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‘rapid transit’
‘mass rapid transit’ (MRT)
‘heavy rail’
‘metro’
‘subway’
‘tube’
‘u-bahn’
‘underground’
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*’rapid transit’ is a type of ‘high-capacity public transport’ generally found in ‘urban areas’*
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(unlike ‘buses’ or ‘trams’, ‘rapid transit systems’ are ‘electric railways’ that operate on an ‘exclusive right-of-way’, which cannot be accessed by ‘pedestrians’ or other ‘vehicles’ of any sort, and which is often ‘grade separated’ in ‘tunnels’ or on ‘elevated railways’)
(modern services on ‘rapid transit systems’ are provided on ‘designated lines’ between ‘stations’ typically using ‘electric multiple units’ on ‘rail tracks’, although some ‘systems’ use ‘guided rubber tires’, ‘magnetic levitation’, or ‘monorail’)
(the ‘stations’ typically have ‘high platforms’, without ‘steps’ inside the ‘trains’, requiring ‘custom-made trains’ in order to minimize gaps between ‘train’ and ‘platform’)
(they are typically integrated with other ‘public transport’ and often operated by the same ‘public transport authorities’)
(however, some ‘rapid transit systems’ have ‘at-grade intersections’ between a ‘rapid transit line’ and a ‘road’ or between 2 ‘rapid transit lines’)
(it is ‘unchallenged’ in its ability to transport large numbers of people quickly over ‘short distances’ with little to no use of ‘land’)
(the world’s first ‘rapid transit system’ was the partially underground ‘metropolitan railway’ which opened as a ‘conventional railway’ in ‘1863’, and now forms part of the ‘london underground’)
(in ‘1868’, ‘new york’ opened the elevated ”west side’ and ‘yonkers’ patent railway’, initially a ‘cable-hauled line’ using ‘static steam engines’)
(‘china’ has the largest number of ‘rapid transit systems’ in the world at ’31’, with over ‘4,500 kilometers’ of lines and is responsible for most of the world’s ‘rapid transit expansion’ in the past decade)
(the world’s longest ‘single-operator rapid transit system’ by ‘route length’ is the ‘shanghai metro’)
(the world’s largest ‘single rapid transit service provider’ by ‘number of stations’ (with ‘472 stations’ in total) is the ‘NYC subway’)
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(the busiest rapid transit systems in the world (by ‘annual ridership’) are…)
‘tokyo subway system’
‘seoul metropolitan subway’
*the ‘moscow metro’*
*the ‘beijing subway’*
*the ‘shanghai metro’*
*the ‘guangzhou metro’*
*the ‘new york city subway’*
*the ‘mexico city metro’*
*the ‘paris metro’*
*the “hong kong MTR”*
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