An efficient cost analysis of monorail in the Middle East using statistics of existing monorail and metro models
| Autor: | Olisanwendu Ogwuda, S. Rezaei, Amin Ghafooripour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | WIT Transactions on The Built Environment. |
| ISSN: | 1743-3509 1746-4498 |
| DOI: | 10.2495/ut120221 |
| Popis: | This paper discusses an efficient-cost analysis for the monorail system in developing countries focusing on Middle East cases. Most of the cities in the Middle East are using the metro system and have experience with it. A monorail system is quite new for these countries so the efficiency of the monorail as an important question is always figured out. A function to find payback duration for monorail is generated, using available data for countries which have both systems in the world. Then a correlation between metro and monorail ticket prices is studied to apply it for the countries in the Middle East. The theory has been verified for UAE, USA and China as existing models for both metro and monorail. Then it has been applied for interpreting and predicting the monorail system costs in Egypt and Iran as case studies in the Middle East. The results show that for those countries with a subsidies policy for public transportation, a monorail will not be an economic system for the public transportation, private sectors will not show their interests for long term investment in it and it might be used for the tourism and amusement purposes. |
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