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How far can you go by train in 5h?

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Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?

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It also shows how much the train networks focus on domestic travel. In nearly all bigger countries it is possible to reach most bigger cities within the 5h. But journeys in this time-frame seldomly go much beyond the border. There is still much optimization potential for transnational travel in Europe's train network.

It also shows an effect that the focus on high speed rail brings: rural areas are often very badly connected. Here in France they've even kept shutting down regional lines. That creates the train equivalent of "fly-over states": areas that you see from the train while going through, but that it would be impractical to go to.

Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?

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I delight in isochrone maps[0]! There used to be some open source, web interfaces but they all became commercial.

An isochrone map is one of the best tools for weekend get-aways, job hunting, and finding a home location.

OpenStreetMap[1]! Add it to your site, it will be great hit, in my opinion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?

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Why some parts of Europe is missing, e.g. Greece? Source seems to have data for it. Also, it would be neat to see more countries of the world mapped out: Japan, US for a start.

I'd be very interested in China's, given their recent work on high speed rail.

Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?

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You can really see the Paris-centric approach in France: From Paris you can reach almost any other major city in 4h, but on the other hand, all the other metropolis can barely reach 1/4th of the other major population center in 4h.

Compare this to Germany where almost any major metropolis can reach 80% of the country in 4h ...

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