Abstract
The rapid and large-scale construction of urban rail transit in China in recent years has drawn worldwide attention. The progress report and analysis would be a good reference for regional urban transit planning and policy, and for financial investment and service improvement in future. This paper offers a high-level summary of infrastructure statistics. In particular, this paper reviewed the spatial service coverage, passenger service performance and operational efficiency of urban rail transit in Mainland China and analyzed the development characteristics, such as the developing scales and multi-type urban rail transit modes based on the Annual Report of the China Urban Mass Transit work from 2008 to 2015. Suggestions and trends for further development of urban rail transit in China are proposed.
Highlights
The urban rail transit system, including metro, tram, light rail and monorail except for inter-city high-speed rail, is the backbone of the public transit
This paper reviewed the spatial service coverage, passenger service performance and operational efficiency of urban rail transit in Mainland China and analyzed the development characteristics, such as the developing scales and multi-type urban rail transit modes based on the Annual Report of the China Urban Mass Transit work from 2008 to 2015
This study summarized the corresponding socioeconomic data of the cities with urban rail transit systems in service in China, reviewed the spatial service coverage, passenger service performance, and operational efficiency during 2015
Summary
The urban rail transit system, including metro, tram, light rail and monorail except for inter-city high-speed rail, is the backbone of the public transit. Unlike the high-speed railway which is managed directly by the State Railway Administration and China Railway Corporation (formerly known as Ministry of Railways of the People’s Republic of China), the urban rail transit system is managed by local governments and companies. For this reason, it is relatively difficult to collect the precise and detailed operating information about urban rail transit systems in different cities because of the diversity of system types and the decentralization of their supervision. With the development of other small cities, Qingdao, Nanchang and Huai’an are the new operational systems in 2015
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