Here, I will filter down the 8834 flight connections that are downloaded from the EU database. But those also contain flight connections to other continents that are not relevant here. Those are split up into all inter-european flights all flights within the European Economic Area (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Croatia …

The question of this project is to find out what flight routes within Europe could actually be replaced by trains. For this high-speed day trains as well as ultra long distance night trains are being considered. The Passenger Data that is the foundation of this analysis is provided by the …

Data Sources The objective is to calculate the possible travel time between any two stations of the railway network. Several websites, such as Deutsche Bahn or Rio2Rome offer point-to-point connection data between stations. But this includes waiting times at central nodes + the time for intermediate stops. Here we consider an …