Local transport is provided by a Stadtbahn ( light rail ), which also features two lines to Cologne.

Some heavy metro infrastructures were built in Brussels, Antwerp and the Charleroi area, but these are currently used by light rail vehicles, and their conversion to full metro is not envisaged at present due to lack of funds.

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

Most commuter ( or suburban ) trains are built to main line rail standards, differing from light rail or rapid transit ( metro rail ) systems by:

Some light rail systems may run on a narrower gauge.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

The Luas is a two-line light rail or tram network which has been operated in Dublin by Veolia Transport since 2004.

The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

In spite of the closure of most of France's tram systems in earlier years, a fast growing number of France's major cities have modern tram or light rail networks, including Paris, Lyon ( Lyon having the biggest one ), Toulouse, Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Strasbourg and Nantes.

The following French towns and cities run light rail or tram systems:

A larger number of cities has upgraded their tramways to light rail standards.

There are all together ten lines in the MTR system, with a total of 83 railway stations and 68 light rail stops.

Recently though there has been a push from the city, and increasingly from government, to establish a light rail network, intended to be fast, efficient, and eco-friendly, along existing tracks in a North South corridor ; to help relieve the frequent jamming of traffic in Hobart CBD.

The Hayling Billy Trail is a former light rail right-of-way which has been converted to one of many footpaths on the island.

In 2004 a light rail system, Luas, was opened in Dublin serving the central and western suburbs, run by Veolia under franchise from the Railway Procurement Agency.

There are also plans for a light rail system operating between Amman and Zarqa and a funicular and metro line in Amman.

**-The Public Transport Regulatory Commission has entered into an agreement with a private sector consortium, following a competitive bidding process, to develop a light rail system between the Jordanian capital Amman and nearby industrial city of Zarqa.

This light rail project, to be operational by 2011, will be the first urban rail public-private partnership ( PPP ) in the Middle East.

A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.

Relative incident light intensities were measured with a thermopile potentiometer system.

Both shudder at the thought of proceeding too far beyond the sewage system and the electric light lines.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

In an imaging system, it occurs when light from one point of an object does not converge into ( or does not diverge from ) a single point after transmission through the system.

Aberrations occur because the simple paraxial theory is not a completely accurate model of the effect of an optical system on light, rather than due to flaws in the optical elements.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

That said, there will still be competitors who " crack " the system when the legal barriers are light, especially where the old guard has become inefficient and is failing to meet the needs of the market.

Cable television is a system of distributing television programs to subscribers via radio frequency ( RF ) signals transmitted through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through hybrid fibre coaxial ( HFC ) networks.

Instead, this effort evolved into the SAGE system for the US Air Force, which used large screens and light guns to allow operators to interact with radar data stored in the computer.

The analysis of this system is simplified if we consider light of a single wavelength.

The most historically significant nonlinear compositing system was the Cineon, which operated in a logarithmic color space, which more closely mimics the natural light response of film emulsions ( the Cineon system, made by Kodak, is no longer in production ).

The Small Deep Space Transponder ( SDST ) is a compact and light weight radio communications system.

As a consequence, the square of the speed of light appears explicitly in some of the equations interrelating quantities in this system.

In particle physics, a system of " natural units " in which the speed of light in a vacuum c and the reduced Planck constant ħ are dimensionless and equal to unity is widely used:.

In this way, the laser light can pass through the system without harming healthy tissue, and only diseased cells, where the nanoparticles reside, get hot and are killed.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

All he had to do was light the fuses of the dynamite sticks, run to within ten yards of an open window in the barn and hurl the sticks through.

Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

Outside the office windows, twenty-four stories above Wall Street, a light rain was falling.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

The drizzle was slacking off now, but the light was grayer.

The apex, the study where Eugene slept, was light and bright and airy and cheerful.

He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.

It was full-of-the-moon ( or a little past ), and nearly light as day.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

The light was filtered by the soft glass window of the thermostat thus ensuring that only light absorbed by the chlorine and not by the carbon tetrachloride could enter the reaction cell.