[Talk-us] [openrailwaymap] Self organised session at SotM about Railway tagging in the US tomorrow

[Natfoot]

Thanks for attending everyone. Real useful and look forward to working with
you in the future.

Best Regards,
Nathan P
email: natfoot at gmail.com


On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:16 PM Steve All <steveall at softworkers.com> wrote:

> Thank you for everybody's participation today, I enjoyed "meeting" or
> "seeing" you (again), even if it was "hearing" you only!
>
> I mentioned an article which classifies light-rail tram-trains into FOUR
> categories (not three) in an interesting way:
>
> https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/31/what-is-light-rail-anyway
>
> The gist of the logic for doing this comes from this introduced table of
> classifications based upon speed of travel in both the center and outlying
> areas of the line in question:
>
>                                         Slow in center          Fast in
> center
> Slow in outlying areas  Tramway                 Subway-surface
> Fast in outlying areas  Tram-train              Rapid transit
>
> (I hope those tabs work for your email display).
>
> Interesting article, VERY interesting (and lively — 68 Comments!) Comments
> Section.  Enjoy.
>
> Steve
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