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Metro most often refers to:Metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetroA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Time-varying and non-linear associations between metro ridership and the built environmentInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: NeverwhereThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Metro: Measuring Error on Simplified SurfacesCited 1,197 times
- Go sideways: ExtraA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MetropolitanA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
Noun An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems.
Noun A metropolitan area.
Adjective metropolitan
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Metro: Measuring Error on Simplified Surfaces
Long-term settlement behaviour of metro tunnels in the soft deposits of Shanghai
Deep learning based image recognition for crack and leakage defects of metro shield tunnel
Forecasting the short-term metro passenger flow with empirical mode decomposition and neural networks
Flood risk assessment in metro systems of mega-cities using a GIS-based modeling approach
DeepPF: A deep learning based architecture for metro passenger flow prediction
The complexity and robustness of metro networks
Assessment of the status of municipal solid waste management in metro cities, state capitals, class I cities, and class II towns in India: An insight
🆕 Influential since 2022
Time-varying and non-linear associations between metro ridership and the built environment
Physical-Virtual Collaboration Modeling for Intra- and Inter-Station Metro Ridership Prediction
Metro systems and urban development: Impacts and implications
COVID-19 effects on property markets: The pandemic decreases the implicit price of metro accessibility
Joint optimization of carriage arrangement and flow control in a metro-based underground logistics system
📚 Books worth reading
NeverwhereNeil Gaiman · 1996
Il Fantasma del MetròElisabetta Dami · 2000
The MGM storyJohn Douglas Eames · 1975
Metro owners workshop manualA. K. Legg · 1984
Merchant of dreamsCharles Higham · 1993
The Best of MgmElizabeth Miles Montgomery · 1986
The MGM stock companyJames Robert Parish · 1972
Fade outPeter Bart · 1990
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