Andrew Sharp

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Andrew Sharp

• Director General
• International Air Rail Organisation
• enquiries_at_iaro.com
• www.iaro.com
• www.airportrailwaysoftheworld.com

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Will we ever get high speed rail in Texas?

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How much will it cost?
Costs are in millions of Euros/kilometre. Source
CFiT 2004. 1/km 2.20/mile
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A valuable piece of research on costs of rail and
air

• Air and rail competition and complementarity
• http//ec.europa.eu/transport/air_portal/
• internal_market/studies/doc/2006_08_study_air_rail
  _competition_en.pdf

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Where will the money come from?

• Public, private, combination?
• Dedicated taxation?
• Whose priority?
• Tax on land value increase ?

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Italian Railways experience

• "When we open a new station there is a 30 to 40
  percent rise in real estate values in just a few
  years."
• Carlo de Vita of RFI (Italian railway
  infrastructure authority)

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Jubilee Line extension in London

• 11 stations, 10 miles
• Cost to taxpayer - 7bn
• Increase in local property value - 26bn
• Increase in value of real estate within 1000
  yards of the 11 stations

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Transit oriented development funding railways
Apartments
Airport railway
Shopping mall
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Agglomeration or cluster benefits

• Labour market larger and more specialised
• Synergy and support services
• Larger local customer base
• Easier to share knowledge and information
  formally and informally

http//www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/economics/rdg/webia/webt
heory/investigatingthelinkbetweenp1077
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Where will the lines go?

• In concept?
• In detail?

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Where will the lines go the concept?

• Connect major traffic generators
• City centres
• Near-city parknride areas
• Airports
• Do not stop trains anywhere else
• Whoever wants them!
• Unless they pay

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What does it cost to stop a train?
Oil and Transport (4), in issue 3/07 of the
magazine Railvolution. Assumes 60 mile/h electric
train
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Where will the lines go the detail

• NIMBY
• BANANA
• NUTS!

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Amiens and Ashford two losers!
High speed line Paris London/Brussels
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Aerodynamic design
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The best kind of noise barrier
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Unloading checked baggage containers, Frankfurt
Airport
4 minutes is more than enough time to load and
unload passengers and checked bags
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Platform screen doors
Mai Foo station, on KCRs West Rail, Hong Kong
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How close?

• 1330 Kings X Edinburgh and
• 1334 Kings X Hull were timed
• They ran 112 120 seconds apart at 125 mile/h
  over a 70 mile stretch
• Thats 4 miles apart
• Theoretical minimum is 3.25 miles
• Source ERTMS no magic bullet in Modern
  Railways, September 2007 pages 24/25.

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Oslo Gardermoen Airport
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Shanghais maglev
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However, it should be noted that we still have a
large barrier the problem of cost to overcome
before the maglev system can be widely
used. Eisuke Masada, Chairman of the Japanese
Railway Technical Research Institute in Railway
Technology Avalanche magazine, 26 December 2007
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Shanghai maglev a high speed project

• 30 June 2000 agreement on feasibility study
• 20 November 2000 feasibility study complete (5
  months from agreement)
• 23 January 2001 construction contract awarded
  (7 months from agreement)
• 9 August 2002 first vehicles delivered
• 31 December 2002 first passengers carried (30
  months from agreement)
• 29 December 2003 Full commercial service

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Shanghai Maglev guideway columns
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Ownership models

• Integrated freight railway (US model)
• Integrated freight and passenger railway (old
  European model)
• Infrastructure owner selling paths or slots (new
  European model)

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The process

• Long
• Tedious
• Expensive
• Plenty of scope for derailment

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Get airlines on board

• Code-shares
• leading to
• Profits
• Productivity

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Without this person, Texan airspace and
roadspace would be gridlocked
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Texas High Speed Railcould be

• Built by Spanish labour
• Operated by Swiss or Japanese
• Using trains designed in Korea and
• Funding method from Hong Kong
• OK?

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I do not believe anything is impossible...

• ... until Ive seen it tried by someone who
  really wants it to work

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How much do you want high speed rail in Texas?