Passenger transport systems operating within a metropolitan area, including subways, trams, light rail and buses, organized around fixed routes and high frequency scheduling to move large volumes of people efficiently within a dense city where private vehicles alone cannot scale. The London Underground opened the worlds first section of underground urban railway in 1863, the Metropolitan Railway. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ConcernHigh frequency, high volume passenger movement within a dense metropolitan area. 1 Origin YearDated to the 1863 opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London, the first underground urban passenger railway; horse drawn omnibuses and trams predate this. Sources
1. Wikipedia: Public Transport
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Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) refers to forms of transport made available for use by the general public.
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Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit)
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Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) refers to forms of transport made available for use by the general public.
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Wikipedia: Pedestrianization
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was converted from car traffic into a pedestrian zone in 1962 as an experiment
Wikipedia: Last Mile (Transportation)
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"Last mile" also describes the difficulty in getting people from a transportation hub, especially railway stations, bus depots, and ferry berths, to their final destination.
San Francisco Municipal Railway (Wikipedia)
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is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California
RATP Group (Wikipedia)
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operates public transport systems primarily in Paris, France
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Wikipedia)
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operates transit services in the Washington metropolitan area
Transport for London (Wikipedia)
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responsible for most of the transport network in London
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Wikipedia)
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responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area
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