alt Hacker NewsWhat about short distances? Why is it cheaper to fly Berlin-Stuttgart than to take a train? it makes absoutely no sense.
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londons_explore • last Tuesday at 8:02 PM
Trains are expensive because the track is 99.9% empty.
If you could fill a train track as much as a road is filled, it would be very cheap
The costs are pretty evenly split between: 1) Maintaining track 2) Buying/leasing/maintaining trains 3) Staff
The single best thing you can do to drive down train cost is to put more people on each train.
Based on these sources: https://www.statista.com/chart/20169/gb-rail-fare-spending-b...
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/f5c82d86-23...