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Energy Power. Services Advertising. Everything you wanted to know about bullet trains. Read more on Bullet Train. Browse Companies:. To see your saved stories, click on link hightlighted in bold. In addition, other sources indicate that some countries have HSR systems in place even though UIC has indicated that they do not.
Economic Viability. Analysts have suggested that some countries may have over-extended their HSR networks, claiming that revenues and profit margins have fallen, and cheap flights and car-sharing services may draw some customers away from rail options. The facts, however, seem to belie these warnings. In China, HSR lines have proven their profitability, and throughout Asia and Europe, HSR is providing a lower cost and shorter travel time alternative to air travel for many of the shorter routes.
Advocates argue that by increasing the number of cities that have HSR hubs, the network effect will geometrically multiply the utility of HSR to travelers, and hence will provide long-term economic and lifestyle benefits for all citizens.
It is not clear whether developing HSR between some U. The HSR deployments in California will be watched closely by government and business leaders in other U. Despite the increases in projected costs, support for high-speed rail among Californians remains high.
Competition with other technologies. Technologies such as magnetic levitation maglev and hyperloop are promising ever faster rail speeds.
The line covers 30 km 19 miles in seven minutes. China is currently one of only three countries along with Japan and South Korea that operate a maglev train. Hyperloop systems, which involve propelling trains through sealed tubes that have been emptied of as much air as possible to reduce air resistance, are still on the drawing board. Maglev and hyperloop systems both require the construction of all new rail lines, which calls into question further investment in more conventional HSR technologies.
Nevertheless, advocates point out that HSR is a mature technology, unlike these other rail transport schemes, and so is a much lower risk investment for governments and urban planners. Both maglev and hyperloop are very costly, and pose potential health and safety risks that conventional HSR does not. HSR advocates further argue that the throughput in terms of numbers of people moved from place to place for a given investment provided by high-speed rail far outpaces those provided by highways or airports.
In the chart to the left, the US High Speed Rail Association depicts how high-speed rail offers significant time savings compared with flying or driving between downtown San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles in California.
Transportation benefits. Many would argue that economic development should not be the main measure of a transportation system, but that its ability to move people and goods should be the primary consideration.
The Texas train, by the way, will be an NI model — the "I" stands for international. While the bullet train still seems as far away as Japan, the groundbreaking for the Texas line is scheduled to get underway in Texas Central, the group leading the project, has options to purchase a third of the land needed for the Dallas-to-Houston line.
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