HIGH SPEED 2

High Speed 2 Rail



High Speed 2 Rail

Introduction

Rail transport is a means of great importance in the UK, both for their work historical tradition and the volume of passengers transported (over 1,200 million trips last year). Since the opening of the first railway in the world in the early nineteenth century, British rail system has experienced continuous growth until today. The network currently has more than 16,000 kilometres of track and 2,500 stations over throughout the country. The British railway network is its highest density in the region of southeast England, largely due to the influence of the capital, London. Of the 19,000 service-pass operated daily passengers (more than 3.15 million people a day) about 75% starts or ends in the metropolis. However, despite increasing levels of investment in infrastructure (from April 2006 and March 2007 were invested about 5,300 million), United Kingdom has a very limited high-speed network. Especially when compared with other European Union countries such as France and Britain.

High Speed Rail in the UK

Over the years have arisen subsequent technological improvements and innovations in transportation have played a key role in economic growth and have helped meet the growing demands of citizens' mobility. The essential factor for the success of all these has been the significant improvement in the speeds that has enabled access to more distant places without increasing travel time. This has resulted in the passenger transport map has changed drastically with a predominance of the car in short and medium distances and aircraft over long distances.

In this sense, it seems that the railway, having been a long time since the nineteenth century was a key factor in the industrial revolution has reached its saturation phase, becoming a marginal mode of passenger transport and goods. The high speed train (AVE) has been become the salvation of the railroad, with the hope that the railways can regain market share.

The aim of this paper is to communicate a series of reflections not dogmatic about the viability of the AVE in Britain. In particular, it determines the volume of demand that makes a project economically viable AVE in Britain. The delimitation of this break-social can serve as a useful aid to planning and design of public policy infrastructure and transport services.

The British Minister for Transport, Lord Adonis, announced that in 2017 will begin to build the first section of the second high speed line in Britain. Connection will be 190 kilometres long linking the capital with Birmingham at 250 kilometres per hour and will be ready in 2026. After the HS1, the train that connects London and Paris under the Channel, the HS2 join London and Edinburgh.

This is the first line they will be inside the island and cost, in total 30,000 million pounds (about 35,000 million) while the subsection announced yesterday between London and Birmingham will cost between 15,800 and 17,000 million pounds. The second phase will extend the line to Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh and Lord Adonis said yesterday that it ...