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TBM: Tunnel Boring Machine, the main piece of equipment in building deep tunnels
cut-and-cover: a way of building tunnels that consists of building a trench and then putting a roof over it
fixed-guideway: basically, anything that's a railroad or has similar constraints (such as a monorail)
switch fouling: fouling a switch means to have a train over it so that you can't change which direction it goes to
headway: time between successive consists. 5min headway means one train arrives every 5 minutes
consist: a set of cars that all move together as a fixed unit
I think that's all the terms that people might not immediately understand.
TBM: Tunnel Boring Machine, the main piece of equipment in building deep tunnels
cut-and-cover: a way of building tunnels that consists of building a trench and then putting a roof over it
fixed-guideway: basically, anything that's a railroad or has similar constraints (such as a monorail)
switch fouling: fouling a switch means to have a train over it so that you can't change which direction it goes to
headway: time between successive consists. 5min headway means one train arrives every 5 minutes
consist: a set of cars that all move together as a fixed unit
I think that's all the terms that people might not immediately understand.