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The biggest problems with American rail infrastructure are related to passenger service. The US has one of the largest freight rail systems in the world by wha
by AlotOfReading 1y ago
The biggest problems with American rail infrastructure are related to passenger service. The US has one of the largest freight rail systems in the world by whatever metric you want to use: total miles (#1), annual tonnage (#2), ton mileage (#3) or modal share (#7).
In any case, semis occupy a largely separate mode of transportation that aren't cost competitive with freight rail where it's viable. Autonomous semis are competing mainly with the limitations of human drivers, not freight rail.
- sien 1y agoTo reinforce this, an article about how the US has a world leading freight rail system. https://www.marketurbanist.com/blog/why-americas-freight-train-system-is-the-worlds-best https://www.marketurbanist.com/blog/why-americas-freight-tra...
- potato3732842 1y ago>mainly with the limitations of human drivers, not freight rail. Which are regulatory more than technical at this point and could change overnight. Obviously drivers need to sleep but the tech to make doubles and perhaps even triples workable exists but isn't worth deploying because our regulations are stuck in 1980.