High speed world How the UK compares Key High Speed in operation High Speed in development phase Proposed UK line

KM of high speed rail track, 2008 compared to 2025 1,737 high-speed train sets 832km in 2008 Engine and carriage trains able to China FINLAND operate at least at 250km/h, 2008 8,311 by 2025 Kristiansund Ange 1,594 Dombas Spain 5,515 Tampere NORWAY 1,872 Turku St. Petersburg France 4,787 Bergen Gavle Helsinki 1,050 Oslo SWEDEN 0 Tallinn Europe Turkey 2,424 Stavanger Stockholm ESTONIA 1,285 Japan 3,625 SCOTLAND Gothenburg Riga RUSSIA Moscow 1,285 Glasgow Germany 2,333 Edinburgh LATVIA 427 DENMARK Japan 0 Newcastle Portugal 1,006 Fredericia Copenhagen LITHUANIA 362 Vilniaus RUSSIA 163 USA 750 Manchester Minsk China Gdansk WALES 0 Hamburg Birmingham Sweden 712 POLAND BELARUS 47 Korea NETHERLANDS 0 Hanover 30 Taiwan Amsterdam Berlin Poznan Warsaw Poland 1,262 ENGLAND 20 London Rotterdam GERMANY US 562 Brussels Geleen Kiev Italy 1,271 Wroclaw Cherbourg BELGIUM Katowice 0 Le Havre UKRAINE Krakow Morocco Brest Frankfurt Prague 680 CZECH Luxembourg Nuremberg 0 Paris REPUBLIC Strasbourg Russia 650 Stuttgart SLOVAKIA Nantes Munich Vienna 0 Bratislava MOLDOVA Saudi Arabia 550 Zurich AUSTRIA Budapest FRANCE Bren 0 HUNGARY SWITZERLAND ROMANIA Brazil 500 SLOVENIIA Bordeaux Geneva Coruna Ljubljana Zagreb 0 Lyon Milan Venice India Turin 495 Bucharest Bilbao Belgrade 0 Leon Toulouse Bologna CROATIA BOSNIA & Vitoria Nimes Nice HERZEG. Iran 475 MONACO Porto Perpignan Florence PORTUGAL SERBIA 0 Valladolid ANDORRA Marseille BULGARIA Coimbra Argentina 315 Sofia

Zaragoza Skopje Sivas 0 Madrid Barcelona Pescara Lisbon Rome Istanbul Netherlands 120 ITALY MACEDONIA Ankara 330 SPAIN Naples ALBANIA Thesseloniki Bursa Kayseri South Korea 412 Valencia 137 Sevilla Alicante Belgium 209 TURKEY Konya Cadiz Granada Cartagena 35 Malaga Izmir Switzerland 107 Pyrgos Athens

113 GREECE UK 113 Siracusa High speed transforms travel High-speed line cost High speed outside Europe % of journey by type of transport Construction cost per km,€ millions China Harbin Japan US Portland Train Car Plane Bus Boston Spain AVE Madrid-Lerida Shenyang Providence Sapporo Paris - Brussels Madrid - Seville France TGV Atlantique New York Philadelphia 1hr 25mins in high-speed 2hr 30mins in high-speed France TGV Mediterenee Beijing Hakodate 5 Tianjin Washington DC 8 67 16 Germany ICE Frankfurt-Cologne Aomori 7 2 Hachinohe Alexandria Shinkansen-Thoku, Japan Jinan Akita 61 Zhengzhou Morioka 43 84 Xuzhou Shinkansen-Joetsu, Japan Xian Shinjo Nanjing Yamagata TGV Korea, Korea Niigata Shanghai Fukushima Italy Naples-Rome and Florence-Turin Wuhan 50 Nagano Shinkansen-Hokuriku, Japan Kanazawa Changsa Omiya 33 Takasaki TGV Taiwan, Taiwan Zhuzhou 24 Osaka Tokyo HSl Zuid, Netherlands Okayama Nagoya Channel Tunnel Rail Link, UK Guangzhou Shenzen Hakata Before HST Today Before HST Today 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Yatsushiro Nagasaki SOURCE:UIC (INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYS) SOURCE: COMMISSION FOR INTERGRATED TRANSPORT Kagoshima SOURCE: UIC