Crt line 3 and the branch line branded as airport line runs from north to south, linking the districts separated by chongqing s two main rivers, the yangtze chang jiang and jialing rivers. In the 1950s, a german company by the name of alweg pioneered this technology, and installed its first system at walt disneyland in california fig. Monorail in chinas chongqing runs through residential blocks asia times. Yongkui wen vice professor, beijing jiaotong university. The first chongqing monorail line from jiaochangkou to dongwuyuan stations. The metros three lines use heavy monorail technology as a means for this to work. The utility model discloses a kind of straddletype monorail urail girder system system, comprising. Most successful wheeled monorails today can trace their roots to the straddle beam alweg type monorail technology including the extensive chongqing monorail.
Straddletype monorail systems with driverless train. Crt line 3 and the branch line branded as airport line runs from north to south, linking the districts separated by chongqings two main rivers, the yangtze chang jiang and jialing rivers. Xiaolong tian secretary general, chongqing international monorail association. Chinas first urban monorail system in chongqing pdf. On the hilly roads in the center of chongqing city in china, traffic congestion composed of buses, taxis, and private cars is particularly bad, and the. The straddlebeam monorail system uses a vehicle that straddles a reinforced beam. Monorail is a public rail transport system using rubber tires and running on a single beam with private rightofway prow. The chongqing rail transit is a unique transit system in china because of the geography of chongqing being a denselypopulated but mountainous city, with multiple river valleys.
The chongqing monorail also is the only monorail system in the world with an xshaped crossover point. The initial segment from lianglukou to yuanyang 18 stations, 17. Being arranged on two sparboxes 1 lower section the base plate 2 connected two sparboxes 1 bottom, this base plate 2 and described two sparboxes 1 form ushaped structure on cross section. The electrical components supplied to the beijing subway made a major contribution to improving the convenience of transportation during the beijing 2008 olympic games, while the monorail supplied to chongqing has been providing the people of. Chongqing rail transit has the longest and busiest monorail system in the world. Pdf detection and alleviation of the abnormal vibration of the. This video documents traveling on the chongqing monorail, and seeing various sights in the city. Emerge catheter is designed for exceptional simultaneous use performance.
Chongqing in the southwest has the countrys longest monorail network in operation, with line 3 recording close to 1 million journeys during peak hours, according to local media. Media in category rolling stock of chongqing rail transit line 2 the following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total. China s first urban monorail system in chongqing 194 radius of curvature of the track is 100 m, maximum gradient is 50, and the minimum radius of curvature of the train depot is 50 m. Line 2 of crt runs southeastward from jiaochangkou to yudong.
The caiyuanba yangtze river bridge is a key project connecting segments of the newly planned southnorth corridor. Optimization study on the influencing factors for tire. Urban monorail system in chongqing described the features of the chongqing monorail no. Chinas first urban monorail system in chongqing 194 radius of curvature of the track is 100 m, maximum gradient is 50, and the minimum radius of curvature of the train depot is 50 m. London docklands light rail 1987 chongqing monorail 2004 byd motors, inc. Pdf abnormal wear analysis of straddletype monorail vehicle. Shan shi senior engineerdirector, market development center. Recognizing the companys excellent reputation in building smaller, standard, costeffective monorail systems, hitachi was also chosen to build sentosa express new monorail system connecting singapore to sentosa island see fig. The chongqing metro has a total of 264 kilometers in track length spread among six commercial lines and 153 stations, with more stations coming soon. Among its lines, the line 2 monorail is the first urban metro in chinas western regions, as well as chinas first straddlebeam monorail line. The number of visitors from overseas railway operation companies increased dramatically this year too, particularly from russia, uzbekistan, germany, singapore, malaysia and mexico. Cn205688287u straddletype monorail urail girder system.
The first phase of the line began construction on 5 april 2007. Two lines use heavymonorail technology, leveraging the ability to negotiate steep grades. Chinas first urban monorail system in chongqing pdf format. The monorail beam z20625 of chongqing straddle monorail transit system was selected as the research object. One example is in chongqing, china, where two lines of the citys rapid transit network utilize monorail technology. The qinggui or light rail is a combination of above ground monorail and. Craig moore reports from chongqing in january 2019. Line 2 provides a larger system length and average stop spacing than those. Straddletype monorail vehicle operation reliability evaluation index system. The chongqing rail transit crt is a rapid transit system in chongqing, china. Chongqing into three parts, as shown in the project location map in figure 1. Two lines use heavymonorail technology, leveraging the ability to negotiate steep grades and tight curves and rapid transit capacity. In all, overseas visitors from over 20 countries and regions attended. The project, which was funded by the japan bank for.
The line was chinas first heavy monorail line, built using hitachi monorail technology. Situated in the upper floors of a highrise block in da ping station, an integrated government office housing an operations room and other management. July 31st, at liziba in yuzhong district of chongqing, the line 2 monorail passes through a building. In this paper, the monorail beam under the hitachi train moving loads with different speeds of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60.
Just a brief glimpse here, but i shot footage with canon 650d china trains. To perform service evaluation, an integrated process combining capacity. The city has a stunning location, engulfed by mountains and valleys, with the city centre full of highrise. Dynamic response of a monorail under a moving train. As the first urban monorail introduced in china, the chongqing monorail was opened to the. This project adopts the system of straddletype monorail, reaching a length of 31 kilometers, with. Chongqing handbook all essential information you need to know about chongqing. The chongqing metro charges depending on the distance travelled.
Known as the mountain city, the whole city is built against a backdrop of hills and rivers. The passenger capacity is 36, passengers per hour in each way. Some caveats are in order with regard to the monorail system currently being installed by monorail malaysia in kuala lumpur, malaysia see photo at right. The chongqing metro line 3 has a mix of 6 and 8 car trains operating on it. Future railway technologies for satisfying social needs. The term originates from joining mono and rail from 1897,1 possibly from. The entire wikipedia with video and photo galleries for each article.
This article highlights the main features of hitachis. Elevated subways or monorail lines snaking through urban jungles in modern cities have become the norm. Chongqing monorail, an excursion through the city in dec 2012 sd version on vimeo. The system began operations on 18 th june 2005, and presently has 4 lines that serve 92 stations. Pdf on the chongqings straddletype monorail train in china, serious abnormal wear. Two lines use heavy monorail technology, leveraging the ability to negotiate steep grades and tight curves and rapid transit capacity. The spatial coupling vibration model of vehiclebridge system was established and. Media in category chongqing rail transit the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
Chongqing metro heavy monorail technology as well as being one of the biggest cities in china, chongqing is also one of the fastestgrowing regions. Shaft profile allows for simultaneous use of two monorail catheters in a 6 f guide catheter and two overthewire catheters in an 8 f guide catheter 6 f guide catheter with a minimum 0. Monorail is a rubberwheeled mass rapid transit running on a single beam and the car is wider than the beam. Despite having been conceptualized in th e 19th century, today there. The author contrastive analysis of the different influencing factors for tire wear in chongqing monorail transit line 3 according to the tire wear phenomenon of the monorail vehicle operation in the past years, focuses on the situation of tire tread wear, puts forwards. Administratively, it is one of chinas four directcontrolled municipalities the other three are beijing, shanghai and tianjin, and the only such municipality in china located far away from the coast the municipality was created on 14 march 1997 to help the three gorges dam. New urban transport system for middle east monorail.
With the majority of the population depended on buses for transportation, the chongqing provides a reliable and cheap means of transportation to match the growth of the city. By studying the experimental results of chongqing straddle monorail, an indirect detection method of the wheel out of round is put forward. Chongqing rail transit is the public metro system of chongqing, china, operated by the chongqing rail transit group limited co. On the hilly roads in the center of chongqing city in china, traffic congestion composed of buses, taxis, and private cars is predominantly bad, and the exhaust fumes. All stations are long enough to accomodate 8 car trains however the platform scre. The research on operational reliability evaluation of. The trains on line 10, chonhqing links jiangbei airport and chongqing north railway stationare equipped with a luggage rack on each car. Optimization study on the influencing factors for tire wear. It was subsequently expanded 1 june 2006 from zoo to xinshancun, and on 30 december 2014 to yudong. Downtown chongqing lies at the point where the yangtze river and the jialing river merge. Eight new lines were merged to the plan, with some minor modifications. In the 21st century, japanesemade monorail system made an advance into global market and have evolved into successful system operations in chongqing in china, singapore, dubai in the united arab emirates, and daegu in republic of korea.
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