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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by ryanjshaw on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:43AM (#35478112)
Surely you should be looking at derailments per passenger mile or <goods> mile, not absolute numbers?
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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by insane_dreamer on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:41AM (#35482828)
Fair point. But while US trains travel longer distances, you can be sure there are many more trains running in Japan than in the US (especially passenger trains. So my guess is that the numbers might be somewhat comparable.

No time for indepth research, but quick search shows Japan with 289 billion passenger/km (https://www.statista.com/statistics/627883/japan-railway-pas...) vs US 10 billion passenger/km (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_Uni...). But that's not fair comparison since in the US train is mostly used for freight.

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