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Lets quickly check Wikipedia China: Total length: 155,000 km (100,000 km electrified) Total passenger/km: (1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres, 2019) Tota
by sitharus 3y ago
Lets quickly check Wikipedia
China:
Total length: 155,000 km (100,000 km electrified)
Total passenger/km: (1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres, 2019)
Total freight: 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres (2019)
US:
Total length: 257,722 km (160,141 mi) (I can't find figures on electrified length, seems at most 2000km?)
Total passenger/km: (10.3 billion, 2014)
Total freight: 1.71 trillion short ton-mile, approx 963 billion tonne-kilometres (I used wolfram alpha for that conversion)
So if my calculations are correct - which they may not be - on fewer rails China transports an order of magnitude more passenger and freight traffic.
- anonexpat 3y ago94% of China's population lives in the 43% of the country closest to the ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line
- ses1984 3y agoWhat percent of people in the US live in the 43% of the country closest to the ocean?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoYour conversion is wrong. 1 mile is about 1.6 kilometers; 1 short ton is about 0.9 tonnes. One short ton-mile will be about 1.5 tonne-kilometers.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoRail networks aren't capacity-limited by the number of miles of track and China has three times the population. But the premise is meaningless. It's easy for a government to affect the usage of something by subsidizing it or constraining alternatives to it, which has little to do with whether it would be more efficient or well-managed as a public agency.