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Originally Posted by SOSS
All terms are correctly listed. Within the context of this thread and within Vancouver, one could say:
BRT = frequent buses with limited stops. They should be in dedicated lanes but are not locally.
LRT are light rail trains (as apposed to heavy rail like West Coast Express) that are operated by people (Portland, Calgary, Edmonton and Surrey's current preferred technology). LRT does not necessarily mean at grade or not. There can be pedestrian and vehicle conflict points but not necessarily.
RRT is automated light rail trains like Skytrain and Canada Line that run in dedicated tracks that do not conflict with pedestrians or vehicles.
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More like, within the context of Translink's documents.
Only Toronto and Vancouver use this terminology, as these are the only two places in the world that have "
Skytrain" as vernacular for an elevated subway/metro. We don't have monorails, and people outside of Canada tend to refer to elevated guideways as Monorails, even if they aren't.
Using Bombardier's terminology we see something else:
http://www.cifi.it/UplDocumenti/torino12/08%201%20Claudio%20Tavella%20BOMBARDIER.pdf
Note that everything on that list has been refereed to as Light Rail at some point. Note that the Innovia Metro (Skytrain) and Flexity LRT do not even overlap.