Y tho? Isn’t capacity way more important than speed for freight? And also, 500km is nothing, why dedicate that to a few parcels moving really fast, instead of people? People profit way more than freight from very short travel times. That’s why in the EU freight trains are long as hell and they only go 120 because they need to get to their destination within a day which they can accomplish with way less wear and tear to the infrastructure.
For fresh food and high value electronics, speed is often more important than capacity. It sounds like this service will compete with air freight. I think JR knows what they are doing ;-)
Y tho? Isn’t capacity way more important than speed for freight? And also, 500km is nothing, why dedicate that to a few parcels moving really fast, instead of people? People profit way more than freight from very short travel times. That’s why in the EU freight trains are long as hell and they only go 120 because they need to get to their destination within a day which they can accomplish with way less wear and tear to the infrastructure.
For fresh food and high value electronics, speed is often more important than capacity. It sounds like this service will compete with air freight. I think JR knows what they are doing ;-)