Unit 1 History of Urban Rail Transit
Text A The First Underground Railways
Text B Light Rail and Its History
Unit 2 China’s Urban Rail Transit
Text A More Cities to Embrace Urban Rail Transit
Text B A Retrospection on the Construction of the Beijing Subway
Unit 3 Transit.Oriented Development
Text A How to Make Transit—Oriented Development Work
Text B Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub,the World’S Most Complex.
Unit 4 Rail Transport Vehicles
Text A Maglev:The New Mode of Transport fOr the 21 st Century
Text B How Magnetic Levitation Can Revolutionize World Transportation
Unit 5 Control and Communication
Text A Development of Signal System for Urban Rail Transit
Text B Communication—Based Train Control System
Unit 6 Benefits&Challenges of Urban Rail Transit
Text A All Aboard for Light Rail
Text B Light Rail———the Solution to Inner—City Chaos?
Unit 7 Urban Rail Transit and City Development
Text A Next Stop.Antiquity Station
Text B Take the A Train(or the F,the Q,the 1,the 7
Unit 8 Safety System of Urban Rail Transit
Text A Urban Rail Safety:Lessons from the U.S
Text B City Is Asked to Rethink Rail Stations Deep Underground
Unit 9 Green Urban Transport
Text A Hydrail—The Green Transport Solution We’ve A11 Been Waiting for?
Text B Noise Emission of Light—Rail Vehicles—State of the Art
Unit 10 The Future of Urban Transit
Text A The Future of Urban Transportation Is in Electric Mobility
Text B Back to the Future: Top Trends in Subway and Railway Station Design
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