Monorail station. Monorail: development history and features

Which Department of Transport and Communications, together with the State Enterprise "Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering" was instructed to continue work on the topic "Moscow Monorail Transport" and in the I quarter of 1999 to develop proposals for the creation of a priority section of the monorail.

Design

It was originally planned to build a line from the Yaroslavl highway to the Severyanin overpass, but later the project was changed. The final construction site for the future monorail transport system, which should connect the All-Russian Exhibition Center with nearby metro stations (Timiryazevskaya and Botanical Gardens), was determined on March 13, 2001 in the "Concept for holding the World Universal Exhibition EXPO-2010 in Moscow in 2010". On June 21, 2001, the executors of the pre-project studies of the MMTS were determined:

JSC "Moscow Monorail Roads" (main technical solutions of the first stage of the MMTS; electric rolling stock; address: Berezovaya alley, house 10).
LLC "Selton-M" (dispatch control system MMTS).
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Production Association of Automation" named after V.I. ak. N. A. Semikhatova, Yekaterinburg (control system for the movement of electric rolling stock).
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "OKB Vympel" (turnouts; parking devices; auxiliary equipment).
OAO MMZ Vympel (main parts of the running gear of the rolling stock).
OAO NPP KVANT (development and creation of a control system for traction motors).
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "NIIShP" (development and production of wheels of reinforced design R22.5 with an internal flange).
Moskomarchitectura, OAO Corporation "Transstroy", Institute "Mosinzhproekt", Institute "MosgortransNIIproekt", State Unitary Enterprise of the City of Moscow "Mosgortrans" (monorail route; building structures; power supply of MMTS).

In the urban development plan for the development of the territory of the North-Eastern Administrative District until 2020, one of the priority areas is the construction of a monorail transport system from the Botanichesky Sad metro station to the Timiryazevskaya metro station with a length of 8.6 km with 9 stations. On December 25, 2001, the MMTS construction project was divided into two phases. The section from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to the All-Russian Exhibition Center was accepted as the first stage. On May 22, from the Decree of the Government of Moscow, the preliminary dates for putting the line into operation became known - the II quarter of 2003. The same decree emphasizes the uniqueness of the facility and the lack of experience of Russian organizations in performing such work. On January 31, 2002, the location of the MMTS depot was determined on the territory of the tram depot named after. N. E. Bauman, the withdrawal of the exhibits of the Museum of Urban Passenger Transport located there since September 10, 1999 from the territory of the depot and the beginning of the construction of a new museum building in Strogino.

Construction

In the meantime, in March - June, the construction of the monorail line over the tram tracks on Akademika Korolev Street was completed. In June, work began on the construction of the first station - "Akademika Korolev Street". On October 15, tram traffic was restored along the line from VDNKh to the Ostankino terminal station. In December, supports were installed along the entire length of the route, running beams were laid almost everywhere. Construction sites of all stations became visible. In April 2003, the construction of the Timiryazevskaya station began, the laying of beams and the construction of the switch.

excursion mode

Due to the need to carry out complex tests of MMTS, the launch date of the line was postponed to the first half of 2006.

All stations were completely open for entry and exit of passengers on September 1 . On October 19, for two days, tests were carried out for the simultaneous operation of 6 trains on the line. According to MMTS employees, the tests revealed insufficient reliability of the rolling stock. In December, the operation of train No. 08 began and repeated tests of the simultaneous operation of 6 trains on the line were carried out. The dates for the launch of the MMTS into commercial operation are postponed to the first half of 2007 with the wording: "due to the long lead times for the manufacture of components and assemblies for a multifunctional technological vehicle for the Moscow monorail transport system" .

Litigation and press releases

Preparing to enter transport mode

On November 7, 2010, a fire broke out in the engine compartment of one of the monorail cars. No one was hurt, all passengers were evacuated. The traffic on the monorail was temporarily suspended.

Stations

Moscow monorail

conventions

TC "Rostokino"

Sergei Eisenstein Street

Exhibition Center

Academician Koroleva street

Telecentre

Petrovsko-Razumovskoye - Ostankino (OJD)

Milashenkova street

Timiryazevskaya

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	Route map

"Timiryazevskaya"

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 9.550 m.

Exit to Dmitrovskoe highway (150 m), Yablochkova and Fonvizina streets (100 m), to the Depo mall, Alex shopping center. It is located in close proximity to the Timiryazevskaya station of the Moscow metro and the Timiryazevskaya platform of the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow railway (50 m). Boarding bus No. 12, 126, 19, 23, 604 (stops on Yablochkov and Fonvizin streets); 87, 206 (stops at Dmitrovskoye shosse, 270 m); trolleybus No. 47, 56, 78 (stops at Dmitrovskoe shosse, 270 m).

Station code: 200.

"Milashenkov Street"

The island-type platform has an S-shape. Length: more than 50 m. Width: variable, expanding towards the center.

Exit to Milashenkova street, Ogorodny proezd, Fonvizina street, to the Matrix hypermarket. Boarding bus No. 12, 12K, 19, 23 (stop "Ogorodny pr.", 100 m); bus number 12, 12k, 23; trolleybus No. 3, 29, 29k (stop "Ul. Fonvizina", 75 m).

Station code: 201.

"Telecentre"

Academician Koroleva Street

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 14.950 m.

Opening hours and ticket prices

Front side of the ticket

Back side of the ticket

Monorail stations are open for passengers from 7:00 to 23:00 daily. The travel time between the final stations "Sergey Eisenstein Street" and "Timiryazevskaya" is 10-15 minutes.

The line operates from 2 to 6 trains. The first trains from the station "Ulitsa Sergei Eisenshtein" depart at 7:00 and 7:16, from the station "Timiryazevskaya" - at 7:00 and 7:20. The minimum train interval is 6 minutes 35 seconds. The last trains leave the end stations at 23:05.

Ticket price from January 1, 2011 for ONE trip is 28 rubles; TRAVEL TICKET for 1 month with a limit of no more than 70 trips - 1230 rubles; a travel ticket without limiting the number of trips for schoolchildren, vocational school students and students - 350 rubles. For children under 7 years old, as well as when passing through the SOCIAL CARD of a Muscovite or a resident of the Moscow Region, travel is free.

Moscow metro travel tickets on the monorail transport system are not valid.

Infrastructure

The stations were built according to individual projects, they have a two-level space-planning structure, with platforms of island (5 stations) and separate (1 station, "Akademika Korolev Street") types. All stations are equipped with stairways, escalators and an elevator for the disabled.

For parking and maintenance of rolling stock, an electric depot was created on the territory of the tram depot. N. E. Bauman. The total area of the electric depot is 2.05 ha. Building area - 12 710 m². The construction volume of the technological building is 74,290 m³. The length of technological tracks on the territory of the electric depot is 1,184 m. The estimated number of units of serviced EPS is 10. The number of tracks for maintenance and assembly of EPS is 2

The entire line can be controlled in a fully automatic mode by a computer from the control room located in the depot. Also at each station there is a station control room, from where you can control the composition while it is at the station. However, despite the long time of fine-tuning the system from the moment of launch, this mode of operation has not been worked out to the proper extent. Currently, monorail trains operate in a semi-automatic mode, in which the system controls the movement of the train under the control of the driver. There is also a manual mode, in which the driver independently controls the movement. The management of the compositions is carried out in one person.

The power supply of the MMTS route is provided by 7 traction step-down substations: 6 as part of the stations and 1 in the depot.

Track construction

The composition of the Moscow monorail on the turning ring near the station "Timiryazevskaya"

Service footpaths are arranged between the track beams. Trains of the Moscow monorail system on the way to Telecenter station.

Monorail tracks are two box-section steel beams laid on reinforced concrete supports at a height of 4-6 m. Service and evacuation footpaths are arranged between the track beams. The supports have a pile foundation made of bored piles with a diameter of 0.75 m and a monolithic body. 167 towers have been installed along the entire route. Grounding of current-carrying elements of monorail tracks is provided by the device of grounding taps, passing mainly inside the monolithic support elements.

The spans have a length of 20 to 53 m. The minimum radius of curves on the main tracks for the monorail project developed by JSC MMD is 25 m. The minimum radius of curves for the main line MMTS Timiryazevskaya - Ul. S. Eisenstein "- 100 m, at the approaches to the stations - 50 m. In curves, the cross section of the beam remains horizontal, so the speed in them is limited due to uncompensated lateral acceleration. At the end stations there are turning circles with a radius of 20 m.

The largest slope of the running beam for the monorail project developed by MMD JSC is 7%. The largest longitudinal slope of the running beam for the main line MMTS Timiryazevskaya - Ul. S. Eisenstein" - 2.98%; within the zones of stations - 0.3%; for technological ways - 7.0%.

The smallest radii of the vertical curves of the undercarriage: convex - 1,110 m, concave - 2,458 m.

Expansion joints specially designed for monorail tracks are provided to compensate for temperature movements of the undercarriage.

On the Moscow monorail, reverse-type switches are used: the flow profiles on them are rigidly fixed; above - the profile of the passage in one direction, below - in the other. The arrow wraps around itself in a horizontal plane, "substituting" for the train the profile along which it must pass. The transfer of the arrow is carried out in no more than 20 s. There are 3 turnouts on the line: 2 in the area of the depot and 1 in the area of the Timiryazevskaya station.

The distance between the centers of the platforms of the end stations is 4,698 m in double-track terms, the turn around the Timiryazevskaya station (from the center to the center of the platform) is 240 m in single-track terms, the turn at Ul. S. Eisenstein "(from the center to the center of the platform) - 609 m in single-track terms. Stretch along the axis of the running beam (in single-track terms along the ring, including dead ends) - 10,317 m.

The tracks are equipped with an impulse system "Snegosbros".

rolling stock

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	Wagon suspension device

Monorail train at the station "Timiryazevskaya" MMTS

Moscow monorail. View from the first carriage

Entrance to the driver's cab, view from the front carriage

A P30 series train from the Swiss company Intamin Transportation Ltd was purchased as a prototype model of the rolling stock of two head cars. The TEMP Engineering Center has developed an asynchronous linear motor, which allows increasing the efficiency and solving the problems of train slippage when the running beam is iced. At the moment, the Moscow monorail is the only monorail in the world with a linear motor (except for maglev systems).

he walks on a single rail, called a running beam. The beam has a special profile, such that the train does not just stand on top of it, but “sits” tightly, clasping it with its structure from all sides. This is one of the indisputable advantages of the monorail - it cannot derail in any accident (excluding, of course, the physical destruction of the rail itself). For such a path, overpasses of complex design are not needed, the path is a running beam raised on supports. Such a wide rail area makes it possible to use not metal wheels, but rubberized rollers as a mover. In this, the monorail is similar to road transport. Thus, the noise emitted by the train during movement is reduced to almost zero.

In total, there are 6 cars, the number of seats for sitting: 44 (6 each in the head cars and 8 in the intermediate cars). The capacity of the train is 200 people at a rate of 5 people / m² or 290 people at a rate of 8 people / m².

The length, width and height of the train are 34.5, 2.3 and 3.3 m, respectively. The width of the doorway is 1.2 m.

There is an air conditioning and heating system in the driver's cab and train salons.

The maximum speed of the train is 60 km / h (16.7 m / s), however, it must be reduced to 28 km / h on a curve with a radius of 100 m and to 20 km / h on a curve with a radius of 50 m. The nominal acceleration during acceleration and deceleration is 0 ,8-1 m / s², depending on the load of the composition. Acceleration during emergency braking - no more than 3 m / s².

The length of the braking distance at a speed of 43.2 km / h (12 m / s) on a straight dry section of the track during service braking - no more than 80 m, with emergency braking - no more than 36 m.

The maximum noise level in the car cabin at a speed of 40 km/h (excluding air conditioning and heating systems) is 65 dB. The noise level at a distance of 25 m when the train is moving at a speed of 40 km/h is 65 dBA. Radio, TV interference and electromagnetic radiation at a distance of 25 m are absent.

Traction drive: based on asynchronous linear motors with inductors on the undercarriages and a secondary element on the undercarriage. The thrust of one engine is 750 kgf.

The voltage supplied to the composition is constant, 600 V ± 10%. Type of current collection - lower, two trolleys and a ground bus.

Fire protection - fire condition monitoring system, automatic fire extinguishing devices, fire extinguishers in cars.

Ambient temperature range during operation - from -40 to +40 °C.

Currently, there are 8 passenger trains and one multifunctional vehicle (a special train consisting of two head cars) in the depot. All compositions are in operation. At the same time, up to 6 trains operate on the line, 1 train must be in scheduled repair and one in reserve. If necessary (for example, with a sharp increase in passenger traffic), the reserve train can also be put on the line, and the total number of simultaneously operating trains can reach 7.

The maximum passenger flow in the current mode of operation (7 trains) is up to 2024 passengers per hour. in each direction at a rate of 5 people / m² or 2935 pass. / h. at a rate of 8 people / m².

Security

The Moscow monorail train departs from the Vystavochny Tsentr station

Three methods have been developed for evacuating passengers from a faulty train, depending on the situation:

if the train is out of order, but can continue to move, then a second train is sent from the neighboring station along the same track, which takes the emergency train in tow and delivers it to the nearest station where passengers get off;
if the train is out of order and cannot continue moving, then a train with walkways (ladders) loaded into it at the station is sent along the opposite track, it is adjusted exactly opposite the emergency one, passengers use these ladders to transfer to a serviceable train and go to the nearest station;
if the line is completely inoperative (for example, during a power outage), then the doors of the train are opened manually, and passengers go down to the viewing paths between the tracks on special stairs in each car and reach the nearest station on foot.

The safety of passengers at the stations is ensured by the presence of two exits: the main one (with escalators) and the emergency one (with fire escapes) - from the opposite end of the platform. The station "Ulitsa Akademika Koroleva", which has side platforms, is additionally equipped with a special emergency ladder for moving from one platform to another. In addition, at the stations (in the lobbies and on the platforms) there are employees of the police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro.

Criticism

Monorail competition with tram route 17 near VDNKh station

The results of the creation and start of operation of the first line of the MMTS led to the compromise of the ideas of the urban monorail as such. The result of the implementation of the system Intamin Transportation Ltd. gives grounds to assume that the choice of the system was made according to two criteria: the minimum cost of the structure declared by the developer and the spectacular appearance. The recommendation of the Academy of Public Utilities, developed back in the 60s of the XX century, was ignored: mounted monorails with traction due to pneumatic wheels are recommended only for the southern regions of the USSR. As a transport system, Intamin Transportation Ltd. is not an optimal solution: the width of the car interior is narrowed to 2.3 meters, which is justified only when laying the line in narrow streets.

The capacity of the monorail train - 200 people at a rate of 5 people / m² or 290 people at a rate of 8 people / m² - is criticized as frivolously small for a transport system that is proposed as an alternative to "light metro". For example, journalist Elena Komarova wrote in 2006 that:

After the transition from the “excursion” mode to the working one, there should be four times more trains on the track, they will run from six in the morning to one in the morning with an interval of five minutes and serve up to 3.5 thousand passengers per hour ... - (For comparison: a tram the line is designed for a flow of 15-20 thousand people per hour, the light metro can carry up to 22 thousand, the usual underground - up to 80 thousand.) ... So far, the presence of this type of transport does not increase either the cost of housing in the area or the capitalization of the city itself. While he only eats off budget money. Bored toy.

However, this does not take into account the fact that even with such a line load, the maximum passenger flow of the line in both directions is about 50 thousand people per day (if we take as a standard the existing practice in the Moscow metro of breaking down passenger traffic by hours of the day and days of the week), which is approximately corresponds to the passenger traffic of the Butovskaya light metro line. If we take into account the fact that the existing capacity of the train is limited by the number of rolling stock at the disposal of the MMTS and the dimensions of the depot built for the first section of the depot system, then such statistics do not correspond to the potential of the system by at least 8 times, because (according to the data on the system website) trains can be made up of 10 cars, and on metro lines the frequency of trains reaches 42-44 trains per hour, which for MMTS corresponds to a passenger traffic of 38 thousand people. per hour in both directions (or 23 thousand people/hour with the existing six-car layout). That is, the potential of the system fully complies with the “light metro” standard and can be compared with the passenger traffic of the Filyovskaya metro line. Of course, at present there are no plans to purchase additional rolling stock, much less to reconstruct the newly built depot (which has a turntable for six cars), as the line is used at 20% of the existing potential. Apparently, this situation suits the creators of the system, who have chosen a route of low demand for "running in" the system created almost from scratch.

Supporters of the project argue that ground public transport is not able to cope with the growth in passenger traffic due to the busy city highways now, and in the future the situation will only worsen. The underground metro is too expensive, and the construction of flyover lines in populated areas is impractical due to the cumbersome design of flyovers. In St. Petersburg, where back in 2002 the length of tram lines reached 690 km, the construction of tram overpasses (the so-called elevated express) is proposed as an alternative to the monorail, however, work on the project is currently going sluggishly, and one of the reasons is considered to be competition of the projected overpass line with existing tram routes. And in terms of bulkiness, the tram overpass is slightly inferior to the railway one.

The MMTS website lists the advantages of this transport system:

the monorail transport system (MTS) has optimal conditions and applications in terms of maximum return.

These areas include: - Transportation of passengers in areas with established urban infrastructure. - Unloading highways through the use of off-street transport systems for passenger transportation. - Improving the mobility of the city's transport system by connecting large transport hubs with monorail routes, as well as by laying routes passing through parks, inconveniences, floodplains and river beds. - Use of MTS as outbound transport routes. - Use of MTS as excursion transport and for recreational purposes in places of rest.

Route selection

Before the construction of the monorail, there was no direct connection between the Timiryazevskaya metro station and the television center and the All-Russian Exhibition Center, but instead of building a new monorail line, such a connection could be provided by extending the tram line from Koroleva Street (respectively, with the construction of an overpass or tunnel through the Oktyabrskaya railway).

In addition to organizing a direct connection, one of the reasons for the construction of the line was the preparation for the World Universal Exhibition "EXPO-2010". The plans for the exhibition noted the need to use monorail transport to organize the access to the All-Russian Exhibition Center from the Timiryazevskaya and Botanichesky Sad stations, since during the exhibition, the capacity of the VDNKh station in the morning and evening hours would be enough only in the exit or entrance. However, when the monorail was already under construction, the right to host the exhibition went to Shanghai, and the construction of the line was divided into two start-up complexes, the first of which includes a built and open section from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to the electric depot on Sergei Eisenstein Street.

The route layout is confusing. The construction of the monorail system, as it was stated, initially pursued excursion tasks. However, the excursion value of the areas along which the route is laid is negligible. The train goes either over uncleaned garage complexes or food markets of the Central Asian type, or along the wide, but completely uninteresting streets of Akademika Korolev and Fonvizin, which are sleeping areas from a tourist point of view.

Financial side of the project

System creation costs

According to official figures, the construction of the monorail cost the city 6,335,510,000 rubles. (in 2005 prices), that is, 221.3 million dollars (at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of July 1, 2005), which is approximately equal to the cost of building one deep underground station. Dividing the indicated amount by the length of the route (5158.5 m in double-track terms, taking into account service tracks), we can conclude that a kilometer of the Moscow monorail cost $ 42.9 million, which is even more than the cost of building the Butovskaya light metro line. However, the total cost of the Moscow monorail project included not only the cost of designing and building the line itself, but also the costs of:

purchase of a trial train of two cars from Intamin;
construction of a test site at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering;
licensing of technology and design of the rolling stock and track structure of the Intamin company;
development and manufacture of rolling stock (including the development and implementation of the LIM and the rolling stock management information system);
development of an information system for automatic control of the line;
depot construction.

I do not accept these accusations, ”Igor Krasnov, general director of the Moscow Monorail Road OJSC, told the RG correspondent. - A kilometer of the metro line costs 190 million euros, and a monorail route - from 17 to 35 million euros. High-speed tram, the construction of which is in the plans of the city government for 2011, and that one will cost 20 percent more.

unprofitability

According to the data for 2009, the line is unprofitable: subsidies from the city budget for the operation of the monorail for 2009 amount to 908,849.4 thousand rubles. At the same time, the subsidies of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" for 2009 amount to 15,293,142.4 thousand rubles, and the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans" - 18,369,461.5 thousand rubles.

Related issues

In addition to financial claims, dissatisfaction was caused by the closure of the Museum of Passenger Transport in Moscow on the territory of the tram depot. Bauman, where the monorail depot is now located. The exhibits have been moved to the territory of the Tram Repair Plant and are not available to the public. Individual citizens criticize the Moscow monorail for changing the appearance of Akademika Korolev Street - in their opinion, the monorail route does not fit into its architectural appearance and serves as a visual barrier between the two sides of the street.

prospects

Moscow monorail, Timiryazevskaya station

Previously, a number of other proposals for the creation of new monorail lines were put forward:

In addition, there was a project to create on the basis of a monorail system a vehicle for urban and outbound highways with increased speed.

Notes

The monorail line in Moscow will not be closed. - News of the day - RosBusinessConsulting
Decree of the Prime Minister of the Government of Moscow No. 777-RP "On the financing of design work on monorail transport"
Order No. 996-RP "On the design and construction of new types of high-speed transport in Moscow"
Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 108-PP "On the establishment of an open joint-stock company" Moscow monorails ""
Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 738-RP "On the establishment of a permanent commission for the operational management of practical work on the priority monorail route in the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow"
Order of the Government of Moscow No. 794-RP "On the work on the creation of the Moscow Monorail Transport"
Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 49-PP "On approval of the Norms and rules for designing the layout and development of Moscow MGSN 1.01-99"
Decree of the Prime Minister of the Government of Moscow No. 920-RP dated September 15, 2000 "On the preparation of materials on the issue of holding the World Universal Exhibition EXPO in Moscow in 2010"
Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 241-PP dated March 13, 2001 "On the Concept of holding the World Universal Exhibition EXPO-2010 in Moscow in 2010"
Order of the Government of Moscow No. 553-RP "On the design preparation for the construction of the priority section of the Moscow Monorail Transport System"
Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 883-PP "On the urban development plan for the development of the territory of the North-Eastern Administrative District until 2020"

Milashenkova street +M

Timiryazevskaya + M + railway

Moscow monorail transport system(MMTS) is a monorail system in Moscow, in the North-Eastern Administrative District, running from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to Sergei Eisenstein Street. The route starts at the Timiryazevskaya metro station, passes along Fonvizina Street, crosses the Oktyabrskaya Railway line, goes past the Television Center along Akademika Koroleva Street, exits to the Main, and then to the North Entrance of the All-Russian Exhibition Center.

The operating organization of the monorail transport system is the state unitary enterprise "Moscow Metro".

History of the project

Project preparation and design

The official history of this project begins on July 17, 1998, when the state enterprise "Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering" (MIT), together with the Department of Transport and Communications and the Moscow Architecture Committee (NIiPI of the General Plan of Moscow), was instructed to develop a draft program for the "Moscow Monorail Transport" (deadline - September 1998) and a preliminary feasibility study for the creation of monorail routes in Moscow (deadline - December 1998).

On February 16, 1999, a resolution was signed on the establishment of Moscow Monorail Roads OJSC. By the 1st quarter of 2000, an experimental test monorail complex (test track) was built on the basis of MIT, and a set of Intamin Transportation was purchased.

It was originally planned to build a line from the Yaroslavl highway to the Severyanin overpass, but later the project was changed. The final construction site for the future monorail transport system, which should connect the All-Russian Exhibition Center with nearby metro stations (Timiryazevskaya and Botanical Gardens), was determined on March 13, 2001 in the "Concept for holding the World Universal Exhibition EXPO-2010 in Moscow in 2010". The location of the MMTS depot was determined on the territory of the tram depot. N. E. Bauman.

Construction

In August 2001, the first work began on Fonvizina Street. On September 22, a trial frame was installed under the first support. On February 2, 2002, the movement of trams from the South entrance of the All-Russian Exhibition Center to Ostankino was closed, for which a temporary single-track turning circle for trams 11 and 17 was built on the site of the parking lot. At this time, the rolling stock is being finalized, since the previously purchased Intamin trial train showed unsatisfactory results of testing work in the winter. The track itself is officially referred to as experimental. On October 15, tram traffic was restored along the line from VDNKh to the Ostankino terminal station.

On November 11, the terminus of the MMTS Expocentre received a new name - Sergei Eisenstein Street. In November 2003, most of the stations are at the stage of completion, running beams are laid everywhere, in December, the running of the first copy of the rolling stock began. During testing, an accident occurred on February 21: the car tore off about 15 meters of a contact rail in the vicinity of Ul. academician Korolev. Another postponement of commissioning dates was announced. In May, three trains are being tested on the line, the opening of the road is once again postponed without a public explanation of the reasons.

excursion mode

Exit to Dmitrovskoe highway (150 m), Yablochkova and Fonvizina streets (100 m), to the Depo mall, Alex shopping center.

"Timiryazevskaya" of the Moscow Metro and the platform "Timiryazevskaya" of the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow Railway (50 m).

Boarding bus No. 12, 19, 23, 126, 604 (stops on Yablochkov and Fonvizin streets); 87, 206, 604 (stops at Dmitrovskoye shosse, 270 m); trolleybus No. 47, 56, 78 (stops at Dmitrovskoe shosse, 270 m).

Station code: 200.

Milashenkova street

The island-type platform has an S-shape. Length: more than 50 m. Width: variable, expanding towards the center.

Exit to Milashenkova street, Ogorodny proezd, Fonvizina street, to the Matrix hypermarket.

Located in close proximity to the Fonvizinskaya station of the Moscow Metro

Boarding bus No. 12, 19, 23, 126 (stop Ogorodny pr., 100 m); bus number 12, 23, 126; trolleybus No. 3, 3K, 29, 29k (stop Fonvizina St., 75 m).

Station code: 201.

Telecentre

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 14.950 m.

Exit to Academician Korolev Street, to the Ostankino television center, the Ostankino television tower.

Boarding the bus number 24, 85; trolleybus No. 9, 36, 37, 73.

Station code: 202.

Academician Koroleva street

Separate platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 2×4.800 m.

Exit to Akademika Koroleva street, to the TV3 channel building, Megasfera shopping center (200 m).

Boarding trolleybus No. 9, 13, 15, 36, 37, 69, 73 (200 m); tram number 11, 17.

Station code: 203.

Exhibition Center

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 12.600 m.

Exit to 1st Transverse passage, Longitudinal passage, to the All-Russian Exhibition Center (main entrance), the monument to the Conquerors of Space and the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics.

Boarding the bus number 76, 154, 239, 803; 33, 154, 239, 244, 834 (stop at Longitudinal passage, 300 m); 56, 93, 136, 172, 195, 834 (stop at 1st Crossroads, 250 m); 33, 56, 93, 136, 195, 244, 834 (stop at 2nd Crossroads, 35 m); 286 (stop at Mira Avenue, 370 m); suburban buses; trolleybus No. 13, 15, 36, 69, 73 (stop at Prodolny proezd, 280 m); 14, 48, 76 (stop at Mira Avenue, 370 m); tram number 11, 17.

Station code: 204.

Sergei Eisenstein Street

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 9.100 m.

Exit to Sergei Eisenstein Street, 1st Selskokhozyaystvenny proezd, to the All-Russian Exhibition Center (northern entrance, pavilion No. 70 "Moskva", 69 "Interbranch", 75).

Boarding bus number 154; trolleybus number 48.

Station code: 199.

Station codes are consecutively numbered with stations of the Moscow Metro.

Opening hours and ticket prices

Monorail stations are open for passengers from 8:00 to 20:00 daily. Travel time from the station "Ulitsa Sergei Eisenstein" to the station "Timiryazevskaya" - 16 minutes 14 seconds, in the opposite direction - 16 minutes 40 seconds.

On the line works from 1-2 trains. Intervals during the day are 22 minutes during peak hours (two trains running) and 45 minutes at other times (one train running).

From January 1, 2013, all types of tickets for the Moscow Metro began to operate on the Moscow Monorail. At the same time, a free transfer between the metro and the monorail has been introduced: when making the transition between the stations VDNH - Exhibition Center and Timiryazevskaya - Timiryazevskaya in any direction, an additional trip will not be deducted from the ticket if the passage through the second turnstile occurred no later than 90 minutes pass through the first. New tickets began to be sold at the box office at metro and monorail stations.

Commemorative ticket for the opening of MMTS

Reverse side of the commemorative ticket

The first version of the full ticket

First discount ticket

Ticket with overprint "MTS"

Ticket on sale until the end of 2009

Experimental ticket "Ultralight"

The reverse side of the ticket "Ultralight"

Infrastructure

The stations were built according to individual projects, they have a two-level space-planning structure, with platforms of island (5 stations) and separate (1 station, Akademika Korolev St.) types. All stations are equipped with stairways, escalators and an elevator for the disabled. At the same time, due to the fact that the entrance to the elevator cabin on the street is located on the opposite side of the station lobby and the passenger, using the elevator, does not pass through the turnstiles, their use is limited only to wheelchair users who have the right to free travel.

The roofs of the stations are equipped with the Snegosbros impulse system.

Communication between the trains and the control room is carried out by means of IP-telephony over a Wi-Fi network. There is also a backup conventional radio.

The power supply of the MMTS route is provided by 7 traction step-down substations: 6 as part of the stations and 1 in the depot.

The equipment of the monorail must comply with the technical requirements of the subway.

External images
	Scheme of track development

Track construction

Monorail tracks are two box-section steel beams laid on reinforced concrete supports at a height of 4-6 m. Service footpaths are arranged between the track beams. The supports have a pile foundation made of bored piles with a diameter of 0.75 m and a monolithic body. 167 supports were installed along the entire route. Grounding of current-carrying elements of monorail tracks is provided by the device of grounding taps, passing mainly inside the monolithic support elements.

The spans have a length of 20 to 53 m. The minimum radius of curves on the main tracks for the monorail project developed by JSC MMD is 25 m. The minimum radius of curves for the main line MMTS Timiryazevskaya - Ul. S. Eisenstein" - 100 m, at approaches to stations - 50 m. In curves, the transverse profile of the beam remains horizontal, so the speed in them is limited due to uncompensated transverse acceleration. At the end stations there are turning circles with a radius of 20 m.

The smallest radii of the vertical curves of the running beam: convex - 1,110 m, concave - 2,458 m.

Expansion joints specially designed for monorail tracks are provided to compensate for temperature movements of the running beam.

rolling stock

As a prototype model of the rolling stock of two head cars, a train of the P30 series from the Swiss company Intamin Transportation was purchased. The TEMP Engineering Center has developed an asynchronous linear motor, which allows increasing the efficiency and solving the problems of train slippage when the running beam is iced. At the moment, the Moscow monorail is the only monorail in the world with a linear motor (except for maglev systems).

The length, width and height of the train are 34.5, 2.3 and 3.3 m, respectively. The width of the doorway is 1.2 m.

There is an air conditioning and heating system in the driver's cab and train salons.

The length of the braking distance at a speed of 43.2 km / h (12 m / s) on a straight dry section of the track during service braking - no more than 80 m, with emergency braking - no more than 36 m.

Traction drive: based on asynchronous linear motors with inductors on the undercarriages and a secondary element on the undercarriage. The thrust of one engine is 750 kgf.

The voltage supplied to the composition is constant, 600 V ± 10%. Current collection type - lower, two trolleys and a ground bus.

Fire protection - fire condition control system, automatic fire extinguishing devices, fire extinguishers in cars.

Ambient temperature range during operation - from -40 to +40 °C.

The depot has 8 passenger trains (numbered from 01 to 08) and one multifunctional vehicle (a special train consisting of two head cars, without a number). All compositions are in operation. In normal mode, up to 6 trains operate simultaneously on the line, 1 train must be in scheduled repair and one in reserve. If necessary (for example, with a sharp increase in passenger traffic), the reserve train is also brought to the line, so the total number of simultaneously operating trains can reach 7.

Currently, the depot is assembling the ninth train.

carrying capacity

At the moment, the carrying capacity per hour in each direction is:

2 compositions: 576 pass. at a rate of 5 people / m² or 835 pass. at a rate of 8 people / m²;

It should be noted that these carrying capacity indicators refer only to a specific MMTS line on which six-car trains operate. The maximum composition of the monorail of the MMD system is 10 cars.

Passenger traffic

Security

The safety of passengers in the trains is ensured by the fire condition control system, automatic fire extinguishing devices, fire extinguishers in the cars.

Three methods have been developed for evacuating passengers from a faulty train, depending on the situation:

if the train is out of order, but can continue to move, then a second train is sent from the neighboring station along the same track, which takes the emergency train in tow and delivers it to the nearest station where passengers get off;
if the train is out of order and cannot continue moving, then a train with walkways (ladders) loaded into it at the station is sent along the opposite track, it is adjusted exactly opposite the emergency one, passengers use these ladders to transfer to a serviceable train and go to the nearest station;
if the line is completely inoperative (for example, during a power outage), then the doors of the train are opened manually, and passengers go down to the viewing paths between the tracks on special stairs in each car and reach the nearest station on foot.

The safety of passengers at the stations is ensured by the presence of two exits: the main one (with escalators) and the emergency one (with fire escapes) - from the opposite end of the platform. The station "Ulitsa Akademika Koroleva", which has side platforms, is additionally equipped with a special emergency ladder for moving from one platform to another. In addition, non-departmental security officers work at the stations (in the lobbies and on the platforms).

Criticism

Route selection

In addition to organizing a direct connection, one of the reasons for the construction of the line was the preparation for the World Universal Exhibition "EXPO-2010". The plans for the exhibition noted the need to use monorail transport to organize the entrance to the All-Russian Exhibition Center from the Timiryazevskaya and Botanichesky Sad stations, since during the exhibition, the capacity of the VDNKh station in the morning and evening hours would be enough only in the exit or entrance mode. However, when the monorail was already under construction, the right to host the exhibition went to Shanghai, and the construction of the line was divided into two start-up complexes, the first of which includes the completed and open section from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to the electric depot on Sergei Eisenstein Street.

Financial side of the project

System creation costs

According to official figures, the construction of the monorail cost the city 6,335,510,000 rubles. (in 2005 prices), that is, 221.3 million dollars (at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of July 1, 2005). Dividing the indicated amount by the length of the route (5158.5 m in double-track terms, taking into account service tracks), we can make an erroneous conclusion that a kilometer of the Moscow monorail cost $ 42.9 million, which is even more than the cost of building the Butovskaya light metro line. However, in fact, the total cost of the Moscow monorail project included not only the cost of designing and building the line itself, but also the costs of:

purchase of a trial train of two cars from Intamin;
construction of a test site at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering;
licensing of technology and design of the rolling stock and track structure of the Intamin company;
development and manufacture of rolling stock (including the development and implementation of the LIM and the rolling stock management information system);
development of an information system for automatic control of the line;
construction of a depot designed for both stages of the line (Timiryazevskaya - Botanical Garden).

The cost of the direct construction of the monorail line of this system was not published.

The information that it was possible to build a new metro station or even a whole line with the money spent on the creation of monorail transport is not confirmed. In addition, the creation of the Moscow monorail transport system was not financed from the metro construction budget in the city of Moscow: this money was not withdrawn from the metro construction budget and, in case of refusal to build a monorail, could not be used for the construction of the metro.

The Moscow transport monorail system is briefly called the monorail by Muscovites and, by all accounts, everyone who sees the famous sights of Moscow should visit it. If a tourist wants to see the Ostankino tower, then it is very convenient to get to it on the monorail.

It is enough to allocate an hour to take a ride on the monorail with a camera and take pictures of the TV tower from various stations; Timiryazevskaya, Telecentre, Milashenkova Street. The cost of the trip is comparable to a trip in the underground metro of the capital, you can get off on any platform, ride the escalator, enjoying the surrounding views of the capital.

Many residents of the capital are prejudiced against the monorail, saying that it cost Moscow dearly, passes through not the most beautiful places and there is practically nothing to see from it. But not everyone thinks so, for many, the monorail is a modern sightseeing facility, which is located next to VDNKh. The monorail appeared due to the fact that the country planned to hold the World Universal Exhibition in 2001.

For a number of reasons, the exhibition did not take place, but the monorail remained, which at first worked in a tour mode. Now the monorail has firmly entered the transport system of Moscow and, moreover, has become a tourist attraction.

Initially, only two trains ran along the cable car with an interval of half an hour, and the monorail's work schedule was from 10 am to 4 pm, a full ticket then cost 50 rubles, a teenage ticket 25 rubles. Now the work schedule has been extended, and the cost of a ticket is equal to the cost of a subway ride.

The end station of the monorail at the All-Russian Exhibition Center is st. Sergei Eisenstein, from the platform overlooking the Ferris wheel, the Moscow pavilion and the sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

From the stop "Exhibition Center" a panorama of the hotel "Cosmos", the Museum of Cosmonautics, the Alley of Cosmonauts and the monument to the Conquerors of Space opens.

From the station "Ulitsa Akademika Korolev" you can see the house of the designer of Soviet spacecraft, but taking pictures from the platform is inconvenient, since this station is completely closed and does not have an open platform.

The stop "Telecentre" allows you to fully view the Ostankino tower and the building of the television center. Also from this platform you can see the Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity. This temple belongs to the Ostankino estate.

The next stations "St. Milashenkov” and “Timiryazevskaya” are of little use for exploring the surroundings, since from them you can only see the Ostankino TV tower.

A sightseeing trip on the Moscow monorail does not take much time, it is not tiring and will undoubtedly bring pleasure to guests of Moscow.

The Moscow monorail transport system is a monorail system in Moscow, in the North-Eastern Administrative District, running from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to Sergey Eizenshtein Street. The route starts at the Timiryazevskaya metro station. In 2017, the Moscow Monorail switched to an excursion schedule due to a decrease in passenger traffic.

There is a turning circle for trains near the Timiryazevskaya station

There are 6 stations on the line

Let's start our acquaintance with the Moscow monorail transport system from the Timiryazevskaya station

A ride on the Moscow monorail costs 50 rubles, like any other public transport in Moscow

There are three escalators leading to the station. Entrance / exit at the station one

The Moscow monorail transport system (MMTS) began to operate in the excursion mode daily from 8.00 to 20.00. Trains will run at intervals of 30 minutes. The excursion mode does not mean at all that you need to sign up for a guide :) :) you can still get on the train with a regular ticket for public transport.

Island platform. Length: 40.150 m. Width: 9.550 m.
Exit to Dmitrovskoe highway (150 m), Yablochkova and Fonvizina streets (100 m), to the Depo mall, Alex shopping center.
Located in close proximity to the Timiryazevskaya station of the Moscow Metro and the Timiryazevskaya platform of the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow Railway

MMTS accepted its first passengers in 2004 and at first worked in a tour mode, with a half-hour interval and an operating mode from 10.00 to 16.00. By 2008, the busiest hours had been reduced to seven minutes, and opening hours had increased to 7:00–23:00. In addition, the line received the official number 13, under which the monorail was indicated on the metro map.

At one time, the monorail became a real lifesaver for many people living or working in the area.

But the operation of the monorail itself is very, very expensive for the Moscow government.

Total of 6 wagons

The cars are so cramped that during peak hours you feel like a herring in a barrel

Number of seats: 44 (6 in the head cars and 8 in the intermediate cars)

Now, if the train was completely with a through passage, then more passengers were transported and they were more comfortable

The maximum speed of the train is 60 km/h, but it must be reduced to 28 km/h on a curve with a radius of 100 m and to 20 km/h on a curve with a radius of 50 m.

Next station Milashenkova street

The island-type platform has an S-shape. Length: 75 m. Width: 15.6 m.

Exit to Milashenkova street, Ogorodny proezd, Fonvizina street, to the Matrix hypermarket.

The station has two escalators

The station has the longest platform on MMTS

This is what the platform looks like from the street

The city authorities are converting the Moscow monorail connecting VDNKh and Timiryazevskaya metro stations into tram lines. The trams will run on the ground, then climb the bridge for the former monorail (above railways and roads) and descend to the ground again

Passing over Botanical street

We pass the television technical center "Ostankino"

and arrive at the Telecenter station

Near each entrance to any monorail station there is a train schedule

The color scheme of all stations of the Moscow monorail is the same

There is also a fork in front of each station.

Telecentre station has three escalators

Station lobby with ticket offices and turnstiles

Potted flowers decorate the station lobby

The station opens at 7:50 a.m. and closes for passengers at 8:00 p.m.

Telecentre station has the widest platform at MMTS.

The platform offers a beautiful view of the Ostankino pond

and to the Ostankino television center

From the Telecenter station, the train passes over the Ostankino pond. While the train is traveling, you can clearly see the Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Ostankino, as well as the Ostankino Palace Theater

Next station Akademika Koroleva Street

Exit to Academician Koroleva street. Boarding buses No. T9, T15, 311, 379; trolleybuses No. 13, 36, 37, 73; trams number 11, 17, 25.

Separate type platform

Station lobby, where ticket offices and turnstiles are located

Flights of stairs and 2 strings of double escalators lead to the lobby.

One escalator smoothly transitions to the next

The station is located at a height of 12 meters, so they made two escalators (one turning into another)

Entrance / exit to the station Akademika Koroleva Street

Above the platforms there is another floor, on which there is a distribution lobby

There is a tram line under the station.

Let's go to the next station

Next station Exhibition center

Entrance / exit to the station

The station has three escalators.

Climbing up the escalator, you can see the sculptural composition "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" against the backdrop of the multifunctional residential complex "Tricolor"

The station is located halfway between the metro station "VDNH" of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line (280 meters to the metro station) and the main entrance of VDNKh

The station offers a beautiful view of the obelisk "To the Conquerors of Space" and the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

You can clearly see the hotel "Cosmos"

Let's go to the next station

Very soon the monorail will be replaced by trams

And now we come to the end station of the monorail line

Station Street Sergei Eisenstein

Entrance / exit to the station

Lobby with ticket offices and turnstiles

The station has three escalators.

Exit to Sergey Eisenstein street, 1st Agricultural passage. Exit to pavilions 69 and 70 (main exhibition halls) of VDNKh (northern entrance).

Platform length: 40 m, platform width: 16.50

From the station you can clearly see the Museum and Exhibition Center with the sculptural composition "Worker and Collective Farm Woman"

Pavilion No. 70

Behind the station there is a turning circle and an arrow to the depot.

Here the train turns around and goes again along the route

Transport and reception area and the building of the monorail depot

On the territory of the monorail depot there is a model train

Having turned around in the depot, the train again goes on the route

Since there will be no monorail soon, have time to ride

The Moscow monorail from a line with six stations was opened in 2004 in the North-Eastern Administrative District, 6.3 billion rubles were spent on its construction (in 2005 prices).
The monorail was first discussed in 2015. Passenger traffic on the line has fallen by a third since 2016 due to the construction of new metro stations. Since 2017, the monorail has been operating in tourist mode - trains run every half an hour.

Monorails were proposed almost 180 years ago. First Russian

a horse-drawn monorail was built near the village of Myachkovo in 1820.

mainly for timber transportation. A working electric model of a similar road

built in St. Petersburg by engineer I.V. Romanov in 1897

A modern monorail is a reinforced concrete or metal beam

(rail) raised to the overpass, and rolling stock (cars) on bogies with

pneumatic tyres. There are hinged roads, where the cars have a lower

fulcrum and, as it were, sit astride a carrier beam, and suspension systems, where

the wagons are suspended from bogies resting on a beam. Each of the named

types of roads has its advantages and disadvantages. Hinged road requires

a more complex system of running gear to ensure the stability of the wagons.

In addition, in adverse weather conditions, the monorail (beam) is covered

ice or snow and practically disables the system or requires

hard work to clean it up. In addition, this type of road allows

have a significantly (2-3 m) lower height of the overpass supports and, therefore,

lower construction cost (Fig. 7.1). For suspended roads,

on the contrary, higher supports to ensure proper floor (bottom) elevation

car bodies above the ground (4.0-5.0 m), but the running gear of the cars

are greatly simplified.

Figure 7.1. External view of the monorail cableway

The current monorails are mainly electric traction,

receiving energy from the contact wire. They are quiet and do not pollute

air basin. The monorail train, like the subway train,

may consist of one or more wagons. Max Speed

traffic on existing roads is 70-125 km / h, carrying capacity

– up to 40 thousand pass/h. The cost of building monorails is approximately 2

times lower than the cost of the underground metro. If there are free

spaces for the installation of a flyover, they are recognized as effective as

means of urban and suburban transport, as well as in highly rugged and

mountainous area.

In the eighties, scientists of the Physics and Energy Institute of the Academy of Sciences

The Latvian SSR created a very original project of a monorail on a magnetic

pillow for transportation at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.

The car was supposed to be created on the basis of the fuselage already tested in operation.

Il-18 transport aircraft (Fig. 7.2). The length of such a car, according to the project

accommodating 100 passengers, was 36 meters, width 3.5 meters, height 3,

85 meters, and weight - 40 tons. Cryostats with

superconducting magnets, which were connected to the body through the spring

suspension (because at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, disturbances from the path

it is impossible to extinguish only due to the gap in the magnetic suspension, adopted

equal to 22 millimeters). The frequency converters were controlled by the onboard

computer.

Figure 7.2 Magnetic levitation monorail

During parking and moving to the depot and equipment areas, the car must

was to move on wheels on rails with a gauge of 3 meters, when driving on

haul wheels were removed. On these wheels, the crew also had to

"land" in the event of a maglev system failure.

An experimental model was built with a wagon weighing 3.2 kilograms. AT

In the 1990s, there was no information about the continuation of work on this project.

Despite the apparent external simplicity, the monorail track is also difficult to

device, and laborious in construction. Bearing beam (actual monorail) on

hinged roads is made of monolithic or prefabricated reinforced concrete, and

on all suspended - from high-strength steel. This structural element must

withstand very heavy loads during acceleration and deceleration of trains, and

also when the trains pass curved sections of the track. Those, in

in particular, to compensate for centrifugal forces, bent in two planes, which

leads to an increase in the cost of the entire building. For example, to build a path

monorail at Disneyland had to order a complex team

formwork, consisting of fifty elements. In addition, monorails

difficult to maintain track and rolling stock, and also require lifting

passengers on and off the overpass.

These shortcomings have led to the fact that the world is currently built

several dozen separate lines of monorails with a length of

hundreds of meters to several kilometers mainly as attractions

in parks, at exhibitions, etc.

However, monorails can have their own economic

appropriate scope of application as a full-fledged type of urban and

intercity transport.

Portal for the student. Self-training

Design

Construction

excursion mode

Litigation and press releases

Preparing to enter transport mode

Stations

"Timiryazevskaya"

"Milashenkov Street"

"Telecentre"

Opening hours and ticket prices

Infrastructure

Track construction

rolling stock

Security

Criticism

Route selection

Financial side of the project

System creation costs

unprofitability

Related issues

prospects

Notes

History of the project

Project preparation and design

Construction

excursion mode

Milashenkova street

Telecentre

Academician Koroleva street

Exhibition Center

Sergei Eisenstein Street

Opening hours and ticket prices

Infrastructure

Track construction

rolling stock

carrying capacity

Passenger traffic

Security

Criticism

Route selection

Financial side of the project

System creation costs

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