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Metroan urban connection

Background information

• A metro or rapid transit is an underground train which transports passengers.

• It is undoubtedly the best way to transport large numbers of people over short distances quickly and with little land use within most cities.

• At first these systems used steam locomotives. Nowadays they generally use electric systems.

Cross section of a metro station

elevator

platform

track bed

escalator

A European comparison

Paris Athens Rome Nuremberg

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Warsaw

Istanbul

Bucharest

Madrid

Métro Paris

• The Métro in Paris was founded in 1900

• The network's sixteen lines are mostly underground and run to 214 km in length. There are 301 stations.

• The average distance between stations is only 562 m.

• There is a driverless system on line 17.back >>

Metro Athens• The metro in Athens opened in 1869. It is

the second oldest metro throughout the world.

• It concludes three lines. Line two and three were built in 2000, especially for the Olympic Games in 2004. There are five more lines planned in the future.

• Nowadays it is the most modern metro worldwide.

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Metropolitana di Roma

• The Metropolitana di Roma opened in 1954. It consists of two crossing lines and 52 stations. Seven stations are not below ground.

• The Metroplitana is a relatively small rapid transit in comparison to other European major cities.

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U-Bahn Nürnberg

• The metro in Nuremberg was opened in 1972. Since 2008 it is the first driverless metro system in Germany.

• It includes three main lines and two further supporting lines. There are 46 stations.

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Warsaw Metro

• Firstly opened in 1995

• Contains one line with 21 stations (plus seven under constructions)

• The Warsaw Metro has transported more than 600 million people

• The total length is 21,7 km

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Bucharest Metro

• The Metro Bucharest (Metrou București)was opened in 1979.

• It contains four lines and 50 stations.

• The whole railway network is about 69 km long.

• The average number of passengers is 485.000 a day.

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Metro Madrid

• The Metro Madrid (Metro de Madrid) was opened in 1919.

• It is the fifth longest railway system (293 km) all over the world. Just New York has more stations than Madrid (288).

• The Metro transports around 2.5 million passengers daily.

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Metro Istanbul

• The Metro Istanbul (İstanbul Metrosu) was opened in 1989.

• It contains four lines (three more are in construction) and 58 stations (28 more are in construction).

• The full length of the railway system is 83 km.• About 230.000 passengers use it daily.

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StatisticsParis Athens Rome Nurembe

rgWarsaw Buchare

stMadrid Istanbul

length 218,4 55 41,5 36 21,7 69,25 293 83

stations 302 51 52 46 21 50 288 58

lines 16 3 2 3 1 4 13 4

Passengers a day

4,5 mio 605.000 850.000 322.000 466.000 485.000 2,5 mio 450.000

People using the metro in comparison to city inhabitans (%)

200 92 31 63 27 28 83 3

Comparable fact

• Istanbul is the biggest city in Europe. But its metro is not quite used as often as the metro in Paris (2.3 million inhabitants), which has a population of roughly just one sixth of Istanbul (13.7 million). Paris, however has 16 lines while Istanbul has only four subway lines!