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Integrated Monorail Systems Extending Around the Globe |
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AUTHORS |
| Hirotaka Tateya |
Monorail Systems Integration Dept., Transportation Systems Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Hisatoshi Yamamoto |
Rolling Stock Systems Design Dept., Kasado Transportation Systems Product Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Tomomi Inoue |
Signaling Systems Design Dept., Mito Transportation Systems Product Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Takayuki Tamotsu |
Rolling Stock Electrical Systems Design Dept., Mito Transportation Systems Product Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. |
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OVERVIEW |
Hitachi, Ltd. is a leader in the development and supply of straddle type monorail systems providing medium-capacity urban transit. Hitachi has focused its efforts on system integration meeting a various range of needs and requirements from full turnkey projects involving civil engineering structures to the development of smaller monorail systems for smaller capacity systems. Sentosa Express that went into service in January 2007 is one of the systems to transport visitors to Sentosa Island, one of Singapore's most popular tourist attractions. The system is perfectly configurated for the smaller transport capacity required by using reduced size and lightweight monorail cars and employing a compact signaling system. Hitachi is also fully involved in the resort island Palm Jumeirah monorail project in the UAE that is now under construction, and major key systems including the driverless operating system were applied.
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KEYWORDS |
monorail, Sentosa, Palm Jumeirah, resort, communication based signaling system
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