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 ideal train connection that will use the existing network. Here, we consider ideal connections so changes will be neglected. As nights trains mostly run during times of low

To calculate the travel time between railway stations, the following data is taken.

• Trainline.eu's overview on travel times
• Rio2Rome.com's fastest point to point connections between stations if the above was not available.

Gathering Process

We considered all cities from the Wikipedia high speed railway network map. Each cities was mapped with a 3 letter abbreviation and the travel times to the surrounding cities (guided by the map above) were queried from the available data sources. The final data collected can be found here. Note: Times are provided as hh.mm, which cannot be interpreted as a decimal number.

Travel Speeds

There are several sources to find the travel speeds between cities. Here are a few sources that provide high speed lines.

This is an analysis how fast the trains run (point to point). Here, we just took each cities coordinates and calculated the between them.