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It's a simple matter of demand and supply. There are more travelers than available seats. The obvious solution is to increase the number of trains, but the basic infrastructure is barely adequate to support the existing services. A massive infrastructure overhaul is urgently needed.
The silver lining is projects such as the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), closed-loop regional transit systems like the Delhi--Meerut RRTS, and, to some extent, the new expressways. These projects will certainly help take some load off the existing rail network.
According to big data statistics from China, a comparison of actual travel times between high-speed rail and air travel reveals the following:
Within 800km, high-speed rail has a significant time advantage;
Within 800-1200km, high-speed rail and air travel are roughly equivalent, with considerable fluctuations in specific times, indicating fierce competition between the two;
Beyond 1200km, air travel has a significant time advantage.
Note that this analysis is based on the operating speed of China's high-speed rail.
From a cost perspective: High-speed rail ticket prices in China are relatively fixed, while airfares fluctuate greatly, making precise analysis impossible.
However, most of the time, when the distance between two locations exceeds 1200km, airfares are highly likely to be lower than high-speed rail fares. The greater the distance, the more pronounced the price advantage of airfares becomes.
Congressis would see this and feel the nostalgia of UPeeA era where the scent of piss and gogshit on open-air platforms was vivid. Lmao.
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