EVACUATION: In terms of occasional mechanical problems, and major breakdowns such as in earthquakes, evacuation of a Suspension Monorail carriage is clearly not as simple as exiting a ground-based vehicle.

Because of this, systems have been developed for passengers to exit a stranded vehicle. Sometimes this can be to another overhead vehicle (on the same track nose-to-tail, or on a parallel track side-by-side); and sometimes passengers may exit via a chute to the road below, in the same way that passengers exit from a stranded aircraft.

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