Which Is More Efficient: The TGV Network, The Shikansen Network Or The Deutsche Bahn Network?

Question

Which Is More Efficient: The TGV Network, The Shikansen Network Or The Deutsche Bahn Network?

Answer 1

If you mean time efficient thats got to be the fine Japanese one you mentioned -Shikansen. If they have a train thats 2 minutes late its a 'national disaster' -and thats no joke (the culture you see). Compare with our British trains where every day I see drivers and guards sauntering up to trains without a care in the world and then the thing pulls away from the terminus 4 minutes late before the journeys EVEN BEGUN and noone barely notices. Management dont even class it as late unless its more than 5 minutes delayed. Poor, poor, very poor. (Thats what so-called 'Great' Britain has become -makes my blood boil!). Sorry; you set me going with that one....

paulrb8 -youve got a good point there -its the yobs, k***s and slobs that drag down our system much of the time rather than the railway itself. Point taken.

Answer 2

The TGV is the most efficient..  

their government has funded top quality services and lines, that's why British ones seem so poor, its only due to lack of funds and the fact that all the others have miles and miles of empty fields to run through and  Britain is built up, otherwise with funds we could compete...

i think the  British railway does really well, considering the problems we face every day, yobs, drunks vandalism and the signalman& Network rail  cause 80% of delays....... see the bigger picture.....

Answer 3

Depends what you mean by efficient really.

If you mean Energy Efficiency then you need to find out the output and divide it by the input.

Or do you mean which is more cost Efficient as far as the operatersare concerned?

Or did you mean time efficient?

:)