Passenger Travel Time Improvements

Sun 23 February 2020
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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, it is analyzed how much the passenger improvement could be reached by upgrading a specific link. The importance of improving a specific link is expressed by ??? For a specific graphic, I only consider air links, that could be pushed under a limit of n minutes.

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 100 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 200 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 300 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 400 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 500 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 600 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 700 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 800 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 900 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1000 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1100 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1200 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1300 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1400 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1500 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1600 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1700 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1800 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 1900 min

Passenger Travel Time improvements for routes below 2000 min

Furthermore, I have taken the data for all train rides <= 1400 and ordered the individual links between cities by their biggest ridership * time / distance gain. Now, one by one, I assume that this link is upgraded to a high speed one. In the graphic below we can see, how many more connections, that previously fell above the limit of 900, are now convertible to a night train connections.

#Night Trains by increasing High Speed Links

NOTE: in this analysis, I am not (yet) considering the fact, that by building new high speed connections, the routes for other trains will change (which I should). If we included this, the rise should be much sharper.