• Soleos@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      For context, the total length of high speed rail in the world is 59,000km. So China, which makes up 17% of the world’s population contains 2/3 of the world’s high speed rail.

      The closest comparison would be Europe, which has about the same land mass and half the population of China has around 11,000km of big speed rail.

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      2 months ago

      It’d be hard to quantify, but I’m sure some statistics person could compare transportation methods, that includes speed, distance, energy usage, population, capacity, and probably a few more, per capita.

      You could isolate it to a country’s top X biggest cities, and how traveling between them compares in all those metrics.