Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harkin, James

Titel

Light rail and trams: the almost complete answer to poor urban air quality

Ist Teil von

• Logistics and Transport Focus, 2015-09, Vol.17 (9), p.40

Ort / Verlag

Corby: Institute of Logistics and Transport

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Heavy rail subways take a long time to build and they are expensive. Light rail transit -- or trams, to use the more acceptable term -- is a mode of transport that uses rail vehicles that are more versatile than conventional heavy rail trains and have street running capabilities. Light rail systems offer an attractive and effective system, reducing congestion and pollution by offering an alternative to car use -- for example. Manchester Metrolink registered a modal switch approaching 32%, helping to create pollution-free zones in cities known as clear zones. Light rail vehicles can provide the ambience of a train, but can run in places where a train cannot. They are thus able to tempt motorists out of cars where a bus would not. Even when running on former rail alignments, light rail vehicles can offer a more frequent service and can stop at more places, because the stops are much easier and cheaper to construct than railway stations.