Skyrail,
The best solution
SkyRail is an advanced monorail system designed to solve urban congestion
and transit challenges, without the significant infrastructure costs, construction timelines or traffic strains caused by grade separated rail projects.
INTRODUCTION
Surface light rail has been modernized and improved for over 100 years since the first trams and streetcars. In a highly analogous manner, straddle type monorail technology has been incrementally improved and modernized for more than 60 years.
BYD SKYRAIL TIMELINE
1952
Alweg, Germany
Monorail
Wenner-Gren’s first system design was geared more towards a high-speed city to city rail system.
1959
Disneyland, US
Monorail
No monorail in history captured the attention of the public quite like Walt Disney’s Alweg Monorail did when it opened in 1959.
1962
Seattle, US
Monorail
The first dual-guidebeam Alweg line opened for the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle.
1964
Haneda, Japan
Monorail
The first major system to incorporate the Alweg design and use switches for direction reversal still operating today.
2005
Chongqing, China
Monorail
Serving the transportation needs of the city’s main business and entertainment downtown areas and inner suburbs averaging 1 million people per day.
2014
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Monorail
Line 15 (Silver) is a line of the São Paulo Metro. It is South America’s first mass-transit monorail.
2015
Daegu, South Korea
Monorail
Daegu Metro Line 3 is the third line in the Daegu Metro rapid transit system in Daegu, South Korea.
2016
Shenzhen, China
BYD Headquarters
On October 13, the global debut of “SkyRail”, a monorail system developed out of BYD’s five-year R&D project.
2017
Yinchuan, China
SkyRail
A SkyRail line in the city’s Flower Expo Park in Yinchuan, was officially opened in September 2017.
2019
Jining, China
SkyRail
BYD’s first rapid monorail system, running at 120km/h started implementation.
2019
Guang’an, China
SkyRail
BYD’s first commercial municipal line is planned to start operating in July.
2019
Salvador, Brazil
SkyRail
BYD’s first cross-sea monorail project to connect Salvador’s central business district to São João Island, with a capacity of 150,000 passengers per day.
SERVICE
PROVEN TECHNOLOGY
BYD was selected for over 380 kilometers/237 miles of SkyRail projects in China, the Asia Pacific region, South America and Africa. These projects are already in planning, construction, or operation, and currently are being expanded with detailed planned stages in several cities in North America.
BYD SkyRail
Under Construction
Running
Length
2.73 mi / 4.4 km
China
Shenzhen BYD HQ
3.52 mi / 5.67 km
China
Yinchuan
6.15 mi / 9.9 km
China
Guang’an
6.21 mi / 10 km
China
Jining
12.4 mi / 20 km
Brazil
Salvador
China
Brazil
TYPICAL DIMENSIONS
“SkyRail carbodies are 10’5” / 3.16 m wide, about the same width as a subway car. However, the vehicles are lightweight, about 2/3rd the weight of a light rail vehicle, which means the structure needed to support SkyRail is substantially lighter as well. Our structural engineers estimate that SkyRail structure require only about half the steel and concrete as elevated rail structures.
Flexible Capacity
Train sets can be built from 2 to 8-car compositions, and autonomously coupled with other trains according to operational and capacity needs.
SkyRail has an adjustable
passenger capacity with
the ability to move
Nearly 18,800 passengers
per hour each way at
North American standing spacing.
