The Renaissance Of The American Rail Transit Since The 1970s

Since the 20th century, 70 years, the excessive use of cars led to a series of problems, traffic congestion, environmental pollution and serious waste of resources plaguing the development of American cities, especially the issue of traffic congestion has become a common problem many U.S. cities and two oil - crisis, a catalyst for a United States to reconsider public transportation means, we hope to change the status quo. Rail transport in this wave surrounded, by virtue of their own advantages, was re-development. In this paper, the United States the re-development of rail transportation focal point for research. Mainly includes the 20th century, 70 years before the rise and fall of the U.S. rail transportation, the 20th century United States since the 70s revival of the reasons for rail transportation, as well as the performance of its revival and rehabilitation implications.Introduction describes some of the major topics of this article based on research situation, and research methods.The first part mainly elaborated 70 years ago the United States the development of rail transportation, focusing on streetcars to the prosperity and decline of development.The second part focused on analysis of body mass transit renaissance reasons: cars cause various problems, the United States began to attach importance to public transport and be supported by legal provisions, rail traffic with their own advantages, has been re-development opportunities. This part of the above factors to analyze.The body of the third part focuses on the revival of rail transit performance. Carried out mainly through the large number of cases cited examples of analysis.Part IV analyzes the text of the revival of rail transit to the United States by the impact. The focus is mainly reflected in the impact on the city's overall development.Conclusion section of the paper was summarized as a whole, the simple sum of the rail transportation to re-development of reason, the development of rail transportation to some specific situations, as well as far-reaching implications on the city. And noted that the rail transport system is different from the tram streetcar era, especially in the status, the two are essentially different. At the same time, the author also put forward, through the development of rail transportation on the rise and fall of the U.S. understanding of China can also be from the U.S. transportation planning to get some enlightenment.