TRAM

Tram – one of the earliest forms of mass transport that MRails has given a new lease of life. Nations around the world are re-discovering their past tram network and are in a renewal process.

A tram or tram car is a rail borne vehicle, lighter than a conventional train and designed for ferrying passengers and occasionally freight within, close to or in between villages, towns and cities. Trams differ from other forms of rail based transport in that their tracks are partly or wholly laid on roads which they share to a greater or lesser extent with other road traffics. Tram enables virtually complete integration with other forms of transport and pedestrian making simultaneous use of the roads. The tram is expected to lead the transformation of mass rapid transport in Malaysia and the rest of the world with its passenger friendly features and more importantly the introduction of tram powered by natural gas. The tram is sending a strong environment statement as a NGV and cost can be kept low.

MONORAIL

Monorail is rubber guided and commonly used in elevated systems. Guidance is provided by a set of small horizontal rubber tyre wheels running along one or two vertical central guides; one on each side of a single narrow concrete beam. Its length can be varied by merging coaches to suit traffic requirements. Monorail is able to carry up to 40,000 (forty thousand) PPHPD during peak traffic.

MONORAIL STATION

The stations will be sleek, aesthetic, user friendly will all fundamental and modern amenities for quick and comfortable journey.

HISTORY OF MONORAIL

The first passenger carrying monorail celebrated a grand opening on June 25th, 1825. It had a one-horse power engine. Based on 1821 patent by Henry Robinson Palmer, the Cheshunt Railway was actually built to carry bricks, but made monorail history by carrying passengers at its opening
From then, till today many improvements have taken place like Suspended Monorail, Monorail with steel wheels running on wooden rafters and the present Hybrid Monorail runs with rubber tyres on concrete beams.

MEDIUM-LOW SPEED MAGLEV

Maglev, or magnetic levitation, is a transport which suspends guides and propels dominantly trains using magnetic levitation from a very large number of magnets for lift and propulsion. This method of locomotion is faster, quieter and smoother. Unlike conventional systems which require a 30 km/h minimum speed, Maglev is able to operate at any speed.

HISTORY OF MAGLEV

High speed transportation patents were granted to various inventors throughout the world. Early United States patents for a linear motor propelled train were awarded to the inventor, Alfred Zehden (German). The inventor was awarded U.S. Patent 782,312 (June 21, 1902) and U.S Patent RE 12,700 (August 21, 1907), another early electromagnetic system was developed by F.S. Smith. A series of German patents for magnetic levitation trains propelled by linear motors were awarded to Hermann Kemper 1937 and 1941. An early modern type of maglev train was described in U.S. Patents 3,158,765,

Magnetic system of transportation, by G.R. Polgreen (August 25, 1959).The first use of “Maglev” in a United States patents was in “Magnetic levitation guidance” by Canadian Patents and Development Limited. The world’s first commercial automated maglev system was a low speed maglev shuttle that ran from the airport terminal of Birmingham International Airport to the nearby Birmingham International railway station between 1984 to 1995.

Based on experimental work commissioned by the British government at the British Rail Research Division laboratory at Derby, the length of the track was 600 meters (1,969 ft), and train “flew” at an altitude of 15 millimetres (0.6 in). It was in operation for nearly eleven years, but obsolescence problems with the electronic system made it unreliable in its later years and it has now been replaced with a cable-drawn system. One of the original cars is now on display at Rail world in Peterborough, while the RTV31 hover train vehicle is preserved on the Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough