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The Urban Transport Group (UTG) is a British transport organisation created in 2016, replacing the former Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG).. It has seven full members, the six Passenger transport executives and Transport for London and three associate members: Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Bristol and the West of England Authorities, and Nottingham City Council.
4 (1 heritage tram line) 38 131 2023 27 Manchester: United Kingdom 103 km (64 mi) 99 8 44.3 120 2020 [25] 28 Arad: Romania 100.17 km (62.24 mi) 118 16 43.3 138 2014 29 Portland: United States 97 km (60 mi) [26] 94 5 38.4 145 2023 30 Gothenburg: Sweden 160 km (99 mi) 132 13 (1 heritage tram line) [27] 140 [28] 263 [29] 2018 31 Denver: United States
The tram type is offered in metre gauge and standard gauge and allows for a tram width of 2,300, 2,400 or 2,650 mm (7 ft 6 + 9 ⁄ 16 in, 7 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in or 8 ft 8 + 5 ⁄ 16 in). Trams can be assembled from 3, 5, 7 or (only for the Urbos 100) 9 modules, with the length ranging between 23 and 56 metres (75 and 184 ft). [7]
Trams in Saint Petersburg: Russia 700+ [8] 205 km of lines remain. Detroit United Railway: USA 640 1956 Trams in Berlin: Germany 624 [9] 194 km of lines remain. Tram in Moscow: Russia 560 [10] 208 [Note 1] Trams in London: UK 523 [11] All trams removed by 1952, but a much smaller modern tramway network, London Tram, reintroduced in 2000. 1952 ...
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT) or heavy rail, [2] [3] commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A grade separated rapid transit line below ground surface through a tunnel can be regionally called a subway , tube , metro or underground .
Public transport by tram, streetcar, and light-rail street systems — always running on rail tracks, and usually an electric rail transport system. For trams in U.S. English usage, see Trackless train .
In 1860 the first urban horse railway line (a predecessor of trams), known as konka—from the Russian kon, "horse"—opened in Saint Petersburg. [3] In 1875, the world's first electric tram line operated in Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg , Russia, invented and tested by Fyodor Pirotsky .
Personal rapid transit (PRT), also referred to as podcars or guided/railed taxis, is a public transport mode featuring a network of specially built guideways on which ride small automated vehicles that carry few (generally less than 6) passengers per vehicle.