What kind of vehicle is longer than a train?
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The vehicle longer than a train is "traffic congestion." While trains are composed of multiple connected carriages, during traffic jams, numerous vehicles gather together forming an extremely long queue that undoubtedly surpasses the length of a train. Here are the reasons behind traffic congestion: 1. Unreasonable urban planning: The separation of workplaces and residences is the primary cause of congestion. Beijing exemplifies the "pancake-style" urban expansion model, with the city expanding outward layer by layer, resulting in many people living in suburban areas but working downtown. During morning rush hours, people commute toward the city center, while during evening rush hours, they all head back to the suburbs. 2. Unscientific road design: Fan Li, a renowned expert in driver training and safe driving behavior research in China, pointed out that Beijing's ring road system wasn't designed to handle such high traffic volumes, with many unreasonable entrance and exit designs. Most on-ramps and off-ramps are located close together, often causing congestion. 3. Unsatisfactory public transportation: Issues include overlapping bus routes without proper integration, and route designs that aren't scientifically optimized. Citizens spend excessive time waiting for and transferring between buses, sometimes needing to walk 1-2 kilometers to reach a station. Many people lack comprehensive traffic awareness. 4. Increasing number of private vehicles: Some predict that China's vehicle ownership will exceed 100 million by 2020. Ouyang Minggao, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of Tsinghua University's State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, noted that currently 70% of vehicles on the road are private cars, with 70% of these carrying only one driver during peak hours. These vehicles occupy 50% of traffic resources while transporting less than 5% of commuters, representing significant waste of both limited road resources and natural resources. 5. Lack of "traffic ethics": Statistics from China and abroad show that while drivers abroad encounter about 100 dangerous situations daily, Chinese drivers face about 150. Among these, 95% of dangerous situations are caused by traffic violations.
