• Gsus4@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but the major factor invoked by think-tanks (which admittedly only care about aviation and car industries) is always that the low-population-density makes track-laying and maintenance unprofitable outside freight, unlike in Europe or Asia, I can get you one example of such a report.

    These cost calculations probably aim for optimising cost and not for CO2 emissions :/ anyway, good explanation with the decentralised and public-private mesh rail network

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      1 year ago

      the low-population-density makes track-laying and maintenance unprofitable

      Yet no one cares how much municipalities have to keep going into debt to subsidize the creation of those low population areas in the first place.