Sustainable City Development & Asian Urban Railways
Feature Urban Railways in Asia Sustainable City Development & Asian Urban Railways Toshiji Takatsu First, there are many definitions of what climates, geography, peoples, history, Introduction constitutes ‘Asia,’ but in this article, we religions and cultures. The political mean everything eastward from Iran systems across Asia range from socialist Unfortunately, many parts of Asia have (including Turkey) and the Pacific islands to liberal democratic and the economies long suffered from economic poverty as defined by the United Nations, range from developed to newly coupled with severe traffic congestion. Economic and Social Commission for Asia industrializing and underdeveloped. However, despite the 1997 Asian and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Additionally, Following the Asian Financial Crisis of Financial Crisis, Asia saw a massive we define urban railway transport systems 1997, the Newly Industrialized explosion of prolonged economic growth to include mainly wheel-and-rail based Economies (NIEs) of formerly low-income for most of the 1990s. These economic subways and urban high-speed railways as agricultural economies like S. Korea, developments changed the industrial well as light rail systems such as monorails, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc., as landscape of the region with increasing automated guideway transit (AGT) systems well as the other ASEAN members of urbanization resulting from rising income and light rail transit (LRT) systems. Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, levels and population growth. Many of Indonesia, Viet Nam, Cambodia,
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