rail systems
Locomotives and tracks
Rail systems are networks of tracks and vehicles designed for transporting passengers or freight.
The term encompasses everything from urban subways and light rail to intercity and transcontinental freight lines.
Rail systems require coordinated infrastructure—tracks, stations, signaling, and rolling stock—operating as integrated wholes: The city invested heavily in its rail system to reduce traffic congestion.
- freight carsWheeled rail containers
- high-speed trainsFast passenger rail vehicles
- bullet trainHigh-velocity passenger locomotive
- maglev trainsMagnetically suspended rail transport
- locomotivesPowered rail vehicles
passenger cars · tracks · dispatching · electrification · scheduling · platforms · depots · train tracks · tunnels · level crossings · gauge · ballast · pantograph · rolling stock · overhead lines · stations · bridges · signaling
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, power grid, roads, seaports
- public transitbus, train, subway, metro, tram
- transitbus, subway, train, metro, buses
- public propertypublic land, public park, public lands, state property, public library
- transportation infrastructurehighways, highway design, road design, road network, metro systems
- critical systemsavionics, flight control, pacemakers, life support, nuclear reactors
rail systemshighways
Major intercity roads
road networks · airways · air travel · aviation · waterways
rail systemstrucking routes
Paths for freight transport
road networks · road systems · highway networks · highway systems · air corridors