RER

See also: rer

English

Etymology

From French RER, often reinterpreted as "Regional Express Rail".

Noun

RER (plural RERs)

1. A type of railway system that generally runs from suburbs or satellite towns into a city centre, with a central tunnel or overground corridor with higher speeds and more widely spread stations than a subway or metro.
   • 1991, Working Paper:

      […] the recently approved Crossrail link, together with the existing Thameslink, constitute the basis of an RER for London, which by the end of this decade will provide a single system, linking Reading with Colchester and Cambridge […]

   • 2021 November 10, “A path to high-speed rail in Chicago—through a reinvented Metra”, in Chicago Business‎^[1]:

     Reinvented according to this model—called regional express rail (RER)—Metra's key hubs would be O'Hare Airport, the Loop, and McCormick Place.

Proper noun

RER (plural RERs)

1. Any of many RER systems in French-speaking countries.
2. GO Expansion, a project to improve commuter rail in Ontario.
   • 2020 September 8, Mark Ovenden, Underground Cities: Mapping the tunnels, transits and networks underneath our feet, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, page 42:

     GO Transit also uses some tunnels in the city. Its Metrolinx RER programme includes laying 150km (93 miles) of new track, and some of this, for example under Highways 401 and 409, will be in tunnel.

French

Etymology

Réseau Express Régional (Regional Express Network)

Proper noun

RER m

1. Initialism of Réseau Express Régional., a Parisian tram, train and bus system

Noun

RER m (plural RERs)

1. A commuter rail or overground system, especially one with relatively high speeds and widely-spaced stations in urban areas.
2. (Switzerland) Conventional translation of German S-Bahn in German-speaking regions of Switzerland, regardless of whether a system would otherwise be classed as an RER.