03-04-2021, 10:52 AM
(03-04-2021, 12:54 AM)jwilliamson Wrote: It's a little over 30km from New Hamburg to Breslau, so 30 minutes seems like a reasonable one-way runtime for a DMU that tops out over 100km/h. If you time it right, you could probably get away with a single passing loop near the middle of the line and have service every half hour each way.
At 0.1m/s² average acceleration (what HSR trains ins Europe usually do) to the maximum of class 6 track speeds (~177 km/h) takes about 12km worth of track and under 8.5 minutes of time, so you'd have about 2 minutes at speed before slowing down at the same rate, for about 19 minutes travel time.
At 0.3m/s² average acceleration (what commuter rail, LRTs, busses, often accelerate at) it takes about 4.6km and under 3 minutes, so about 7 minutes at speed before needing to start deceleration, for roughly a 12.5 minute trip time.