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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Spain and France especially seem to be doing a good job building high speed rail:

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This is a cool chart, but I wonder how someone could normalize this data for the size of a country, or how many miles are between its major metropoles, or something. China's a lot bigger than most of the other countries on this list, and the HSR is concentrated in the heavily populated eastern half of the country.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours 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.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours 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.