Innovia solutions – what are they exactly ? The Innovia train family consists of two solutions: automated people movers (APMs) and monorails. Both are fully automated and driverless, come with their own dedicated infrastructure and provide connections above and away from the city, namely urban areas and airports. APMs are ideally suited to airport contexts, “from city to sky”, covering short distances between terminals or from airport to metro terminus. The trains are made up of single cars that are coupled together, which gives a lot of: at peak hours you can couple extra cars to increase capacity up to 900 passengers per train. People movers can operate elevated, at ground or underground, whereas the monorail’s infrastructure is entirely elevated, giving its passengers a unique travel experience across the city. Two days ago, I heard a customer comparing it to a flying carpet! The first monorail was developed for Walt Disney World in Florida around 40 years ago, for leisure, but now it is a serious means of transport because it is easy to build and install while offering comfortable mass transit capacity for city travel (from 270 to 1,150 passengers per train). The monorail is a fixed unit, with walk-through interiors for greater passenger comfort in cities, where journey times tend to be slightly longer. Monorail infrastructure – concrete pillars and a beam – has two advantages: firstly, you don’t need to disturb the city – for example you can install the pillars in the middle of an avenue; and secondly, it is quick to manufacture, because you can make the pillars off-site. (....)