Impressions of Monorailex 2022

The 2022 Program

Conference Days

Friday, September 16, 2022

12:00 Board Meeting (all Executive Board members)
14:00 Light Lunch Snack (all IMA members)
15:00 Annual General Members Meeting (all IMA members)

19:00 Welcome Reception (all registered Monorailex conference participants)

Saturday, September 17, 2022

08:00	Registration
09:00	Welcome
09:10	Keynote Speech Paulo Sèrgio Amalfi Meca, Director of Engineering and Planning, Metrô São Paulo
09:50	P1 – The Role of Monorails in the Multimodal World of Future Mobility. Metrô São Paulo, Fogtec
10:30	Coffe break
11:00	P3 – Selection of a mass railway transport system for an urban area based on multicriteria analysis. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
11:30	P4 – Sustainability Due to Flexible Adaptation of Catamaran Bearings to Monorail Guideway Beam Conditions. Maurer
12:00	P5 – Solving Special Aspects of Bearings Design for Monorail Structures. Mageba
12:30	Lunch, sponsored by Hirun International Restaurant Don Quichotte, Hotel El Andaluz
13:30	P6 – Monitoring the Fitness of the Monorail Structural Bearings. Hirun International
14:00	P7 – Condition based Maintenance for Door Systems in Rail Vehicles. Bode
14:30	P8 – Retrofit and Facelifting of Monorail Systems. Derap
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	P9 – Monorail Guideway – Subsystem Progressive Assurance. Peart Consultancy, Innova
16:00	P10 – Civil works in monorail projects: Safety management in accordance with EN 50126. TÜV Rheinland
16:30	In-house Exhibition
18:15	Closing of Day One
18:45	Transfer with EP-Express to Formal Dinner Meeting point in the lobby of the Hotel Bell Rock
19:00	Formal Dinner, sponsored by Derap, Fogtec, Innova Location: Bistro Tomi Ungerer, French themed area

Sunday, September 18, 2022

08:00	In-house Exhibition
09:00	P11 – Research on linear adjustment of guideways of straddle monorail transit rigid frame system. Beijing Jiaotong University, Prof. Dr. Eryu Zhu
09:30	P12 – Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Operation Phase of Metro and Monorail Transits in Chongqing China. Beijing Jiaotong University, Dr. Teng Li
10:00	P13 – Contactless and Wheel independent Speed Measurement for ‘Mono’-rail Vehicle, HaslerRail
10:30	Coffee Break, in the cloister
11:00	P14 – Active Fire Protection Solutions in Monorail Systems – Opportunities and Challenges. Fogtec
11:30	P15 – Signalling System: CBTC Technology Rubber Wheels onboard Odometry. Hitachi
12:00	P16 – IMA Market Study on Monorail System Worldwide. SCI Verkehr
12:30	Lunch, sponsored by Beijing Jiaoting University, Location: Restaurant Don Quichotte, Hotel El Andaluz
13:30	P17 – Monorail in Pioneer – PATS Best Practice in Wuhu, China. PATS Puzhen Alstom Transportation Systems
14:00	P18 – Cairo Monorail – Project Overview and Advancements in Design and Construction Technology. Hill International
14:30	P19 – Cairo Monorail Lines between Concept and Reality 2022. Innova
15:00	P20 – IMA Performance Specification for a Turnkey Mass Transit Monorail System. IMA
15:30	Closing of Day Two
	Coffee Break
16:00	Technical Guided Tour Europa-Park at the Attractions „EP-Express“ and „Monorail“ incl. Round Trip, approx. 2h
19:00	Closing Dinner, sponsored by Derap, Fogtec, Innova Location: Restaurant Harborside, Hotel Bell Rock

Technical Visits Days

Monday, September 19, 2022

Locations: Rust, Nuremberg
08:00 Start from hotel, Bus transfer to Nuremberg
13:00 Arrival in Nuremberg
14:00 Visit of VAG Nürnberg, Headquarters / GoA4 Metro System
18:00 Brewery Tour
19:00 Beer Garden Dinner

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Locations: Nuremberg, Berlin
09:00 Visit of DB Train Museum
13:01 Transfer to Berlin with ICE Highspeed Train ICE 1004
15:51 Arrival in Berlin Main Station
– Individual Leisure Time –

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Location: Berlin
09:00 Visit of InnoTrans 2022, the world‘s largest trade fair for transport technology
10:00 Start of Guided Tour, IMA Booth (Hall 4.2, #100)
12:00 End of Guided Tour

– End of Monorailex 2022 –