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Surely you should be looking at derailments per passenger mile or <goods> mile, not absolute numbers?
by ryanjshaw 4y ago
Surely you should be looking at derailments per passenger mile or <goods> mile, not absolute numbers?
- insane_dreamer 4y agoFair point. But while US trains travel longer distances, you can be sure there are many more trains running in Japan than in the US (especially passenger trains. So my guess is that the numbers might be somewhat comparable. No time for indepth research, but quick search shows Japan with 289 billion passenger/km (https://www.statista.com/statistics/627883/japan-railway-passenger-volume/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/627883/japan-railway-pas...) vs US 10 billion passenger/km (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_Uni...). But that's not fair comparison since in the US train is mostly used for freight.