Re:Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
by bobthepanda on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:33PM
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For air travel, the stops (airports) are the congested nodes but the way between them (air) has much more possibility.
Trains are limited onto tracks and cannot merge out of the way, so point to point more quickly exhausts route capacity. Stations are less of a constraint.
Trains also lower the cost of transferring; airplane transferring is at best a hassle and at worst an ordeal. Meanwhile, trains can literally stop across the same platform across from each other so you walk a few meters at most. Japan does this a lot, where trains are timed to facilitate such quick connections.
Trains are limited onto tracks and cannot merge out of the way, so point to point more quickly exhausts route capacity. Stations are less of a constraint.
Trains also lower the cost of transferring; airplane transferring is at best a hassle and at worst an ordeal. Meanwhile, trains can literally stop across the same platform across from each other so you walk a few meters at most. Japan does this a lot, where trains are timed to facilitate such quick connections.