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This should help a lot. When I worked in the rail automation biz (for a 100B multinational) the internal heuristic for people transport worldwide was two heavy
by nickbauman 10y ago
This should help a lot. When I worked in the rail automation biz (for a 100B multinational) the internal heuristic for people transport worldwide was two heavy commuter rail lines were the equivalent of a 24-lane highway all parameters being equal (which they never are: there were tons of planning formulae brought to bear when making projections).
- gaul 10y agoWikipedia suggests 3x more passengers per track/lane at 40% of the land use based on Eurostar and the Highway Capacity Manual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#Automobiles_and_buses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#Automobiles_an... Tokaido Shinkansen carries twice as many passengers so this agrees with your post end assuming that two rail lines each have two tracks each. Note that this is the most extreme example, most railways do not carry this capacity.