SAFEGE is an acronym for the French consortium Société Anonyme Française d'Etude de Gestion et d'Entreprises and is pronounced in English.
The preserved car and track of the Higashiyama Zoo Monorail in 2008
The preserved car and track of the Higashiyama Zoo Monorail in 2017
The Shonan Monorail in Japan
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style of track. Monorail systems are most frequently implemented in large cities, airports, and theme parks.
Chongqing Rail Transit has the longest and busiest monorail system in the world, with Line 3 being the longest and busiest single monorail line.
São Paulo Metro Line 15, is the longest and busiest monorail line in the Americas, and second worldwide.
Monorail on concrete columns in Chongqing, China
Gyroscopically balanced monorail (1909) by Brennan and Scherl