Top 100 Longest Metro (Subway) Systems Comparison (2019)

[beijingwalker]

Top 100 Longest Metro (Subway) Systems Comparison (2019)

Can't believe Beijing is still Number 2, every year Beijing has many new subway lines opened, Beijing is much bigger than Shanghai in area, it's only a matter of time that Beijing's subway length overtakes Shanghai's and become No.1 in the world.

 

[Georg]

The Guangzhou Metro is build by 76 tunnel drilling mashines from Herrenknecht they have already 400km in service and get 888km till 2023

https://www.herrenknecht.com/de/referenzen/referenzendetail/metro-guangzhou/

 

[beijingwalker]

The Guangzhou Metro is build by 76 tunnel drilling mashines from Herrenknecht they have already 400km in service and get 888km till 2023

https://www.herrenknecht.com/de/referenzen/referenzendetail/metro-guangzhou/

China also exports boring machines to Europe to help them build subways

 

[Georg]

China also exports boring machines to Europe to help them build subways

Herrenknecht has brought the tunnelboring technology to China... they run 9 factorys there producing tunnel boring mashines... the design you show in the video is 100% Herrenknecht Technology... and btw... your "chinese made" is labled at the button with Hoch Tief and Wirth... does not sound very chineses but very german
Herrenknecht is by far world market and technology leader in tunnel boring...currently they run 850 tunnel boring mashines for 96 street tunnel projects around the world at the same time, they have 875 Metro tunnel project currently with more than 1910km Metro tunnel length in total.
They drill more than 380km a year for piplines around the world...
They have drilled the longest railway tunnel in the world...

They build many of the chinese Metro systems

 

[vostok]

London metro is 5 km longer than Moscow! That is not right.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

London metro is 5 km longer than Moscow! That is not right.

Why? Did you pace them?

 

[Mista]

London metro is 5 km longer than Moscow! That is not right.

Different definitions such as city boundaries or systems probably.

For example no way Tokyo is ranked so low at 20th.

Public transport within Greater Tokyo is dominated by the world's most extensive urban rail network (as of May 2014, the article Tokyo rail list lists 158 lines, 48 operators, 4,714.5 km of operational track and 2,210 stations [although stations recounted for each operator]) of suburban trains and subways run by a variety of operators.

In the video, they counted only 1 operator operating in the Tokyo 23 wards (the core 'cities' in Greater Tokyo, in a combined area only half of Hong Kong). The 23 wards, although the most important core, make up less than 5% of Greater Tokyo's area. It's a bit like Manhattan in New York metropolitan area.

That's obviously an inaccurate comparison to a city say Beijing, which has an area larger than the entire Greater Tokyo.

 

[beijingwalker]

Herrenknecht has brought the tunnelboring technology to China... they run 9 factorys there producing tunnel boring mashines... the design you show in the video is 100% Herrenknecht Technology... and btw... your "chinese made" is labled at the button with Hoch Tief and Wirth... does not sound very chineses but very german
Herrenknecht is by far world market and technology leader in tunnel boring...currently they run 850 tunnel boring mashines for 96 street tunnel projects around the world at the same time, they have 875 Metro tunnel project currently with more than 1910km Metro tunnel length in total.
They drill more than 380km a year for piplines around the world...
They have drilled the longest railway tunnel in the world...

They build many of the chinese Metro systems

You can make your claims, but Chinese boring machines make most tunnels in the world and also export to other countries.

List of countries by total road tunnel length
Rank Country Total length (km) Number of tunnels Year

Different definitions such as city boundaries or systems probably.

For example no way Tokyo is ranked so low at 20th.

In the video, they counted only 1 operator operating in the Tokyo 23 wards (the core 'cities' in Greater Tokyo, in a combined area only half of Hong Kong). The 23 wards, although the most important core, make up less than 5% of Greater Tokyo's area. It's a bit like Manhattan in New York metropolitan area.

That's obviously an inaccurate comparison to a city say Beijing, which has an area larger than the entire Greater Tokyo.

They must have a standard in gauging them, but that doesn't matter much, with the crazy speed of subway building boom all across all cities in China, soon most top subway network cities will be from China. Remember, Shanghai didn't have an inch of subway until 1990's.

 

[Mista]

They must have a standard in gauging them

No they don't. That's because city boundaries definition differs from country to country, especially for China vis-a-vis to the rest of the world. And even within countries the definition differs. The administrative 'city' of Beijing or Chongqing includes large rural and suburb areas, while cities like NY or Tokyo are 100% urbanized. Taking just the urban core of Beijing, with a more similar land area and population, would be a more accurate comparison.

Land area
Chongqing: 82,403 km2
Beijing: 16,411 km2
Shanghai: 6,341 km2

Hong Kong: 1,108 km2
NYC: 784 km2
Tokyo 23 wards: 619 km2
Beijing 5th ring road: 667 km2

 

[beijingwalker]

Beijing 5th ring road: 667 km2

Beijing 6th road is also very urbanized and most new housing development is also in this region. 30 years ago, outside 2nd ring was all farmland.

 

[Mista]

Beijing 6th road is also very urbanized and most new housing development is also in this region. 30 years ago, outside 2nd ring was all farmland.

The same can said for Tokyo. Chiba and Yokohama are extremely developed too and they are joined together with Tokyo, but traditionally they are not considered a part of Tokyo.

China just have a different definition of a city from other countries because most Chinese cities include suburbs and rural area. And even within China definitions differ. Like, is Chongqing really larger than Shanghai? NYC/Tokyo 20x smaller than Beijing?

 

[beijingwalker]

The same can said for Tokyo. Chiba and Yokohama are extremely developed too and they are joined together with Tokyo, but traditionally they are not considered a part of Tokyo.

China just have a different definition of a city from other countries because most Chinese cities include suburbs and rural area. And even within China definitions differ. Like, is Chongqing really larger than Shanghai? NYC/Tokyo 20x smaller than Beijing?

Beijing is developing many new regions and even moved city government to Tongzhou, central government is also about being moved out along with many industries and government departments of all levels, those regions are being connected by expressways , commuter trains and subways. Beijing is indeed bigger than Shanghai, but in population Shanghai and Chongqing are bigger than Beijing.

 

[Mista]

 

[beijingwalker]

With the neckbreaking expansion of many Chinese cities, this one can be overtaken much sooner than you know.

 

[Mista]

With the neckbreaking expansion of many Chinese cities, this one can be overtaken much sooner than you know.

lol ok. You mad?