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[[File:Map of Stockholm development between 1930 and 1990.tiff|thumb|right|Evolution of Stockholm as a Transit Metropolis, 1930 to 1990, with urbanization following the [[Stockholm metro|Tunnelbana]] metro line, built in advance of demand to help guide regional growth; Source: R. Cervero, ''The Transit Metropolis'', 1998]]
{{Short description|Regional transit development}}
[[File:Electric railway journal (1911) (14571857689).jpg|thumb|Interurban network in the Midwestern United States in 1911]]
A '''Transit metropolis''' is an urbanized region with high-quality [[public transport]]ation services and settlement patterns that are conducive to riding public transit.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cervero|first1=Robert|authorlink=Robert Cervero|title=The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry|date=1998|publisher=Island Press|location=Washington|isbn=9781559635912}}</ref> While [[Transit village]]s<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bernick|first1=Michael|last2=Cervero|first2=Robert|title=Transit Villages in the 21st Century |date=1997 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=New York|isbn=9780070054752}}</ref> and [[Transit-oriented development]]s (TODs)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Calthorpe|first1=Peter|authorlink=Peter Calthorpe|title=The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream|date=1993|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|location=New York|isbn=9781878271686}}</ref> focus on creating compact, mixed-use neighborhoods around rail stations, transit metropolises represent a regional constellation of TODs that benefit from having both trip origins and destinations oriented to public transport stations. In an effort to reduce mounting traffic congestion problems and improve environmental conditions, a number of Chinese mega-cities, including [[Beijing]] and [[Shenzhen]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cervero|first1=Robert|authorlink=Robert Cervero|title=The Transit Metropolis|date=2007|publisher=Chinese Architecture and Building Press|location=Beijing}}</ref><ref>Transit Metropolis Forum shapes sustainable transport trends for China’s urban future [http://www.wrirosscities.org/news/transit-metropolis-forum-shapes-sustainable-transport-trends-china%E2%80%99s-urban-future]</ref> have embraced the transit metropolis model for guiding urban growth and public-transport investment decisions.
Around the world, mass transit have been struggling to compete with private automobile and in many places its market is eroding. Transit metropolis and [[Transit-oriented development|TOD]] are among the planning strategies being introduced to help reserve ridership losses and advance more sustainable patterns of urban development.
Transit metropolises recognize that one or two [[Transit-oriented development|TODs]] as islands in a sea of automobile-oriented development (AOD) will do little to get people out of cars and into trains and buses. Only when [[Transit-oriented development|TODs]] are organized along linear corridors, as in [[Stockholm]], [[Copenhagen]] and [[Curitiba]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Suzuki|first1=Hiroaki|last2=Cervero|first2=Robert|last3=Iuchi|first3=Kanako|title=Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development|date=2013|publisher=World Bank|location=Washington|isbn=9780821397459}}</ref> or inter-connected by high-capacity transit at a regional scale can they significantly reduce car-dependence and improve environmental conditions.
== See also ==
* [[Commuter town]]
* [[New Urbanism]]
* [[Smart growth]]
* [[Streetcar suburb]]
*{{Annotated link|Sustainable Development Goal 11}}
* [[Transit-oriented development]]
* [[Transit village]]
==References==
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[[Category:Public transport]]
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