I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world: railmapper.net

Pedestrian Observations: High-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator Applet pedestrianobservations.com/2025/08/31/h... @thijsniks.bsky.social

I didn’t even consider Berlin (or Hamburg or Milano) in my research for #CrossChannelRail judging the trip times (all over 9 hours) to be too long Here are all the stations I did consider, assessed umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/cross...

Also anyone leading with the idea of London - Berlin direct trains can’t be taken seriously. If there are to be UK-Germany trains it’ll be to Köln and Frankfurt, as journey times to those are ok and - within reason - there’s terminal space. Berlin is too far, too remote, also has station headaches.

@nerd4cities.bsky.social I know you enjoy high speed rail modelling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgZ... For me, Alon Levy’s model was very useful: pedestrianobservations.com/2020/02/13/m... So I made a web version of it: railmapper.net And wrote about that here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@alonlevy.bsky.social I found your high speed rail model very useful: pedestrianobservations.com/2020/02/13/m... So I made a web tool: railmapper.net And wrote about how the tool works: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Would love to hear what you think!