Editing Rail transport (section)

====Transportation====
Railways contribute to social vibrancy and economic competitiveness by transporting multitudes of customers and workers to [[city centre]]s and [[inner suburbs]]. [[Hong Kong]] has recognized rail as "the backbone of the [[public transit system]]" and as such developed their franchised bus system and road infrastructure in comprehensive alignment with their rail services.<ref>Hong Kong Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Hong Kong 2009</ref> China's large cities such as [[Beijing]], [[Shanghai]], and [[Guangzhou]] recognize rail transit lines as the framework and bus lines as the main body to their metropolitan transportation systems.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1109/ITSC.2010.5625187 |chapter=Effect of integrated multi-modal transit information on modal shift |title=13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems |year=2010 |last1=Hu |first1=Hua |last2=Gao |first2=Yun-Feng |last3=Liu |first3=Zhi-Gang |last4=Yang |first4=Xiao-Guang |pages=1753–1757 |isbn=978-1-4244-7657-2 |s2cid=38806085 }}</ref> The Japanese [[Shinkansen]] was built to meet the growing traffic demand in the "heart of Japan's industry and economy" situated on the [[Tokyo]]-[[Kobe]] line.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Straszak |first1=A. |title=The Shinkansen High-Speed Rail Network of Japan: Proceedings of an IIASA Conference, June 27–30, 1977 |date=1977 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-1-4831-8916-1 }}{{page needed|date=October 2020}}</ref>