SAFEGE is a French consulting and engineering firm, founded as a consortium of 25 companies including Michelin and Renault. The name is an acronym for Société Anonyme Française d'Etude de Gestion et d
SAFEGE test track in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 1963
The preserved car and track of the Higashiyama Zoo Monorail in 2017
Chiba Urban Monorail in 2020
A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track, which is built above streets, waterways, or existing railway track.
SAFEGE
…environmental engineering. The majority of its business activity—around 60% of turnover—is based in France. The SAFEGE consortium developed a type of suspension railway technology in the late 1950s. The design team was headed by engineer Lucien Chadenson. The system was conceived as a potential extension of the Paris…
The Memphis Suspension Railway
Monorail by Ippolit V. Romanov
Section of the Schwebebahn installation in Wuppertal, Germany