Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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.
Many U.S. cities have lower public transit use than New York and some similarly sized Canadian and Mexican cities. The number of miles traveled by vehicles in the United States fell by 3.6% in 2008, while the number of trips taken on mass transit increased by 4.0%.
In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn. As of 22 December 2024, [update] 204 cities in 63 countries operate 884 metro lines.
Mass transit refers to shared transportation services used by the general public. Mass transit may also refer to: Rapid transit, high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas; Mass Transit incident (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling incident that occurred in 1996
A variant of the term, mass rapid transit (MRT), is also used for metro systems in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Though the term was almost always used to describe rail transportation, other forms of transit were sometimes described by their proponents as rapid transit, including local ferries in some cases.
Three years after Covid brought U.S. mass transit to a near halt, commuters in the country's urban hubs are slowly coming back — with one notable exception.. At least seven of the nine largest ...
Bus rapid transit creep is a phenomenon commonly defined as a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that fails to meet the requirements to be considered "true BRT". These systems are often marketed as a fully realized bus rapid transit system, but end up being described as more of an improvement to regular bus service by proponents of the "BRT creep ...