Line and 5000 pphpd for the would give a projected cost per km of $ US not willing to ... A Quebec study conducted by the Montréal Institute for Research in Contemporary Economics (IREC) (Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine) has established in 2010 the construction costs of the suspended monorail to be 12 M$ per kilometer between Montréal and Québec (a distance of some 250 km) and 9M$/km for subsequent lines, which is approximately … Power, Signals, and Moving Block Control                     6%    =    $ they should try ppp. (1) “less visually intrusive” — maybe in countries which don’t require emergency walkways. Foundations for poor soil conditions show a lower cost, 0.16 Euro per passenger-km, which is the same level as for the Stockholm Metro system (108 km; 800 metro-cars). There might not be enough clearance for 25kV. The concrete slab serves both as support for the rails and duct through which the air is pushed onto sails bolted underneath the vehicle. . constrained capacity. Burning the Midnight Oil for Energy Independence, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Akron, Cleveland Arts And Livable City Blog, Jim Aloisi, Trimount Consulting and Board Member at TransitMatters. This light capacity ie, can pylons be built so cheaply and be erected as quickly as they claim. New & Refurbished High Speed Rail Track costs per Mile / Km, Traffic Control Systems, Signals, Freight Siding Cost Metrics, Detailed Design & Construction Management / Inspection historical benchmarks. It doesn’t look all that much different to me. Found inside – Page 144... design, construction and financing for a BRT, it is always projected as a low-cost option in the cities of developing countries when compared with railway. Many reports compared the cost of BRT per kilometre with the cost of ... To a considerable extent, much of the available data in terms of Urban Monorails: To fund the construction of the massive projects, BYD in June set up two separate funds with partners to raise 1.5 billion yuan and 350 million yuan respectively. Factbook, Malaysia had a per-capita GDP of $9,000 in 2001, of monorail systems, and how that compares with the costs of The Newark Airport Monorail is being constructed by AEG Monorail Systems, Inc. (AEG) for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority). other rules prevalent in the USA. The cost of running Mumbai’s monorail project is expected to shoot up with operators demanding a higher rate. Or just a multi-pole switch. C.  Maintenance facilitate emergency evacuation if necessary – which would appear to be mandatory in a US elevated Rolling Stock (Vehicles), 3. This is in a country where fully underground subways average about $150 million per km; but I cannot find cost figures for other lines in Chongqing itself, and any help would be appreciated. would undoubtedly impact visual and aesthetic characteristics of proposal), FOR COMPARISON OF Cost/Year Info Source System Status; Hitachi. (This is the exactly the same as with US military procurement.) The average operating costs for the 22 Automated Guided systems in USA cost 0.12 Euro per passenger-km and the Commuter rail network in Stockholm (186 km: 292 vehicles) cost 0.10 €/pass-km. True! “The one-way LRT ticket price would probably be 100 baht or more. The scuttlebutt on the Metro North boards is that Metro North selected 12.5 kV because going to 25kV wouldn’t have done much for them and there would have been a lot of work to get the clearance on a lot of bridges/overpasses. It could be that the reason is the loading gauge (in other words, the width) and the length of the carbodies; the very tight curves in the cities you mention are on lines with short carbodies, together with relatively big distances between the cars. Found inside – Page 3-13The fare box for the system is targeted to be equivalent to the bus system , which is 200 Yen ( US $ 1.66 ) for the first 2 - km then 60 Yen ( US 50 cents ) per km thereafter . It is anticipated that the 40 % of the system cost provided ... I’m putting my money on asphyxiation or trauma as the leaping passenger hit the pavement. layout of the monorail guideway, along with the station location and No offense intended, fmobus… Actually, the system should work reasonably well, even over several kilometers; Isambard Kingdom Brunel proved that with the “atmospheric railway” between Exeter and Newton Abbot on the Great Western Railway. The lowest cost of this would D + E + G = £37.0m The highest cost would be C + E + J + H + F = £68.9m The costs indicate the following broad costs for railway infrastructure: • • Reopening a single track railway –open line £4.5m per mile • Single platform terminus station £2.5m • Double track terminus station £5m Passing loop £4m It is not almost under construction in Tel Aviv. These structural elements foundation'         22%    =     $2.00 Mill So of course there is no consideration of cost-effectiveness and no identification of “needs and parameters”, because none of those are in any way relevant to the goal of locking in particular and vendors at maximum cost.                   slab, guide rail, B. The cost of 17 miles (27 km) of highway improvements and 19 miles (31 km) of double-track light rail worked out to $19.3 million per highway lane-mile and $27.6 million per LRT track-mile. The cost of the monorail service was estimated in 2010 to be ₹ 2.0 billion (roughly ₹ 850 million (US$12 million) per km). monorail technology means much less system spread, and less In some parts of the world, the tiny loading loading gauge (and sharp curvatures, and light-weight track, and poor track alignment, and light axle limits, etc) was progressively overcome, while retaining the tiny track gauge for compatibility reasons. For example, monorail switches appear to entail more grade-separated in some fashion, usually elevated. As an alternative to subways, the two governments settled on introducing a monorail system, which entails relatively low construction cost and low environmental impact. This 1.9 km long monorail with two I was just trying to see which was the best way to go. ( Log Out /  While neither of these systems were ever deployed – for reasons unknown to me. OF SINGLE ELEVATED GUIDEWAY Its total cost was R$ 3 billion for 17km, which comes out as R$ 170 million/km. - Both design and construction costs can be reduced . Found inside – Page 175Detailed construction costs for an ALWEG system are available only for the Haneda Monorail Line ; these are shown in ... COST / KM ( Excluding Land & General Expense ) 1,423,854,000 YEN PERCENT 1.6 0.3 8.1 7.6 7.8 Ten ALWEG monorail ... mono rail = one rail, as with the Schwebebahn where the train is supended from the monorail. Elevated Single Single Guideway at Surface, Comparison of Found inside – Page 5The elevated monorail will carry 10,000 persons per hour on 90 cars to 12 stations . Construction cost is estimated at $ 1.6 million per km , compared with $ 10 million / km for the subway and $ 5.6-7.2 million for surface roadway . The Dubai monorail cost is 380 million USD and equivalent to 56 million round trip return ticket with 6.8 USD cost per round trip. public right-of-way not available), 2. Each train has 4 interconnected coaches/rakes. Even and, in some cases, from highly reliable projections, are generally OK, in both places, the loading gauge is comparable to the UIC loading gauge for European standard gauge. Mumbai Monorail: the master plan is to spend 20,000 crore on 135 km, which after PPP conversion is $66 million per km. Most of the alignment, about 92.4%, will be elevated and a small portion of about 2.5% will be on the cut & fill section. (2) “capable to handle tighter curves with tilting” — no, conventional rail can handle tighter curves than monorail. Found inside – Page 54The construction cost of substructures of the new transport systems is , on the average , about a half of the total ... Town ) Kanazawa Seaside Line ( Yokohama City ) Naha Line ( Nana City ) Length Passengers Construction ( km ) per day ... The consultant estimates suggest costs may be only 50% of the Alweg type technology because of Urbanaut's ® many features discussed above. This is logical, since Japan is undoubtedly the world and unforeseen underground conditions, 7. Urbanaut�has Ticket cost for Mumbai Monorail is between Rs 11 and Rs 30. The first experience in Arabian Peninsula has … i guess they got good experiences with that scheme, they're building … Found inside – Page 33These monorails will be carrying peak-loads above 25,000 passengers per hour per direction, the heaviest loads carried ... Another recurrent problem for São Paulo Metro is the high cost/km of construction of underground metros which is ... Urbanaut, The graphical cost illustration shown But what does real-world experience tell us about the actual costs F.  Fees & hardly bear out assertions that monorails are roughly equivalent in “Building a dedicated bus lane costs just Rs.10 crore per km. complicated machinery, and have a significantly higher cost – FOR Monorail: "The costs of building monorail and light rail are about the same. 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