Night Trains

An Alternative to European Flights?

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  • Thu 08 October 2020
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Änderungsvorschläge für SEM München Nord-Ost

Optimierung der Verkehrssituation für das Neubaugebiet München Nord-Ost Im Frühjahr 2020 hat München einen Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben, das geplante Neubaugebiet im Nordosten der Stadt zu entwerfen. Den ersten Preis gewann der Entwurf von rheinflügel severin (Düsseldorf) und bbz landschaftsarchitekten berlin gmbh bdla (Berlin). Quelle Auch mir gefällt dieser Vorschlag ziemlich gut …

  • Wed 16 September 2020
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Already Possible Lists

The following sortable table contains the links that have valid standard gauge connections between each other with a duration: 360 \<= t \<= 600 Origin Destination Passengers Beeline [m] t flight (min) t rail (min) avg v rail (km/h) Rail stations passed 27 LBSF:Sofia LBWN:Varna 56055 364935 57 446 …

  • Sun 23 February 2020
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Passenger Travel Time Improvements

In this post, I want to analyze, the individual benefit of increasing the travel time on a specific link to bee-line 900 km/h if it isn't already. Note that the actual average speed on high speed lines will be considerably higher but a train can't always go straight... Below …

Rail + Fly

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 …

  • Sat 01 February 2020
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Passenger Load on Links

In this post, I want to analyze, what passenger load would be on links of the network, if all flights (up to a certain duration) were operated as train lines.