Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date

Re:Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date by _nalply on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:35AM (#31882653)

Imagine you ordered something from Amazon. It will take about 24 hours till it is at your doorstep. If all that time was spent travelling at 30 km/h, it could have come from 720 km or 450 miles.

In Switzerland, the distance from Geneva to St. Gall is around 360 km.

Container ships travel typically at 16 to 25 knots (between 30 and 36 km/h), and they do this traveling very long distances.

In other words, low speed does not really matter for many goods, especially in small countries.

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Re:Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date by aenis on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:11AM (#31883577)

Also, its the average speed that counts. I doubt the avg speed of a freight truck running between two relatively close swiss cities exceeds 50km/h. Avg speeds drop sharply with any stops or slowdowns.

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