high - speed rail

China will spend $200 billion on railways in the next two years, much of it for high-speed rail.

On top of that was the 67-mile high-speed rail link, running through south London and Kent - the Garden of England.

China has built the world's biggest high-speed rail network in record time, with its first trains beginning to run less than five years ago.

"We really need to identify flagship projects and high-speed rail might be one of them, " he said.

China is not the only country interested in selling high-speed rail equipment to the United States.

Domestic airlines had steeply discounted regional flights in June as the much-touted Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line prepared to open.

Perhaps the United States could focus on constructing a high-speed rail line or two, or maybe even finish the job on extending health care.

Supporters of a high-speed rail link to the north said the semi-final weekend highlighted the limited capacity of the current rail network.

The council described the moves as temporary and said the government is still committed to high-speed rail.

"If there's any place in the world right now where this makes sense, it's the U. S. Cars and jets won't do it; high-speed rail will. "

It does not take a lot of imagination to see the president's vision for high-speed rail idling in the political sidings indefinitely.

So while China has embraced a future of office parks and high-speed rail, India is just waking up to its new urban reality.

'Does the U. S. have high-speed rail yet? ' one conductor-in-training asked an American journalist as the train neared Shanghai.

China, with its sprawling networks of new highways, airports and budding high-speed rail connections, makes for a daunting comparison.

The domestic high-speed rail industry has sprung up in a few short years.

Even if high-speed rail were to double the number of riders, its market share would be paltry compared to air travel.

He's pushing for a nationwide, high-speed rail system, kind of like the one you see in this animation .

China is one of several countries, including Japan and France, interested in the U. S. high-speed rail market.

Chinese officials say the current high-speed rail network is only the beginning.

and a memorandum of understanding for China's Ministry of Railways to help construct an Astana-Almaty high-speed rail link.

At least 700 billion renminbi went to the high-speed rail system in 2010 alone, with "no independent oversight or regulation, " he said.

"I believe the high-speed rail market will be rosy" after many projects still under construction are put into service, he said.

The same ills seem to have plagued the vast high-speed rail programme.

Before the Wenzhou accident, high-speed rail had been a source of immense national pride.

With a rapidly expanding high-speed rail network, it remains to be seen whether people will rent cars or take trains instead, says Mr Russo.

Among the biggest beneficiaries of the high-speed rail system are companies that contribute nothing to defray its costs.

But this time, it would be an entirely different role: supplying the technology, equipment and engineers to build high-speed rail lines.

The high-speed rail system is mostly a middle-class concern, because China's new elite are the only ones who can afford the tickets.

"You can imagine who would laugh quietly on the side, " it said, in an apparent reference to foreign high-speed rail competitors.

Among the biggest beneficiaries of the high-speed rail system are firms that contribute nothing to defray its costs.

He said recent media reports about the high price of high-speed rail forced the ministry to re-examine the issue.

China's domestic high-speed rail market has boomed in recent years, but appears to be on the cusp of a slowdown.

The plan was to double the length of the high-speed rail lines by 2020, but confidence has faltered.

Earlier, the U. S. is building high-speed rail line bid of the French state-owned railway company was criticized for not apologizing.

Most of the major West European countries have embraced the concept of high speed rail networks.

Roads, incinerators, sewage plants and even a planned high-speed rail line connecting London with Scotland could be ushered through as well.

Most West European countries have embraced the concept of high-speed rail networks with enthusiasm.

He says the United States should not be left behind while other nations are moving ahead with high-speed rail.

But if the aim of Japan's high-speed rail revolution was to supplant domestic air travel, it has failed.

A Government White Paper will outline the route and cost of a high-speed rail (HSR) line running from London to Birmingham.

Spokesman Wang Yongping added: " China's high-speed rail technology is up to date and up to standard, and we still have faith in it. "

"We are cautiously optimistic on continuous revenue generation from China's high-speed rail segment for the next few years, " Mr. Wang said.

It needed GE as a partner to meet Buy American provisions in the U. S. high-speed rail projects.

But the shine has worn off China's high-speed rail efforts thanks to a series of setbacks over the last six months.

Low-cost power stations, high-speed rail networks, oil refineries and the like could save governments around the globe billions.

Alleviating air traffic congestion is one of the major goals of the new push into high-speed rail.

High-speed rail holds vast promise, from easing congestion (and speeding the flow of goods and services) to reducing carbon emissions.

President Barack Obama wants the United States to join other industrialized countries in having an extensive high-speed rail system.

A new expressway and a high-speed rail link is slated to be built to transport passengers from Daxing to Beijing in about 30 minutes.

Sibusiso Ndebele, transport minister, identified a high-speed rail link between the two cities as a priority in April.

California's much-vaunted high-speed rail project is, to put it bluntly, a train wreck.

Our future high-speed rail system promises to be worse. Zero planning, with a high cost.

One reason behind the high-speed-rail construction was to make moving freight more efficient.

High-speed rail services from Beijing to Wuhan are expected to open by the end of next year, according to Changjiang Daily.

China's high-speed rail companies have the advantage of building high-speed rails much more cheaply than their non-Chinese competitors.

Our competitors are pressing ahead with ambitious high-speed rail plans. We cannot allow Britain to be left behind.

Although the United States both parties expressed support for high-speed rail project, but they have major differences on how fund-raising.

European and Asian governments have actively supported high-speed rail for a variety of reasons.

Among the world-beating moves made by the Chinese is the construction of a network of high-speed rail lines.

Obama has also been criticized by those who see trouble in the breadth of his high-speed rail ambitions.

The technical and economic advantage of high-speed rail makes it fit for ad- dressing the needs of the urbanization process.

Of the $13 billion planned in the United States for high-speed rail projects, $8 billion is included in the budget for this fiscal year.

China's government has trumpeted its expanding network of high-speed rail links as a symbol of rapid technological development.

Over the next few years, China's high-speed rail will take shape quickly.

The high-speed rail system has epitomized the government's approach: a world-beating network expected to cost at least $300 billion.

Ever since the Eurostar linked Lille by high-speed rail to London and Brussels in 1994, services, and tourism in particular, have boomed.

High-speed rail was a patriotic symbol and the next great export.

Some economists believe that given its stage of development, China spends too much on expensive items like high-speed rail lines.

International rail experts say that China has mastered the art of building high-speed rail lines quickly and inexpensively.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is due to arrive in Morocco to oversee the start of construction on a new TGV high-speed rail link.

Due to the Bush administrations reign of terror and economic destruction, this country wont have high speed rail for decades.

The model measures interactions of passenger behaviors, reliability of feeder buses, and characteristics of high speed rail altogether.

"That will not happen, " says Quentin Kopp, chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority.

Thus Morgan Stanley analysts conclude that the high-speed rail will create enough economic value to keep itself financially sustainable.

Yet he has detailed plans for his people's betterment, from universities to high-speed rail, and he's delivering on them.

In fact, after the initial $8 billion down payment in the stimulus, Obama had seemed a bit reluctant to throw more money at high-speed rail.

But he thinks taking too much time will mean the end of the line for high-speed rail in California.

The high-speed rail networks may cover three routes, although the specific ones have yet to be decided.

Japan has had high-speed rail for nearly half a century without a single fatality in a train accident.

In the second State of the Union, Obama, the next 25 years, so that 80% of Americans can take advantage of high-speed rail travel.

Its high-speed rail network has been spinning a web from Paris to the corners of the French hexagon since the mid-1970s.

The invention relates to a hot rolling method for producing high-precision high-speed rail with heavy rail.

There are many political reasons why Florida was the right place for Obama to launch his high-speed rail push .

Whether that claim is true or not, China's high-speed rail companies are now the team to beat.

We've already paid for high speed rail in the US. It is called Iraq, Afghanistan.

But Mr Sheng's order should be enforced and should signal a more measured approach to high-speed rail.

"They've got a lot of capital, and they're willing to provide a lot of capital" for a California high-speed rail system, Mr. Crane said.

Wang said on the chat, noting that the trophy high-speed rail line was "still in a break-in period. "

Mr Wen earlier promised to take steps to improve safety on the high-speed rail network - one of the government's flagship projects.

The measure requires a simple majority vote, a California High Speed Rail authority spokesman said.

July's accident was the most damaging of several setbacks for China's high-speed rail plans.

Getting there - Either take the recently-opened high speed rail line from Taipei, or fly into Kaohsiung's modern and unhurried airport.

If you take the train on weekend, you might ask for the high-speed rail leaves every 5 minutes!

The Economist interviewed Mr Han in Zaozhuang, at the mid-point of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line.

The High - speed Rail's elevated track comes within 20 meters of area homes, who say that early tests have been ear-splitting .

Japan, which operates the world's busiest high-speed rail network with its Shinkansen trains, carries about 18 percent.

On Tuesday, netizens also reported water leaking from the roof of Nanjing South Railway Station, custom built for the high-speed rail.

Some 45 cathedrals are to be restored and also several castles, alongside the usual high-speed rail lines and roads.

China has plans to extend its high speed rail network to northern Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Mr Hammond says high-speed rail is a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity to reshape the country's economic geography.

The Beijing-Tianjin inter-city passenger line is also believed to be the pilot project of a massive high-speed rail network in China.

China Railway Group Ltd. , a civil-engineering company, is participating in a high-speed rail project in Venezuela.

High-speed rail has had mixed political support in the past. But President Obama says it could strengthen the U.

It was the second time in two months the ministry has halted a high-speed rail project.

Compared with other modes of transport, high-speed rail has more comparative advantages of resource conservation.

Beijinghas long pushed for technology transfer in fields from high-speed rail to clean energy as a condition of contracts or licenses.

S. China's government is pumping its new wealth right back into the country, building high-speed rail lines and opening new factories.

This mirrors a similar trend in Europe over the past two decades as high-speed rail networks have expanded.

Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want to abolish unions just so I could ride the high speed rail up to San Fransisco from LA heh.

Thanks to rapid investment, China's high-speed rail network is already more extensive than the rest of the world's combined.

The problem is in the speed of investment now, as China attempts to catch up by building the world's largest high-speed rail network.

Ying Jin at Cambridge University says high-speed rail could foster development away from China's mega cities.

Vice Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the high-speed rail plan at a train station in Philadelphis, Pennsylvania.

For high-speed rail is simply an imprudent and inefficient answer to an unreal American transportation need.

But Amtrak's looking to revamp its service, and announced plans in September to add a Next-Generation High-Speed Rail line in the Northeast.

The accident is the latest in a series of recent problems that have plagued the high-speed rail system.

Lowering the speed limit for China's showcase high-speed rail network signals a rethink of the country's ambitious plans.

Meanwhile, a shift in passenger traffic to the new high-speed rail routes has freed up congested older rail lines for freight.

Siemens and ThyssenKrupp are hoping for the go-ahead to extend Transrapid, Shanghai's high-speed rail system.

So will the world's center of green technology, supercomputing, high speed rail, nanotechnology and chemical manufacturing.

How can portfolio investors make money out of China's high-speed rail project?

It already exports high-speed rail equipment: This month it reached a deal to supply locomotives to the nation of Georgia.

Japan, Germany, South Korea, Spain, France and Italy have also approached California's High Speed Rail Authority.

And many European high-speed rail systems that are deemed cost-effective actually receive lots of extra help.

With its high-speed rail network, now the longest in the world, the Chinese are providing efficient intercity links into downtowns.

A team of 30 experts has given the green light for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line to open.

Democratic-controlled Congress approved $10. 5 billion for high-speed rail, most of it in the 2009 stimulus package.

China branch Aviation is currently being caught between main line aviation and high-speed rail with pain and happiness.

China has embraced high-speed rail and has developed its infrastructure at a tremendous rate.

But TAV protestors say they have plenty of reasons not to want a high-speed rail track in their backyard.

Meanwhile, a shift in passenger traffic to the high-speed rail routes has freed up congested older rail lines for freight.

The new alternative high-speed rail would affect individual traveler choice set and alternative choice.

The US cannot build high speed rail lines for a variety of reasons.

This is made even more true in light of the recent deadly high-speed rail crash and other problems and challenges the system has faced.

Fast forward, and California wants Chinese technology and capital to construct the country's first high-speed rail system.

"Sebastian Cabral brigade" members also burned vehicles and Siemens high-speed rail freight.

The state won the bulk of the $8 billion in grants for high-speed rail included in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.

for my daughter ' s first new year , we had originally planned to take the high speed rail down to tainan.

America has ten official high-speed rail corridors, designated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in the 1990s.

Walker and Barrett don't agree on much, but they agree that high-speed rail is a defining issue in their campaign.

"High-speed rail became a holy grail for progress, " the investigative newsmagazine Caixin wrote in a September editorial.

Britain's biggest rail union called for the elimination of level crossings on high-speed rail lines.

This shift is the consequence of an ambitious programme for high-speed rail.

Neither stock should be threatened, either, by the rise of high-speed rail.

They are hoping to start signing overseas deals to sell high-speed rail equipment, including locomotives and signalling systems.

Mr Obama's stimulus programme included nearly $30 billion for road- and bridge-building and an $8 billion commitment to high-speed rail.

It has also been keen to promote Japan's high-speed rail technology for use in Vietnam and other countries.

But planned investments in energy efficiency, electric vehicles and high-speed rail will take time.

But high-speed rail rarely delivers the widespread economic benefits its boosters predict.

China gets high speed rail between Beijing and Shanghai. For the same money we got a dozen B-2 bombers.

Three officials are fired amid a firestorm of criticism of the nation's high-speed rail system.

A train makes a trial run in Shanghai last month on a highly anticipated high-speed rail line to Beijing.

The intercity high-speed rail line connecting Nanchang and Jiujiang began operation on Monday.

One hare, which Alstom has set running, concerns Interfleet, a consultant on high-speed rail projects.

There is no such source of cash for high-speed rail, putting rail proponents at the mercy of political winds.

High-speed rail train runs at over 250 km per hour, about twice the normal speed of a regular train.

There is no known master plan for the high-speed rail network China wants to build in Southeast Asia.

This shift is the consequence of an ambitious program for high-speed rail.

'But as far as I know, lighting rods or surge protectors are not installed on the high-speed rail network's power distribution pylons. '

But despite the resulting price disadvantage, high-speed rail still has many attractions.

China just completed building the final leg of an 800 mile high-speed rail (HSR) line between Beijing and Shanghai.

The Taiwan High Speed Rail recently built a "soundproof room" where passengers can scream loudly.

China's high-speed rail network, built in less than a decade, is the world's longest.

But the California High-Speed Rail Authority says the Central Valley is a smart place to begin laying down track.

Republicans and Democrats generally support high-speed rail service.

They just got off the High Speed Rail and see many people waiting in line to get in a small room.

For instance, some 25 cities are now putting in or expanding subway lines, and high-speed rail tracks are spreading in every direction.

Even the shorter high-speed rail links are connecting major clusters of urban activity.

The state-run Xinhua news agency has said $28. 5 million was embezzled as part of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail project.

Western analysts often point to projects like high-speed rail as proof of China's seemingly boundless momentum.

But I traveled to four cities, some by (high-speed) rail.

China has already begun building high-speed rail routes in Turkey, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

Six weeks ago, I warned that President Obama's much maligned high-speed-rail program was becoming a " high-stakes gamble. "

The high-speed rail system has been accused of using shoddy materials and running trains faster than their planned top speed.

The line is the centerpiece of a 2 trillion-yuan investment in high-speed rail.

Though Republicans' outright rejection of high-speed rail is short-sighted, so were many of the plans themselves.

In April, President Obama released a strategic plan outlining his vision for high-speed rail.

Plans to expand high-speed rail ballooned beyond initial growth targets under the former minister, Mr. Liu, as did the ministry's debt.

Liu, who was appointed to the position in 2003, helped lead the country's development of its internationally lauded high-speed rail.

The extra federal funding will also benefit Florida, if plans for high-speed rail there go forward.

Peugeot likens the 5008's sleek design to the TGV, and the model does seem intended to compete with the comfort of high-speed rail travel.

Residents will be connected by a new elevated highway, and plans are afoot to build a subway and high-speed rail.

Last month's high-speed rail crash was a wake-up call for officials.

America's stimulus package, by contrast, musters only $8 billion for high-speed rail, with some extra requested in this year's budget.

The movement against the 26km railway, which will connect with China's high-speed rail network, was youth-led.

To drop your high-speed rail ticket as litter may leave your personal information betrayed.

Chinese officials voiced continued confidence in the high-speed rail service.

But the recent high-speed rail accident has led many to wonder if China is really ready for high-speed transit.

South Africa's new high speed rail line will connect with Durban so fans can easily reach the matches.

Japan has also been keen to market its high-speed rail technologies to emerging economies.

'We are committed to advancing the global high-speed rail technology market, ' said John Rice, a vice chairman at GE.

A man was recently given 3 days in detention for breaking a non-smoking rule on a new Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail line.

The government fired three senior railway officials and is reviewing safety on the country's four-year-old high-speed rail system.

Germany's high-speed rail network has put paid to short-haul flights between several cities.

I think they look at things like wind turbines and solar energy and how the Chinese are dominating those markets as well as high-speed rail.

Ensures that electrical work on high-speed rail project is fully operational.

Mr. Obama is including another $5 billion for high-speed rail in his federal budget.

He is backing new high-speed rail lines, which could provide some immediate demand for manufacturers.

As the High-Speed Rail will be started recently, the competition is very fierce in the domestic airlines in Taiwan.

Now, though, Japan wants to begin exporting its expertise in high-speed rail.

China's high-speed rail network is the envy of many countries.

At peak speed, the high-speed rail grid can support speeds of 350 km per hour, increasing commuting efficiency many times over.

Beijing's heavy investment in high-speed rail has lurched from scandal to tragedy.

China spent $34 billion on its new high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai.

Once taxes are involved, people lose their enthusiasm for high-speed rail.

High-speed rail is the key to China's balanced, sustainable double-digit growth.

The high-speed rail system is the solution to China's growth sustainability.

I think we can learn in Chicago and the United States some of the fine work that's being done on high-speed rail.

No high speed rail, no manufacturing, failing students.

High Speed Rail project is likely to face a new Republican-controlled Congress from the cold.

But the recent high-speed rail accident in China is not one of those.

The $10 billion bond measure that passed in 2008 expressly prohibits any public operating subsidy for California's high-speed rail.

It took me 5 minutes to walk from the hotel door to the Taiwan High Speed Rail lines.

'Building high-speed rail cannot generate enough cash flow.

Ultimately, high-speed rail's backers weren't as staunch as its detractors.

By the end of next year it'll have a high-speed rail network, bigger than the rest of the world put together.

SNCF and Deutsche Bahn are for the first time competing directly for mastery of European high-speed rail.

But prospects for high-speed rail in the Golden State quickly lessened.

High-speed rail was pioneered in post-war Japan in the 1950s and early 1960s with the construction of the Shinkansen .

When it came to end-use energy consumption, a high-speed rail train with 1011 passengers was equivalent to a car with five passengers.

high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction.

Taiwan has also climbed on board, and fast-growing China has plunged into high-speed rail in a big way.

Europe and Japan observed severe blows to their airline traffic from high-speed rail on overlapping routes below 800 km.

China gets high speed rail between Beijing and Shanghai.

This mismatch raises questions about the $300 billion being thrown at high-speed rail this decade.

China, of course, understands that, which is why it is investing heavily in clean-tech, efficiency and high-speed rail.

China slows its runaway high-speed rail expansion.

The AVE high-speed rail system in spain is presently being built.

Now, China's government is putting the brakes on high-speed rail.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Siemens AG, for example, worked with Chinese partners to help build China's high-speed rail network.

Mr Liu spearheaded the country's investment in high-speed rail and has been dismissed.

China's high-speed rail ambitions are already global.

The underlying assumption of high-speed rail is that proximity to London, measured in journey times, is key to regeneration.

The economics of high-speed rail do not work, especially in America.

High-speed rail was also in that category.

For example, China spent almost $300 billion on high speed rail, but is now having problems with it.

Others had to buy the pricier high-speed rail tickets or even fly, an expensive prospect for average workers.

High-speed rail can be really time ah, but also came back for a few minutes.

It said China would continue to expand the world's largest high-speed rail system, albeit more cautiously than in the past.

According to my experience, high-speed rail system is very convenient and efficient.

Russia is developing a high-speed rail network ahead of the FIFA World Cup in 2018.

China is betting its citizens will grow into high-speed rail as incomes and the value of people's time rises.

But high-speed rail is a dangerous business; a 1998 accident in Germany killed more than 100 people.

The leaders have pinned their own and the country's prestige to high-speed rail.

Japan opened the world's first high-speed rail line, between Tokyo and Osaka, in time for the 1964 Olympics.

"High-speed rail in some sense represents China's fast growth, " Mr Shen said.

The high-speed rail costs more than double.

Graduates also apply these skills to designing automobiles, high-speed rail vehicles, and other kinds of streamlined transportation.

President Obama says high-speed rail could do for America what it is already doing for other countries, including China and Spain.

Taiwan High Speed Rail Company?