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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
You are leaving out all the time consuming steps to air travel. Parking, terminal shuttles, check in if checking baggage, security, waiting waiting and more waiting. And then do much of the reverse once you land. That's a far cry from being dropped off and getting to board a hsr train that departs every 15 minutes or so. Your time savings over air with the lower average speed figured in is at the endpoints.
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No I'm not, those things are literally the entire point of my post. But without transit those same sort of issues apply to high speed rail too because you have to drive into traffic-congested downtown, find a parking spot (which don't exist near either station in question) and then walk to the train station.
I'll try to spell it out more simply:
Airplane: High fixed time delay but fastest travel speed.
HSR: Moderate fixed time delay and moderate speed.
Car: No fixed time delay but slow speed.
In order for HSR to be effective it has to fit somewhere in the middle there between Airplanes and cars. If your city has no transit then that fixed time delay is increased because of all the time associated driving and parking at the station and then getting an uber at the other end. Plus these things all increase your costs.