Today is the 10th anniversary of the opening of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway.Transport 1.69 billion passengers in ten years. 2289km, 8 hours at the fastest. pic.twitter.com/25z8Kgs97r— Sharing travel (@TripInChina) December 26, 2022
Quite good numbers. That is around 19-20k persons per hour for all its existence averaged. I remember that some people snickered about it. It does beat with that result also quite a few routes in France, Swiz and Germany.
Compare that to the theoretical maximum of 1-2k per hour on a street, which in practice is more likely a value between 0.08k-0.3k (at most) people per hour in practice. Order(s) of magnitude win for extremely little space, more efficient, faster. :train-shining:
Quite good numbers. That is around 19-20k persons per hour for all its existence averaged. I remember that some people snickered about it. It does beat with that result also quite a few routes in France, Swiz and Germany.
Compare that to the theoretical maximum of 1-2k per hour on a street, which in practice is more likely a value between 0.08k-0.3k (at most) people per hour in practice. Order(s) of magnitude win for extremely little space, more efficient, faster. :train-shining: