《城市轨道交通英语阅读教程（卓越工程师大学英语阅读系列教材）》编著者胡平。
本套系列教材包括《城市轨道交通英语阅读教程》、《民用航空英语阅读教程》和《汽车工程英语阅读教程》。本教材在选材上注重新颖性、前瞻性和科学性。材料主要选自学术期刊、网站、学术著作和科普书籍和英文报纸。内容既典型，又新颖。此外，教材也体现了相应的学科特点，比如《城市轨道交通英语阅读教程》包括城市轨道交通的历史、城市轨道交通工具、城市轨道交通安全、城市轨道交通的可持续发展与城市交通战略、城市轨道交通信号系统、城市轨道交通的未来等内容。《民用航空英语阅读教程》包含民用航空的历史、地勤、机务、商务、空中交通管制、飞行安全、民航业面临的内外竞争以及未来的发展趋势等内容。《汽车工程英语阅读教程》包括汽车发展的历史、汽车基本构造、汽车各主要系统的原理以及汽车未来发展的展望等。本套教程既可以作为大学英语拓展课程教材，也可以作为相关专业大三、大四学生的专业英语教材。
Unit 1 History of Urban Rail Transit
Text A The First Underground Railways
Text B Light Rail and Its History
Unit 2 China’s Urban Rail Transit
Text A More Cities to Embrace Urban Rail Transit
Text B A Retrospection on the Construction of the Beijing Subway
Unit 3 Transit．Oriented Development
Text A How to Make Transit—Oriented Development Work
Text B Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub，the World’S Most Complex ．
Unit 4 Rail Transport Vehicles
Text A Maglev：The New Mode of Transport fOr the 21 st Century
Text B How Magnetic Levitation Can Revolutionize World Transportation
Unit 5 Control and Communication
Text A Development of Signal System for Urban Rail Transit
Text B Communication—Based Train Control System
Unit 6 Benefits&Challenges of Urban Rail Transit
Text A All Aboard for Light Rail
Text B Light Rail———the Solution to Inner—City Chaos?
Unit 7 Urban Rail Transit and City Development
Text A Next Stop．Antiquity Station
Text B Take the A Train(or the F，the Q，the 1，the 7
Unit 8 Safety System of Urban Rail Transit
Text A Urban Rail Safety：Lessons from the U．S
Text B City Is Asked to Rethink Rail Stations Deep Underground
Unit 9 Green Urban Transport
Text A Hydrail—The Green Transport Solution We’ve A11 Been Waiting for?
Text B Noise Emission of Light—Rail Vehicles—State of the Art
Unit 10 The Future of Urban Transit
Text A The Future of Urban Transportation Is in Electric Mobility
Text B Back to the Future: Top Trends in Subway and Railway Station Design
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