High Speed Rails

The intent of this analysis is to compare and contrast the cost structures for rail, motor carriers and air modes of transportation. Implicit in this analysis is the rapid adoption of intermodal transportation which is often optimized to specific logistics and supply chain objectives (Jennings, Holcomb, 1996).

railroad has allowed the rail industry to provide a more tailored service to its customers. It has also

Transportation financial matters, the investigation of the portion of transportation assets keeping in mind the end goal to address the issues of a general public. In a macroeconomic sense, transportation exercises shape a part of a country's aggregate financial item and assume a part in building or reinforcing a national or local economy and as an impact in the advancement of area and different assets. In a microeconomic sense, transportation includes relations in the middle of firms and individual buyers. The interest for and supply of transportation for both travelers and cargo, transportation evaluating, and the reasons why the transportation framework is both managed and deregulated are among its worries. Reference acquired from :http://www.britannica.com/topic/transportation-economics)

. It is very possible that rail is currently permitting something of awakening. Countries that have not traditionally had a culture of rail transit, and regions where there has been a history of underinvestment, are changing course with power. Fantasying how rail adventures might be competed in 2050 and the coming years will help shape the rising role that rail will play in our future.

Different kinds of technologies are used widely and that has become the architect of one’s intimacies in contemporary society. Technology has improved the life standard

The more modern life, the higher traveling. One country cannot develop without traveling. Thus, governments should give more money, and policies to improve the quality of streets, roads, highways and besides, governments have to increase more public transportation such as buses, trains, subways.. to service the needs of traveling.

Secondly Road freight transport has advantages such as cheaper investment funds, high accessibility, mobility and availability. While its disadvantages are low capacity, less safety, and quite slow in speed. Thirdly and lastly the advantages of pipeline transport are high carrying capacity, lower effect by weather situation, cheaper operation price, and continuous conveyance while the disadvantages are very expensive infrastructures, harder supervision, goods specialization, and lots of normal maintenance needed. Too much usage of land transport might also brings many problems, such as traffic jams, pollution and also traffic collision. So In the future, if want to improve the land transport to make the transport efficiency and reliability, a revolution of transport policies and management is needed, for example like

In the period of between 1950 and 1980, the figuers decresed though the pace of decreasings are different . Commencing at highest of figures at 1000 million trips. The number of national rail network trips went up erratically to zenith of 1100 million trips prior to decreasing gradually and irregularly to just over 750 million trips. The number of London underground trips ranks ranked at second position at the beginning of period experienced a stable period between 1950 and 1980 at well under 750 million trips. Therefore, there was narrowing gap between the figure of nation rail network and London underground. The light rail and metro systems only appeard in the middle of this period at the lowest level bottomed out at 0 in 1980.

As it is noted, the Inland Rail project covers the rural areas of the eastern states of Australia, including Victoria, NSW and Queensland. In addition, this project also includes the utilization of some existing rail tracks together with some construction of new pathways.

A South African provincial administration has decided to build a railway, 80 km long between two cities. The provincial administration has recommended using either Cape gauge (existing railway gauge in South Africa) or European gauge (also called the Standard gauge). A railway gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two parallel rails that make up a single railway line. This essay will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of two gauges then a recommendation on the type of gauge to use. There are two important things to consider when selecting a gauge, which are cost and heritage.

Nowadays many people look at technological development as a questionable topic. It causes a divide in society, some people believe it is necessary, while others think it has more disadvantages than benefits. One can argue for and against it, but we can safely say it is worth to look at both sides in detail.

It is a matter of history that H Neuvon, who was a member of the Japanese delegation (1960) visiting France about the 25kV overhead traction system and played an important role in the first Shinkansen, was closely associated with the Indian Railways in introducing the Rajdhani Express trains. While IR is still stuck at the 1964 determined 130 kmph restriction, the Japanese have already migrated to double the speed already.

Traditionally, the focus of transport system has been on passengers as cities were looked as locations of maximum human interactions with each other with intricate traffic patterns linked to commuting, commercial transactions and cultural/leisure activities.

(In this research case, I want to know what the key factors of the profitable MTR system are. In another word, what conditions other cities in developing countries need in order to successfully replicate the MTR rail-property development model.)

Malaysia and Singapore bonds are unique and idiosyncratic due to factors such as geography, history, politics, culture and ethnicity.1They are substantial trading partner and their bilateral trade amounted to S$113.4 billion in 2012, up from S$77.2 billion in 2003. The island’s investment into Malaysia has climbed about 25 percent annually over the past three years, according to DBS Group Holdings Ltd.2This increase in trade makes quintessential the need to enhance economic linkages between the two countries and the High Speed Rail (HSR) project presented an opportunity to open up and rejuvenate smaller cities in Peninsular Malaysia by connecting them to the two major metropolises. The HSR is an efficient and safe mode of transport which results in dramatic travel time savings.We will firstly analyse the cost and benefits of the HSR and we will try to discuss if the value of the project outweigh the MYR 40 billion construction cost.