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Monorails of Europe
 photo courtesy of SIEMENS TS. |
Düsseldorf International Airport, Germany
Siemens added another operational monorail to their resume when Düsseldorf Airport opened their SkyTrain system in 2002. The monorail is based upon the same technology used at Dortmund University. Built to drastically reduce the amount of automobile traffic to the airport, the monorail line connects the airport terminal with a new rail station on a heavily traveled Düsseldorf-Duisburg railway line. A parking lot also has a station along the route. Like Dortmund, the system is totally automated. Traveling a top speed of 50 kph, time from rail station to terminals is around 5 minutes. |
