低地板路面电车的发展

中国城市人口大部分都在200万以上，城市周边交通运输一直是交通运输发展瓶颈，而低地板路面电车在发展城市轨道交通方面具有广阔的前景。现介绍低地板路面电车的发展过程及车辆特点，以及世界各国路面电车现状和利用电路面电车发展双系统运输的经验，并介绍路面电车的制造商，以及国内城市轨道交通的发展思路和方法。

General Situation of Low-floor Road Surface Tram Development

The urban populations in China are mostly over 2 million and the traffic and transportation in the vicinity of the cities have always been the bottlenecks in the traffic and transportation development. And the low-floor road surface tram has the broad prospect in the development of the urban rail transit. An introduction is hereby presented for the development process and the features of cars with respect to the low-floor road surface tram as well as the present situation of the road surface tram and the experiences in using the road surface tram to develop the dual-system transportation in different countries of the world. The manufacturers of the road surface tram as well as the thoughts and methods for the domestic urban rail transit development are further introduced for provision of references.