Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel? by Aloha on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:53AM (#20864008)

I think high speed rail is great, but it doesn't seem to work well on routes longer then 3-500 miles, if for no other reason than the construction cost is too high.

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Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel? by KptMarchewa on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:55AM (#20864472)

Yet it works in China. The reason why it won't work is because flight is essentially subsidized - if you were to pay for all flight externalities, it would be way costlier than trains even on longer routes. Probably not on routes such as LA-NYC or tho.

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Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel? by wiggler00m on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:14AM (#20864562)

You can travel 1176.3 miles via high speed rail (shinkansen) in Japan (Hokkaido to Kyushu).

3 of the air routes that cover this journey are in the top 11 busiest domestic routes in the world (#3 Sapporo to Tokyo-Haneda;#4 Fukuoka to Tokyo-Haneda;#11 Tokyo-Haneda to Osaka-Itami).

The highest ranking US domestic route is #30 (JFK-LAX), though by distance it's almost 3X (2827.2 miles).

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