Re:The New Austrian Railways' Intercity and Nightjet Sleeper...
by phlo on Monday July 01, 2019 @08:41PM
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Interestingly, the Swiss railway system publishes real-world figures on its Co2 efficiency per passenger-kilometer. [https://www.mobitool.ch/de/tools/vergleichsrechner-15.html, german-only, un nfortunately]
They report some 80 passenger-km per liter of Diesel equivalent energy, compared to 13 passenger-km in a modern hybrid. Both values include the energy production, utilization and energy expenditure for infrastructure.
This assumes a modern network with electric trains though. I'm not sure if the article you cited still uses diesel-powered trains to arrive at such extremely different figures.
Re:The New Austrian Railways' Intercity and Nightjet Sleeper...
by c22 on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:56PM
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But that's just looking at fuel efficiency. What about the carbon cost of manufacture? How long does a train car stay in service vs a prius? What is the cost to manufacture a train car vs individual prii for n passengers?
https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/planes-trains-and-automobile...