Study Of The Applicability Of Modern Trams

With the urbanization levels improving in our country, the urban traffic may face more and more challenges, meanwhile, the demands of urban transit are going into diversification. The modern trams will be developed fast in our country as the exactly suitable transit mode between urban mass transit and normal transit. This dissertation has presented the whole nature of modern trams, discussed the applicability from three parts: the function, the technical qualification and the compare between different sorts of public transit. The main conclusions are as follows:First, after the analyzation of diverse cases about modern tram's function, and theoretical calculation of the capacity and speed of modern trams, this dissertation draws a conclusion of the passenger volume demand and rapid transit routeway which modern trams are applicable, and puts forward the function of modern trams in different stage of development in our councty.Second, this dissertation disgusses the technical qualification of a modern tramway, the right-of-way, the signal control in grade crossing, the layout of tramway lanes and stations, and the track structure of modern trams. Conclusions about the feasibility of modern trams on existed streets and applicable qualification of different technical schemes are drawn.Third, this dissertation detailedly compares the modern trams and other public transit modes (mainly with BRT) from three aspects: function, expense and energy consumption. The advantage and disadvantage of modern trams, and the conclusions about applicability of different rapid public transits are drawn.In the finality, this dissertation takes Jiading District in Shanghai as an instance to analyze the applied technical schemes.