New Delhi: With 160 kmph speed, the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), will be the fastest Metro service in the country. The authorities have recently conducted a high-speed run on the stretch and the Alstom-made trains attained a maximum speed of 160 kmph.
The Shanghai Metro is the world's longest metro network at 803 kilometres (499 mi) and has the highest annual ridership at 2.83 billion trips. The New York City Subway has the greatest number of stations with 472. As of 2023, the country with the most metro systems is China, with 45 in operation.
Rapid transits in India consist of Metro, Monorails and light rail system. The first rapid transits system in India was Kolkata Metro, which started operations i 1984. 'Elattuvalapil Sreedharan', popularly known as Metro Man was behind this great effort.
THE world's fastest metro system train is the Maglev or Transrapid which runs by way of magnetic levitation on the Longyang Road to Pudong International Airport line of the Shanghai Metro in China.
The Seoul Subway in South Korea topped the list. The overall ranking takes into account every element of our study - so that includes the number of stations with step-free access, the price of a ticket and the age of the system (amongst many others).