Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:55:36 +0200 From: "Mark Gerritsma" <nl.autonopsamtmfweb.nld> Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup
davehinznopsamcop.net <davehinznopsamcop.net> schreef: > I don't know if trains would work as well for commercial shipping > here, as they do in say Europe. The distances involved are awfully > large here. Passenger rail works between, say, Brussels and Paris, > but from Milwaukee to Denver, it's not a great option. In this case a bad example , because between Brussels and Paris there is a high speed rail link (186 mph) between the two cities. High speed passenger links work up to about 600 mi. If you go beyond that an airplane would be faster. Trains do not work well at all for commercial shipping in Europe. At every border the locomotive has to be replaced (different safety systems and overhead wire voltages) and especially at transit stations lots of time is lost. The extra costs of road shipping is usually far outweighed by the shortenend delivery time. > Maybe not > relevant when you're shipping stuff rather than people, I don't know. Goods in transit represent value. This values cannot be use for something else. Thus you want to limit shipping time to an as short as possible period. But there also has to be a correlation betweem shipping time and effort required. Mark