Sunday 20 September 2009

High Speed Rails.

High speed rail is a kind of transport which is much faster than usual trains and their average speed is about 200 km/h and faster. High Speed Rail has many advantages over other types of transport. First of all, it is called to be environmentally friendly and green transport due to a lower consumption of energy per person, big capacity, reduced land usage and also smaller amount of carbon dioxide emissions.
Also when we compare High Speed Rail service with other types of transport such as car, trains, the former has advantage in being much faster and connecting city centers, while trains or aircrafts usually stop outside the city and passengers will have to find ways of getting the town after their plane/train. This advantage increases demand for rails and make them more convenient rather than others.
Besides, there is no need to book and buy ticket beforehand usually, so if one decides to go somewhere he easily can use rails without any reservations. Also some rails allow standing passengers in comparison to planes or buses where only sitting passengers are allowed and this increases capacity of high speed rails. However, on the other hand there is a big disadvantages of using rails when we compare them to private cars, because in your own car you can do whatever you want and change your destination or plans anytime, while in rails if you forget something, it would be difficult to come back then find another rail. The same is with other types of public transport.
In terms of safety, High speed rails are less likely to have different accidents as they are much simpler in controlling due to their predictable course, however it is not 100% safe transport.
Another advantage which we can find in use of High Speed Rails is that they are not so dependable on weather as planes of cars. In businesses’ point of view, High Speed Rails are convenient types of transport since they don’t require going through customs, or repeated checking baggage and highly time-reliable as they usually depart and arrive on time. Also they allow use of mobile phones or internet, while planes not.
When we talk about costs of High Speed Rails it is obvious that this types of transport is more expensive in comparison to buses for example as they require to create the whole modern transport system, also even if they are green transport, they create negative externalities the same with other types of transport: air and noise pollution.

7 comments:

chris sivewright said...

At last....a post from an A2 student.

Someone, somewhere is still trying....

With Sociology about to start, will this person once again start posting a D-A-I-L-Y blog?

chris sivewright said...

Keep up with AS students...

http://pepijnvaneck.blogspot.com/2009/09/market-structure-competitive-behaviour.html?showComment=1253486271962#c893243308790606311

chris sivewright said...

It's after the end of term but well worth it

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/as-a2-economics-revision-days-in-december-2009/

Aidana said...

Great post Elvaira)))))
Lublu tebya devochka moya!!!

chris sivewright said...

Aidana is alive!

Nowakonomics said...

I don't understand this: "High speed rails are less likely to have different accidents as they are much simpler in controlling due to their predictable course"

All trains run on tracks so their course is always predictable...

Elvi said...

Ah, i meant that I was comparing high speed rails with other modes of transport in this sentence but not with trains.