URBAN RAILWAYS IN LARGE CITIES: REFLECTIONS BEFORE THE LAUSANNE IRCA/UIC CONFERENCE

It used to be a rule of thumb in discussions about "urban" (usually underground) railways a generation ago that at the 2 million population mark a city was beginning to feel the need for an underground system; but the rise of the private motor car has already made something more like 1 million the "threshold" point, and Rotterdam and Oslo have found underground lines to be needed well before reaching the million mark. The suburban services of main-line railways make their contribution to big-city movement in different proportions.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Broadfields (Technical Publishers) Limited

  Little Leighs
  Chelmsford, Essex CMB 1PM,   England 
• Authors:
  • Robbins, R M
• Publication Date: 1973-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Rail Engineering International
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: De Rooi Publications
  • ISSN: 0141-4615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuter service; Rapid transit; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046857
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1981 12:00AM