List of tram and light rail transit systems
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The following is a list of cities that have tram / light-rail systems as part of their public transport system.
See also:
- List of town tramway systems
- List of metro systems
- List of rapid transit systems
- List of suburban and commuter rail systems
- List of rail transit systems in the United States
- List of United States light rail systems by ridership
- List of trolleybus systems
Asia
- Tianjin[1] - see TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram
- Changchun[2] – Changchun Light Rail Transit, tram
- Dalian[3] - tram, light rail
- Beijing[4],[5] - a sightseeing tram from Qianmen Street to Xizhimen opened in 2009; from 1924 to 1966 Beijing had trams with 7 lines from 1949 to 1966; current line consists of two trams carrying 84 passengers each over a 845m route.
- Jerusalem[9]– Jerusalem Light Rail under construction
- Tel Aviv[10] – Tel Aviv Light Rail under construction
- Haifa[11] - Carmelit- Subway since 1959; light rail planned for completion in 2009
- Fukui[14] – Fukui Railway (Interurban streetcar)
- Hakodate – Hakodate City Transportation Bureau[15] (tramway)
- Hiroshima – Hiroshima Electric Railway[16] (tramway with LRVs)
- Kagoshima – Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
- Kamakura, Fujisawa – Enoshima Electric Railway (light rail)
- Kitakyūshū – Chikuhō Electric Railroad (tramway consist of private right of way)
- Kōchi – Tosa Electric Railway (tramway)
- Kumamoto – Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
- Kyoto – Keifuku Electric Railroad (light rail)
- Matsuyama – Iyo Railway (tramway)
- Nagasaki – Nagasaki Electric Tramway (tramway)
- Okayama – Okayama Electric Tramway (tramway)
- Osaka, Sakai – Hankai Electric Tramway (light rail)
- Ōtsu – Keishin Line, Ishiyama Sakamoto Line (Interurban light rail) operated by Keihan Electric Railway
- Sapporo – Sapporo Street Car (tramway) operated by Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
- Takaoka, Imizu – Manyōsen Corporation (tramway)
- Tokyo - Tokyo Toden (Trams in Tokyo)
- – Toden Arakawa Line (tramway) operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
- – Tōkyū Setagaya Line (tramway consist of private right of way) operated by Tokyu Corporation
- Toyama
- – Toyama City Line (tramway) operated by Toyama Chihō Railway
- – Toyama Light Rail (from 29 April 2006)
- Toyohashi – Toyohashi City Line (tramway) operated by Toyohashi Railroad
Proposed Light Rail Systems in Japan
- Chongjin - tram
- Pyongyang – Pyongyang Tram see also Trams in Pyongyang
- Manila – Manila Light Rail Transit System (LRT) (two lines),
- Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT)
- Philippine National Railways (PNR)
- Panay Railway
- Mindanao Railway
- Yongin – EverLine Rapid Transit System (LRT)
- Keelung – Keelung Light Rapid Transit (proposed)
Africa
- Cairo – trams, connects suburb Heliopolis which has tram, another suburb Heluan also has tram, but not connected with Cairo. See Trams in Greater Cairo
- Alexandria – trams, Alexandria Tram
- Abuja – Phase 1 to be completed 2007 [6]
- Calabar – Monorail is being developed [7]
- Lagos – Lagos Light Rail is being developed [8] by Lemna International [9][10]
- Lagos - Eko Tramway is being developed with the Eko Atlantic City project [11]
- Port Harcourt – This is being developed [12]
- Kimberley – heritage tram
- Tunis - modern tram – métro léger – list of Tunis Métro stations
Europe
- Gmunden, Gmunden-Vorchdorf, Vorchdorf-Lambach, Lambach-Haag, Vöcklamarkt-Attersee
- Graz
- Innsbruck
- Linz, Linz-Pöstlingberg, Linz-Waizenkirchen
- Salzburg
- Wien (Vienna), Wien-Baden
- Antwerp, operated by De Lijn
- Brussels, operated by MIVB/STIB
- Charleroi, operated by TEC
- Ghent, operated by De Lijn
- Belgian Coast Tram, operated by De Lijn
- Bordeaux – Tramway de Bordeaux
- Clermont-Ferrand – Tramway de Clermont-Ferrand
- Grenoble – Tramway de Grenoble
- Île-de-France (Paris) – Tramways in Paris
- Le Mans[18]
- Lille to Roubaix and Tourcoing – Tramway de Lille
- Lyon – Tramways in Lyon
- Marseille – Tramway de Marseille
- Montpellier – Tramway de Montpellier
- Mulhouse – Tramway de Mulhouse
- Nantes – Tramway de Nantes
- Nice – Tramway de Nice
- Orléans – Tramway d'Orléans
- Rouen – Tramway de Rouen
- Saint-Etienne – Tramway de Saint-Etienne
- Strasbourg – Tramways in Strasbourg
- Valenciennes – Tramway de Valenciennes
Light rail (Stadtbahn or Strassenbahn)
- Baden-Baden, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim (linked as Stadtbahn Karlsruhe/Karlsruher Modell)
- Bielefeld
- Bochum, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr (linked as Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr)
- Bonn, Cologne(Köln), Siegburg (linked as Stadtbahn Köln/Bonn)
- Frankfurt (Frankfurt U-Bahn is also technically a light rail transit system, see also Frankfurt Transit)
- Hanover
- Kassel
- Saarbrücken
- Stuttgart
Tram
- Bad Schandau – Kirnitzschtalbahn
- Berlin
- Bochum
- Bonn
- Braunschweig - Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG
- Darmstadt
- Dresden – Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe
- Duisburg
- Düsseldorf
- Essen
- Frankfurt am Main
- Frankfurt (Oder) (although Line 4 is built to light-rail specifications)
- Freiburg im Breisgau – Freiburger Verkehrs AG
- Gelsenkirchen
- Herne
- Kassel
- Leipzig
- Mainz
- Mannheim
- Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Munich
- Oberhausen
- ~50 others [13]
- Budapest – tram lines operated by BKV
- Debrecen – tram lines operated by DKV
- Miskolc – tram lines operated by MVK Rt.
- Szeged – tram lines operated by SzKT
- Dublin – Luas (operated by Veolia Transport)
- Bergamo
- Cagliari
- Firenze (under construction)
- L'Aquila (projected Translohr-type)
- Messina
- Milano
- Napoli
- Padova (Translohr-type)
- Palermo (under construction)
- Roma
- Sassari
- Soprabolzano – Renon – Collalbo
- Torino
- Trieste – Opicina Tramway
- Venezia (Translohr-type under construction)
- Amsterdam – Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf (GVB)
- Rotterdam – Rotterdamse Elektrische Tramweg Maatschappij (RET)
- The Hague, Delft – Haagsche Tramweg Maatschappij (HTM)
- The Hague, Zoetermeer – Randstadrail HTM Personenvervoer (HTM)
- The Hague, Rotterdam – Randstadrail Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram (RET)
- Gouda, Alphen aan den Rijn – Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), project of RijnGouweLijn (RGL) – partly shares tracks with NS-rapid transit
- Utrecht – Connexxion (NS-Sneltram)
- Houten – Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) in collaboration with (HTM)
- Bergen – Bergen Light Rail (scheduled to open in 2010)
- Oslo – Oslo Tramway
- Oslo – Oslo T-bane. On line 1 there are short vehicles (36 m), partly running on tramway with overhead wires and street crossings.
- Trondheim – Trondheim Tramway
- Bydgoszcz
- Częstochowa
- Elbląg
- Gdańsk
- Gorzów Wielkopolski
- Upper Silesia – Silesian Interurbans
- Grudziądz
- Kraków
- Łódź (also nearby cities of Pabianice and Zgierz connected)
- Poznań – Poznański Szybki Tramwaj
- Szczecin
- Toruń
- Warsaw – Tramwaje Warszawskie (city trams), Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (suburban light rail)
- Wrocław
- Lisboa
- Porto (Metro do Porto)
- Margem Sul (Metro Sul do Tejo)
- Additional light urban rail plans in course for Coimbra and Faro
- Arad
- Botoşani
- Brăila
- Bucharest (includes both a high-density tram network and a modern light rail network)
- Cluj-Napoca
- Craiova
- Galaţi
- Iaşi
- Oradea
- Reşiţa
- Ploieşti
- Sibiu
- Timişoara
- Achinsk
- Angarsk
- Arkhangelsk
- Astrakhan
- Barnaul
- Biysk
- Chelyabinsk
- Cherepovets
- Cheryomushki
- Dzerzhinsk
- Groznyi
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Izhevsk
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Kemerovo
- Khabarovsk
- Kolomna
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- Krasnoarmeysk
- Krasnodar
- Krasnoturinsk
- Krasnoyarsk
- Kursk
- Lipetsk
- Magnitogorsk
- Moscow
- Naberezhnye Chelny
- Nizhnekamsk
- Nizhniy Tagil
- Noginsk
- Novocherkassk
- Novokuznetsk
- Novosibirsk
- Novotroitsk
- Omsk
- Orel
- Orsk
- Osinniki
- Perm
- Prokopyevsk
- Pyatigorsk
- Rostov-on-Don
- Ryazan
- St. Petersburg (Tramways in Saint Petersburg)
- Salavat
- Samara
- Saratov
- Smolensk
- Stary Oskol
- Taganrog
- Tomsk
- Tula
- Tver
- Ufa
- Ulan-Ude
- Ulyanovsk
- Usolye Sibirskoye
- Ust-Ilimsk
- Ust-Katav
- Vladikavkaz
- Vladivostok
- Volchansk
- Volgograd (Metrotram system)
- Volzhsky
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
- Yekaterinburg
- Zlatoust
Complete list: [14]
- Belgrade – Belgrade Light Metro (Under construction – the first line will be finished in 2013)
- Alicante – Alicante Tram (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana)
- Barcelona (Trambaix and Trambesòs)
- Bilbao – EuskoTran
- Granada (under construction)
- Madrid – Metro Ligero
- Murcia
- Parla (A municipality of the Madrid Metropolitan Area) – Tranvía de Parla
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Tenerife Tram
- Seville – MetroCentro tramway
- Sóller – Puerto de Sóller
- Valencia – Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Vélez-Málaga
- Bratislava (since 1895)
- Košice
- Poprad-Štrbské Pleso (Tatra Electric Railway)
- Štrba-Štrbské Pleso (Štrbské Pleso – Štrba rack railway)
- Trenčianska Teplá-Trenčianske Teplice
- Gothenburg – Gothenburg tram
- Lidingö – Lidingöbanan
- Malmö – heritage tramway
- Norrköping – Norrköping tramway
- Stockholm – Djurgårdslinjen, Nockebybanan, Tvärbanan
- Adana - light metro (under construction)
- Ankara, see Ankaray - light rail
- Antalya - heritage tram
- Bursa, see Bursaray - light rail
- Eskişehir - tram
- Gaziantep - light metro (planned)
- Istanbul, see Marmaray and Istanbul Metro-heritage tram, modern tram & light rail; see also Trams in Istanbul, Istanbul Nostalgic Tram, Istanbul Modern Tram
- Izmir - light metro
- Kayseri - tram (Kayseray), (under construction)
- Konya - tram
- Samsun - light metro (under construction)
- Trabzon - tram (planned)
- Avdiivka
- Chernivtsi
- Dniprodzerzhynsk
- Dnipropetrovsk
- Donetsk
- Druzhkivka
- Eupatoria, tram
- Horlivka
- Kiev – tram and fast tram
- Kharkiv
- Konotop, the smallest town with a stand-alone tram
- Kostiantynivka
- Kramatorsk
- Kryvyi Rih – Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
- Luhansk
- Lviv – Lviv tram
- Makiivka
- Mariupol
- Mykolaiv
- Odessa
- Vinnytsia
- Yenakiieve
- Zaporizhia
- Zhytomyr
- For a more extensive list including closed systems, see List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom
- Belfast – future EWAY, WWAY, CITI, SupeRoute
- Birmingham to Wolverhampton – Midland Metro
- Birkenhead - Wirral Transport Museum
- Blackpool – Blackpool tramway
- Crich – preserved National Tramway Museum
- Edinburgh – future Edinburgh Trams
- Glasgow - Glasgow Subway
- Liverpool - proposed Merseytram
- London – Tramlink. (The Docklands Light Railway is not light rail by conventional definitions.)
- Manchester – Manchester Metrolink
- Nottingham – Nottingham Express Transit
- Seaton, Devon – preserved Seaton Tramway
- Sheffield – Sheffield Supertram
- Tyne and Wear – Tyne and Wear Metro
Proposed light-rail systems in United Kingdom
- London - North and West London Light railway. (This may or may not be light rail by conventional definitions.)
Oceania
Existing:
- Ballarat – heritage tramway
- Bendigo – heritage tramway
- Perth – heritage tramway at Whiteman Park
- Melbourne – Trams in Melbourne, largest in the world
- Sydney – Metro Light Rail - modern tramway
- Adelaide – Glenelg Tramway; O-Bahn (guided busway)
Proposed:
- Brisbane – inner city area (numerous proposals)
- Gold Coast – Gold Coast Light Rail
North America
- Calgary, Alberta – C-Train
- Edmonton, Alberta – Edmonton LRT
- Ottawa, Ontario – O-Train (diesel-powered pilot project)
- Toronto, Ontario – Toronto streetcar system
- Vancouver, British Columbia - Granville Island Streetcar
- Guadalajara – tren eléctrico urbano, running from north to south, with terminals in both sides of the outer ring, through the Colón-Federalismo avenue. SITEUR [15]
- Mexico City – Xochimilco–Tasqueña tren ligero [16]
- Monterrey [17]
Current and future light-rail systems
- Austin, Texas – Capital MetroRail (scheduled opening currently delayed)
- Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore Light Rail
- Boston, Massachusetts – MBTA Green Line
- Buffalo, New York – Buffalo Metro Rail
- Camden, New Jersey to Trenton, New Jersey – River Line
- Charlotte, North Carolina – Lynx Light Rail
- Cleveland, Ohio – RTA Blue and Green Lines
- Dallas, Texas – Dallas Area Rapid Transit Light Rail
- Denver, Colorado – TheRide
- Houston, Texas – METRO Light Rail
- Hudson County, New Jersey – Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
- Kenosha, Wisconsin – Kenosha Transit
- Los Angeles, California – LACMTA Blue Line, Green Line, Gold Line, Expo Line (Expo Line projected to open in 2010)
- Memphis, Tennessee – MATA Trolley
- Minneapolis, Minnesota – Hiawatha Line
- New Orleans, Louisiana – New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA)
- Newark, New Jersey – Newark Light Rail
- Norfolk, Virginia – Tide Light Rail (scheduled opening in 2010)
- Oceanside, California – SPRINTER
- Phoenix, Arizona – Valley Metro Rail
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley Lines and Suburban Trolley Lines
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Light Rail ("The T")
- Portland, Oregon – MAX Light Rail, Portland Streetcar
- Sacramento, California – Sacramento Regional Transit District Blue and Gold Lines
- St. Louis, Missouri – St. Louis MetroLink
- Salt Lake City, Utah – UTA TRAX
- San Diego, California – San Diego Trolley
- San Francisco, California – Muni Metro
- San Jose, California – Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
- Seattle, Washington – Sound Transit Central Link, South Lake Union Streetcar
- Tacoma, Washington – Sound Transit Tacoma Link
- Washington, D.C. – Anacostia Streetcar (projected to open in 2012)[19]
Proposed light rail or modern-streetcar systems
- Albany, New York - see Albany Light Rail
- Albuquerque, New Mexico – Albuquerque Rapid Transit Project
- Arlington, Virginia – Columbia Pike Transit Alternative
- Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta Inner Core Transit Feasibility Study, Atlanta Streetcar, Belt Line
- Bangor, Maine – Bangor to Trenton Transportation Alternatives Study
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Baton Rouge Area Transportation Solutions
- Birmingham, Alabama – Birmingham Regional Transportation Alternatives Analysis
- Charleston, South Carolina – Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority
- Charlotte, North Carolina – LYNX Purple Line, Blue Line Extension/Northeast Corridor (LYNX), LYNX Silver Line
- Chicago, Illinois – Chicago Transit Authority
- Cincinnati, Ohio – Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority
- Columbus, Ohio – Central Ohio Transit Authority NOTE: scrapped as of 2006
- Corpus Christi, Texas – Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority
- Detroit, Michigan – Detroit Transit Options for Growth Study [18]
- El Paso, Texas – Sun Metro Area Rapid Transit Line
- Fort Worth, Texas – Fort Worth Transportation Authority
- Grand Canyon, Arizona – Grand Canyon Transit
- Honolulu, Hawaii – Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project
- Huntsville, Alabama[20]
- Jacksonville, Florida – Jacksonville Transportation Authority Transportation Alternatives Study
- Kansas City, Missouri – Heartland Light Rail System
- Louisville, Kentucky – Transportation Tomorrow
- Madison, Wisconsin – Transport 2020
- Miami, Florida – Trafficrelief (People's Transportation Plan)
- Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota – Central Corridor (Minnesota), Southwest Corridor (Minnesota)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Milwaukee County Transit System
- New York, New York – Staten Island Light Rail, vision42
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – downtown modern streetcar network[21]
- Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina – Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority
- Richmond, Virginia – GRTC Transit System
- Rochester, New York – Rochester Rail Transit Committee
- Salt Lake City, Utah – Sugar House Streetcar
- San Antonio, Texas – VIA Metropolitan Transit
- San Bernardino, California – San Bernardino-Redlands light rail
- Spokane, Washington – Spokane Regional Light Rail
- Tampa, Florida – Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (The BARTA)
- Tucson, Arizona – modern-streetcar line[22]
- Washington, D.C. – Purple Line [19]
Heritage streetcar systems
- Austin, Texas – Capitol Metro Circulator System (Proposed to connect key destinations to MetroRail).
- Charlotte, North Carolina – Charlotte Trolley
- Dallas, Texas – McKinney Avenue Transit Authority
- Galveston, Texas – Island Transit (Texas) – Galveston Island Trolley
- Little Rock to North Little Rock, Arkansas – River Rail Streetcar
- Memphis, Tennessee – Memphis Area Transit Authority
- New Orleans, Louisiana – St. Charles Avenue Streetcar
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – SEPTA Route 15 (Girard Avenue Trolley)
- Portland, Oregon – Portland Vintage Trolley, Willamette Shore Trolley
- San Francisco, California – F Market, San Francisco cable car system
- San Pedro, Los Angeles, California – Port of LA Waterfront Red Car Line
- Savannah, Georgia - River Street Streetcar
- Tampa, Florida – TECO Line Streetcar System
- Tucson, Arizona – Old Pueblo Trolley
Caribbean
- Santiago Light Rail - Santiago Light Rail (planning stages)
- San Juan to Caguas – Light interurban rail (planning stages)
South America
- Buenos Aires see Trams in Buenos Aires
- Light-Rail: Tren de la Costa - Tren de la Costa
- Tram: PreMetro
- Historic Heritage Tram: Caballito (tourist operation on weekends), see Buenos Aires Historic Tram
- Tranvía del Este (Puerto Madero Tramway)
- Proposed extension of Puerto Madero Tramway to major rail terminals; Retiro and Constitución
- Proposed Heritage Tram: San Telmo
- Mendoza – Tram-train (Metrotranvía de Mendoza) (under construction)
- Mar del Plata – Heritage Tramway (suspended temporarily)
- Valle Hermoso – Heritage Tramway
- Campinas – Heritage Tram
- Campos do Jordao – Interurban Tramway
- Itatinga – Non-public Tramway
- Rio de Janeiro – The Santa Teresa Historic Tramway
- Santos – Heritage Tramway
- Belém – Heritage Tramway
- Crato - Juazeiro do Norte - Cariri Tram (under construction)
- Lima – Heritage Tram, see Trams in Greater Lima
See also
References
- ^ "Why TEDA-Location and Transportation (See Introduction to the Light Rail section)".
- ^ "Getting Around Changchun".
- ^ "Getting Around Dalian".
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Hong Kong Tramways".
- ^ "MTR Light Rail and Bus Services".
- ^ "Calcutta Tramways".
- ^ "Jerusalem Light Rail Project".
- ^ "NTA Homepage (in Hebrew - English site has not been updated since 2007)". Retrieved 2009-05-29.
- ^ "Metros, subways and light rail in Israel: Haifa". Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ "About the City (mentions tram)".
- ^ "Subways and Trams in Kazakhstan:Almaty".
- ^ "Fukutetsu (Japanese)".
- ^ "Hakodate city tram". Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ "Hiroshima HIRODEN streetcars". Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ "Tashkent Subway".
- ^ http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view/article/2008/01/8062/le_mans_light_rail_takes_off.html
- ^ Sun, Lena H. (April 2, 2009). "Anacostia Streetcar Plan Runs Into Delays". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
- ^ "Developers want to bring light rail system to Huntsville". WAFF (TV). May 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|autho=ignored (help) - ^ Dean, Bryan (November 5, 2008). "Oklahoma City's mass transit overhaul comes with a big price". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
- ^ "Modern Streetcar Facts". Regional Transit Authority (Tucson). Retrieved 2009-08-29.
External links
- North American Light Rail System Maps & Details
- World list of Light Rail, Trams and Metros at Light Rail Transit Association website
- World Rail Transit List