Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Throughout the world there are many tram systems; some dating from the late 19th or early 20th centuries. However a large number of the old systems were closed during the mid-20th century because of the rise in power of auto-makers and the hydrocarbon extraction industry. This was especially the case in North American. Other reasons are given the decline of British, French and other West European cities LRT systems; some argue that the systems declined because of perceived drawbacks as route inflexibility and maintenance expense. Some traditional tram systems did however survive and remain operating much as when first built over a century ago. In the past twenty years their numbers have been augmented by modern tramway or light rail systems in cities that had discarded this form of transport."@en }
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- Tram_and_light_rail_transit_systems abstract "Throughout the world there are many tram systems; some dating from the late 19th or early 20th centuries. However a large number of the old systems were closed during the mid-20th century because of the rise in power of auto-makers and the hydrocarbon extraction industry. This was especially the case in North American. Other reasons are given the decline of British, French and other West European cities LRT systems; some argue that the systems declined because of perceived drawbacks as route inflexibility and maintenance expense. Some traditional tram systems did however survive and remain operating much as when first built over a century ago. In the past twenty years their numbers have been augmented by modern tramway or light rail systems in cities that had discarded this form of transport.".
- Q16000369 abstract "Throughout the world there are many tram systems; some dating from the late 19th or early 20th centuries. However a large number of the old systems were closed during the mid-20th century because of the rise in power of auto-makers and the hydrocarbon extraction industry. This was especially the case in North American. Other reasons are given the decline of British, French and other West European cities LRT systems; some argue that the systems declined because of perceived drawbacks as route inflexibility and maintenance expense. Some traditional tram systems did however survive and remain operating much as when first built over a century ago. In the past twenty years their numbers have been augmented by modern tramway or light rail systems in cities that had discarded this form of transport.".