城市轨道交通的诞生和发展已有一百多年历史,但重视和大规模修建城市轨道交通系统则是在第二次世界大战结束以后。在中国经济社会快速发展的今天,城市轨道交通建设也在全国各大城市如火如荼地开展。一般人对城市轨道交通系统接触较少,在一些概念上存在误区。有人认为城市轨道交通中,在地面以下行驶的叫地铁,在 The birth and development of urban rail transit have been more than one hundred years old, but the importance and large-scale construction of the urban rail transit system came after the end of World War II. In today’s rapid economic and social development in China, urban rail transit construction is also in full swing in major cities across the country. Most people have less contact with the urban rail transit system, and there are some misunderstandings in some concepts. Some people think that in urban rail transit, the subway that runs under the ground is called