The Las Vegas Monorail ( formerly MGM Grand-Bally's Monorail ) is a monorail mass transit system located on the Las Vegas Strip, in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Metros, light rail, monorail, and bus rapid transit are all forms of rapid transit, which generally signifies high speed and widely spaced stops.

Now, however, the term " people mover " is generic, and may use technologies such as monorail, duorail, automated guideway transit or maglev.

Any proposals for re-establishing a train mode of transit in Barbados would require either a subway system or an elevated monorail ( likely placing it along the island's highways ).

* Turbine-powered trucks, monorail transit.

On 1 March 2012, KL Monorail was integrated with the Ampang Line light rail transit when the " paid-up " or restricted areas of the Hang Tuah monorail and LRT stations, and also at the Titiwangsa monorail and LRT stations, were physically linked up, allowing transfers without the need to buy new tickets for the first time since the system became operational.

On 2 August 2006, the federal government announced a plan to build a monorail urban transit system connecting George Town to Tanjung Tokong in the north and Bayan Lepas in the south.

The history of rail transport also includes the history of rapid transit and arguably monorail history.

In a typical dual mode transit system, private vehicles comparable to automobiles would be able to travel under driver control on the street, but then enter a guideway, which may be a specialized form of Railway or monorail, for automated travel for an extended distance.

The term " people mover " has become generic for the type of system, which may use technologies such as monorail, duorail, automated guideway transit or maglev.

Greektown Historic District, also known as Greektown, is a historic neighborhood, commercial, and entertainment district in Detroit, Michigan, located just northeast of the heart of downtown, along Monroe Avenue between Brush and St. Antoine Streets with a station on the city's elevated downtown monorail transit system known as the Detroit People Mover.

A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway.

To differentiate monorail systems from other transport modes, the Monorail Society further clarifies the definition of a monorail such that the beam in a monorail system is narrower than the vehicle.

** Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.

* There is at least one known monorail system which is not magnetically levitated, but nonetheless uses linear motors.

* The TELMAGV is a prototype of a monorail system that is also not magnetically levitated but uses linear motors.

* Aerobus, a form of transport which uses a non-typical monorail system on a cable system similar to the one used by suspension bridges

* The Simpsons episode " Marge vs. the Monorail " showed the poorly built monorail system starting to decay by showing the decal that says " Springfield Monorail " come undone, revealing that the original decal reads " 1964 World's Fair Model ".

* Mono -, numerical prefix representing anything single, e. g. as in monorail, a train system using a single rail, as opposed to the conventional two-rail system

Wills Point is also the final resting place for Trailblazer, the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States.

The KL Monorail is an urban monorail system ( previously known as Peoplemover Rapid Transit-PRT ) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A nearly identical monorail system transfers passengers at Düsseldorf Airport.

The SwissRapide AG in co-operation with the SwissRapide Consortium are developing and promoting an above-ground magnetic levitation ( Maglev ) monorail system, based on the Transrapid technology.

The airline also operated Jetrail from 1969 to 1974, the world's first fully automated monorail system.

To serve its Mukōgaoka-Yūen Amusement Park, Odakyu operated the Mukōgaoka-Yūen Monorail Line between Mukōgaoka-Yūen and Mukōgaoka-Yūen-Seimon ( 1. 1 km, 2 stations ) beginning in 1966 using a Lockheed Corporationstyle monorail system ; the system was closed in 2001 when the amusement park was shut down.

It was the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States

The first monorail was made in Russia in 1820 by Ivan Elmanov.

The Cheshunt line is notable as it was the world's first monorail to carry passengers, as well as the first railway line to be opened in Hertfordshire.

A 2. 1 km Sentosa Express monorail built by Hitachi Asia Ltd was opened on 15 January 2007, linking Sentosa island to mainland Singapore.

The name of the monorail was chosen by chief designer Chuck Faust, and is an acronym short for " who gives a shit anyway.

One of the city ’ s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail ( Wuppertaler Schwebebahn ), which was established in 1901.

On September 21, 2012, a man, David Villalobos, 25, jumped off a monorail train ( he was not strapped in, and cleared the 16-foot-high perimeter fence around the area ) into the tiger exhibit and was mauled by a male 11-year-old Siberian ( Amur ) tiger named Bashuta, who has been in residence at the Zoo for three years and will not be euthanized as a result of the incident, since it was clearly provoked and there was not a fatality.

The resort also got a new kind of ride, a monorail that was the most popular ride in 1959.

In 1960, an operator-controlled monorail was installed for the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The Dirksen monorail, which had been extended to the Hart Senate Office Building in 1982, was replaced in 1993 by an automatic train.

An unusual feature of the new museum building in 1972 was a monorail passing through the interior of the building.

Jacksonville had a VAL line inaugurated in 1989, which was shut down in December 1996 and replaced by a monorail, the JTA Skyway.

On 16 March 2005, the monorail service was discontinued to make way for the new Sentosa Express, which commenced operations on 15 January 2007.

Underwater World Monorail Station of the now-defunct Sentosa Monorail once connected visiting tourists to the western half of the island, but it no longer does as the monorail was discontinued in March 2005.

: This attraction was once served by the Fort Siloso Monorail Station of the discontinued Sentosa Monorail, after the monorail closed in 2005, the station was repurposed to add on to this attraction.

Most of the island monorail was dismantled though several of the stations were repurposed for other uses and parts of the original track structure still remain.

The monorail was replaced by the red, blue and yellow bus lines and the current Sentosa Express which operates from the main island of Singapore to Sentosa which now replaces the old monorail.

In 2002 the inter-terminal shuttle bus service was replaced by the suspended monorail called the SkyTrain connecting the terminal building with the InterCity train station.