Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems providing passenger service within and around urban or suburban areas. The set of urban rail systems can be roughly subdivided into the following categories, which sometimes overlap because some systems or lines have aspects of multiple types. urban railway system railway transportation system history of railway transportation importance of railway transportation railway transportation in ghana urban rail transport

1. RAILWAYS FOR URBAN
TRANSPORTATION
PRESENTED BY
GAYATHRY SATHEESAN

2. Railways for Urban Transportation
Urban rail transit in India consists of
• Suburban rail
• Rapid Transit/Metro
• Monorail
• Light rail
• Tram Systems

3. Suburban railway
• It is also called commuter rail
• passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a
city centre, commuter towns or other locations that draw large
numbers of commuters.
• Trains speeds vary from 50 to 200 km/h
• commuter trains distance varies between 15 - 200 km run on the
local standard gauge track
• The Kolkata Suburban Railway has the largest network in the
entire country

4. Rapid Transit/Metro
• It is a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and
frequency
• The first rapid transit system in India is Kolkata Metro (1984) .
• The Delhi Metro has the largest network .
• The Kochi metro is the first metro in the country which
connects rail, road and water transport facilities.
• Metro rail lines are composed of mainly standard gauge

5. Monorail
• The track consists of a single rail
• Typically elevated
• Mumbai monorail

6. Light Rail Transit System (LRT)
• using rolling stock
• The first of the light rail systems was in North America
(1978)
• Having the capacity to carry more passengers
• Appearing like a train, with more than one car connected
together .
• having more doors to facilitate full utilization of the space

7. Tram Systems
• Tramcar is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks
• The lines or networks operated by tramcars - tramways.
• Tramways powered by electricity
• lighter and shorter than conventional trains and rapid
transit trains
• The tram system in the city of Kolkata is the only tram
network operating in India

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