week 1 report

This week is mainly focused on researching on existing or similar project like Spartan Superway. Based on research, I noticed few different aspects especially on how they fix the cart onto the track.
There are few similar concepts as Superway exist in Japan and German. However, the existing project in Japan and German is hanging monorail. Compare to Superway, these designs are less flexible.
 This graph here is one concept
this is an image of current hanging monorail in German. 

the image above shows a new idea of bogie system. In the future, we might be able to use some of the concept from it. 

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