Unit 1 History of Urban Rail Transit Text A The First Underground Railways Text B Light Rail and Its History Unit 2 China’s Urban Rail Transit Text A More Cities to Embrace Urban Rail Transit Text B A Retrospection on the Construction of the Beijing Subway Unit 3 Transit.Oriented Development Text A How to Make Transit—Oriented Development Work Text B Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub,the World’S Most Complex. Unit 4 Rail Transport Vehicles Text A Maglev:The New Mode of Transport fOr the 21 st Century Text B How Magnetic Levitation Can Revolutionize World Transportation Unit 5 Control and Communication Text A Development of Signal System for Urban Rail Transit Text B Communication—Based Train Control System Unit 6 Benefits&Challenges of Urban Rail Transit Text A All Aboard for Light Rail Text B Light Rail———the Solution to Inner—City Chaos? Unit 7 Urban Rail Transit and City Development Text A Next Stop.Antiquity Station Text B Take the A Train(or the F,the Q,the 1,the 7 Unit 8 Safety System of Urban Rail Transit Text A Urban Rail Safety:Lessons from the U.S Text B City Is Asked to Rethink Rail Stations Deep Underground Unit 9 Green Urban Transport Text A Hydrail—The Green Transport Solution We’ve A11 Been Waiting for? Text B Noise Emission of Light—Rail Vehicles—State of the Art Unit 10 The Future of Urban Transit Text A The Future of Urban Transportation Is in Electric Mobility Text B Back to the Future: Top Trends in Subway and Railway Station Design Key Glossary References