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1932 Deccan Queen bus in Vijayawada Bus Station. APSRTC was formed on 11 January 1958 as per "Road Transport Corporations Act 1950". Earlier, it was a part of Nizam State Rail and Road Transport Department, a wing of Nizam State Railway in the erstwhile Hyderabad State. [5]
A light rail transit (LRT) system is an urban rail transit system with a "light" passenger capacity compared to heavy rail and metro systems. Its operating characteristics are that it uses railcars , called light rail vehicles (LRVs), operating singly or in short multiple unit trains on fixed rails in a right-of-way that is not necessarily ...
In 1853, the first passenger train on 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge ran for 34 kilometres (21 mi) between Bombay and Thane which had 14-carriages carrying 400 people, hauled by three steam locomotives: the Sahib, Sindh and Sultan. [12] [13] The Great Southern of India Railway Company was established with its headquarters in England in 1853. [14]
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
Comparative passenger capacity per hour of various modes of transport. The corridor capacity in the passenger transport field refers to the maximum number of people which can be safely and comfortably transported per unit of time over a certain way with a defined width. The corridor capacity does not measure the number of vehicles which can be ...
The Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System, commonly abbreviated as MMTS, is a suburban rail system in Hyderabad, India. [5] A joint venture of the Government of Telangana (formerly Government of Andhra Pradesh) and the South Central Railway, it is operated by the latter.
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.
The Hyundai Rotem rolling stock of the Hyderabad metro [30]. The Hyderabad Metro rail project was approved by the Union government, in 2003. [31] As Hyderabad continued to grow, the Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS) had insufficient capacity for public transport, and the Union Ministry of Urban Development approved construction of the Hyderabad Metro rail project, directing the Delhi Metro ...