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Trackless trams v light rail? It's not a contest – both can improve our cities

Author: Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University

Yibin is the latest Chinese city to get the Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) system, or trackless trams.来斤小仓鼠吧/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

A Greenpeace video of me plugging a trackless tram that went viral with 4 million hits has caused a few eyebrows to be raised over whether I think light rail is dead. So let...

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