rapid transit line

C640
concept

A rapid transit line is a high-capacity, high-frequency urban rail route operating on an exclusive or mostly separated right-of-way to provide fast, reliable public transportation between key areas of a city or metropolitan region.

All labels observed (78)

Label Occurrences
rapid transit line canonical 982
metro line 494
light rail line 275

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: rapid transit line
Generated description
A rapid transit line is a high-capacity, high-frequency urban rail route operating on an exclusive or mostly separated right-of-way to provide fast, reliable public transportation between key areas of a city or metropolitan region.

Instances (1,930)

Instance Via concept surface
Line 12 Tláhuac–Mixcoac corridor metro line
MRT Grey Line
Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya Line Moscow Metro line
MTR Tung Chung Line
Osaka Metro Sennichimae Line
M1 line
A
surface form: A Line (Los Angeles Metro)
light rail line
C
surface form: C Line (Los Angeles Metro)
light rail line
MRT Dark Red Line mass rapid transit line
M2 line
Metro Blue Line light rail line
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
M3 line
U4
U5
M4 line
Shanghai Metro Line 22 planned metro line
BMT West End Line New York City Subway line
Washington Metro Red Line
Ligne 2 Paris Métro line
Line 2 (Beijing Subway) metro line
Line 4 (Beijing Subway)
Airport Express (Beijing Subway)
Line 1
surface form: Line 1 (Beijing Subway)
metro line
Line 13 at Dongzhimen metro line
Braintree branch
BMT Franklin Avenue Line New York City Subway line
Line 5 (Beijing Subway)
Line 10 (Beijing Subway) metro line
Beijing Subway Line 14 (via transfer bus links and area connections)
surface form: Beijing Subway Line 14
Nanchang Metro
surface form: Nanchang Metro Line 1
metro line
Line 1 (Beijing Subway)
E Line (Los Angeles Metro) light rail line
Line 1
surface form: Line 1 (Athens Metro)
Line 2
surface form: Line 2 (Athens Metro)
Line 4 (U-shaped new metro line)
surface form: Line 4 (Athens Metro)
metro line
M1
surface form: M1 (Copenhagen Metro)
metro line
M2
surface form: M2 (Copenhagen Metro)
metro line
M3 metro line
M4 metro line
City Circle Line metro line
Harbour Line metro line
Washington Street Elevated former rapid transit line
Line 3
surface form: Line 3 (Athens Metro)
metro line
B line S-train line
Bx line S-train line
C line
surface form: C line (Copenhagen S-train)
S-train line
H line S-train line
Copenhagen light rail (Ring 3 Letbane, via interchanges)
surface form: Copenhagen light rail (Ring 3 Letbane)
light rail line
C Line (Los Angeles Metro) light rail line