IntegrationofRailSystemswithinAMetropolis都市域轨道系统整合.pdfVIP

ICCTP 2010: Integrated Transportation Systems— Green•Intelligent•Reliable © 2010 ASCE Integration of Rail Systems within A Metropolis: A Case Study of Wuxi City 1 2 3 Xuesong ZHANG , Dawei BIAN and Min CHEN 1Wuxi Urban Planning Research Center, Wuxi, P.R. China; postcode: 214031; Phone: (0086 e-mail: xuesong3000@ 2Wuxi Urban Planning Research Center, Wuxi, P.R. China; postcode: 214031; Phone: (0086 e-mail: erwai0518@ 3School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China; postcode: 201804; e-mail: emailchenmin@ ABSTRACT Railway is regarded as a preferred service reducing the increasing urban traffic congestion and restraining urban sprawl as a public transport mode of high capacity, and therefore is widely adopted. Some of the Chinese metropolises have built the rail systems including high-speed rail, intercity rail, conventional rail, metro, light rail, etc. Integrating the coexisting rail systems is necessary to avoid internal competition and to attract new transit riders. The paper applies comparison and analysis to distinguish the suited service targets of each rail. The correlation between the designed travel speed and the station spacing of the popular rails in a metropolis is analyzed also to identify what demand each may meet. While metro and light-rails mainly serve the urban riders, high-speed and intercity rails carry long-trip travel passengers. There is a lack of rail services for medium-trips as the conventional rail can