Sentence examples for high-speed metro from inspiring English sources

A high-speed metro line opened in 1976, and a new fast rail link to Schiphol entered service in 1988, but trams remain the principal means of transportation in inner Amsterdam, while buses are important in outer districts.

OpenTrack is a specific rail modelling system, allowing for analysis of many different modes of transport including high-speed rail, metro systems, heavy haul freight and other track-based modes.

Trains, of both the high-speed and metro type, are running through the film.

Alstom's transport divisions – which in Britain includes the supply and maintenance of Virgin's Pendolino trains and parts of the London Underground fleet – have been winning high-speed rail and metro contracts worldwide.

In the span of just five years, the Sevillanos have instituted a community bike-sharing scheme, a surface tram, an underground metro, two high-speed train links, a pilot electric car programme and -- 20km away in Sanlúcar la Mayor -- the first commercial solar power plant in Europe.

Thailand is looking to build new metro and high-speed railway lines to connect up the country's burgeoning urban population.

Besides construction and operation of Delhi Metro, DMRC is also involved in the planning and implementation of metro rail, monorail and high-speed rail projects in India and providing consultancy services to other metro projects in the country as well as abroad.

American manufacturers have little experience with metros and high-speed trains, and most Asian rivals lack the necessary foreign-sales know-how.

Leaders of the Gulf Co-operation Council agreed on plans for a great railway bazaar from Jordan to Oman earlier this month, though it may be two decades before their ambitious scheme is fully realised.European companies are expected to be in the vanguard of the building work, thanks to their experience with both metros and high-speed systems.

In recent years, China has spent several trillion yuan to construct inter-city high-speed rails and to expand metro-systems or undergrounds in major cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, etc. [3, 9] According to the official Xinhua News Agency [10], China invested 745.5 billion yuan (USD115 billion) in building railways in 2011 alone.

Infrastructure spending is also colossal, particularly on a vast network of metro systems and high-speed trains, in an attempt to wean the newly created middle class from their cars in order to alleviate the drastic pollution.