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Speaking only from my own experience, HSR stops take a lot longer than that. It takes the TGV five minutes to slow down and approach the station! The TGVs I've
by mimixco 5y ago
Speaking only from my own experience, HSR stops take a lot longer than that. It takes the TGV five minutes to slow down and approach the station! The TGVs I've ridden also do not do fast turnaround at stations. They sit there, like airplanes, while people board for the (obviously longer) trip. Yes, it's faster than an airplane to turnaround (less TSA nonsense, etc.), but not 5 minutes and not like a local or regional train, in my experience.
The whole reason the Houston to Dallas route is workable is that it does not stop at all in between.
- bluGill 5y agoTVG is a badly designed system and so it uses far more time to both at the stop and in acceleration. Try looking at shinkansen for an example of what is should be.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI've had this idea of feeder trains that rendezvous with the primary train by pulling along side, matching speed. Then a brief and orderly movement of passengers between feeder & primary train occurs. When complete, the feeder train disengages, slows back down — the primary train continues to its next destination. Feeder trains bring new passengers on board the primary train. They leave the station a little ahead of the incoming primary train in order to accelerate up to its speed just at the rendezvous point. Another empty feeder had already rendezvoused with the primary before the station and passengers disembarking were offloaded onto it. In short, the feeders can be small. The primary train need not stop at all the points in between. I would love to model this graphically.