{"id":115971,"date":"2021-11-10T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=115971"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:48:32","slug":"high-speed-trains-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/high-speed-trains-world","title":{"rendered":"High-speed trains have the wind in their sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the International Union of Railways (UIC), <strong>in 2020, there will be just over 56,000 km of high-speed rail lines worldwide<\/strong>. The UIC defines high speed as trains travelling at least 250 km\/h on new lines and 200 km\/h on existing lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asia accounts for almost three-quarters of the existing network<\/strong>. But it is true that the only <strong>China accounts for 67.6% of the world's high-speed rail network<\/strong>. <strong>Twenty-one countries or territories<\/strong> can claim to have a high-speed rail network according to the UIC's 2020 statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority are concentrated in Europe (13 countries) and Asia (7 countries including the Near and Middle East). <strong>Laos<\/strong> <strong>is the latest to join the club<\/strong> with the opening of a high-speed line in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be many more in the coming years. The UIC has identified concrete projects for the construction of networks in <strong>five new countries in Europe (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Serbia)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <strong>Russia<\/strong>the performance of the Sapsan high-speed train, connecting <strong>Moscow to St Petersburg or Nizhny Novgorod<\/strong>These are slightly lower than the official UIC definition. While the trains can reach a top speed of 230 kph, they average 180 kph, linking the country's main cities in 3 hours 40 minutes. However, a modernisation project should enable trains to travel at speeds of up to 350 km\/h, reducing the journey time between the two Russian metropolises to just over two hours. The journey between St Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod will take less than 3.5 hours. Entry into service scheduled for around 2024, according to the UIC. Note that a high-speed train also links <strong>Saint Petersburg to Helsinki in 3.5 hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/emirats-train-a-grande-vitesse-20250218.html\/\" data-id=\"192375\">The Emirates want a high-speed train between Abu Dhabi and Dubai<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-la-chine-derriere-de-nombreux-projets-de-grande-vitesse\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">China behind numerous high-speed rail projects<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Asia, India, Indonesia and Thailand are also developing high-speed networks, generally with Chinese or Japanese expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Africa and the Middle East, the<strong>Egypt<\/strong> launched the construction of a railway line in partnership with Germany for the <strong>Cairo-Alexandria<\/strong>. The first part of the section is scheduled to open in 2023, while the entire 650 km of line is scheduled to open in 2027. <strong>Another major project is taking place in Iran<\/strong> a<strong>irst line linking Tehran to Isfahan, a distance of 450 km<\/strong>. The work should enable the line to open soon, in 2022 or 2023. A second line is also under construction between Arak and Qom, totalling 1,336 km. Both projects are being carried out in conjunction with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other projects in the pipeline<strong> in Brazil, Canada, between Doha (Qatar) and Manama (Bahrain) or Mexico<\/strong>. Not to mention <strong>development projects<\/strong> of existing networks in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Turkey. Two major projects are the Bordeaux-Toulouse-Dax high-speed line in France and the Berlin-Prague line via Dresden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UIC, the high-speed rail network should grow to more than 76,500 km of track by the end of the decade. Europe should see an additional 2,400 km of high-speed trains. So high-speed rail does have a future, even if, paradoxically, projects can sometimes come to fruition at a snail's pace!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2-1024x672-derived.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2-1024x672-derived.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2-300x197-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2-768x504-derived.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bild2.jpg 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>(Source: UIC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High-speed networks by country in 2020 (km)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\"><strong>Country or territory<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\"><strong>High-speed lines in service<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\"><strong>Lines under construction<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>China<\/td><td>37 938<\/td><td>14 925<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Spain<\/td><td>3 487<\/td><td>1 135<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Japan<\/td><td>3 041<\/td><td>688<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>France<\/td><td>2 735<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Germany<\/td><td>1 571<\/td><td>147<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Finland<\/td><td>1 120<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Italy<\/td><td>921<\/td><td>327<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South Korea<\/td><td>893<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sweden<\/td><td>860<\/td><td>214<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>United States<\/td><td>735<\/td><td>563<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Turkey<\/td><td>724<\/td><td>1 743<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Saudi Arabia<\/td><td>449<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Taiwan<\/td><td>345<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Austria<\/td><td>254<\/td><td>281<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Poland<\/td><td>224<\/td><td>805<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Belgium<\/td><td>209<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Morocco<\/td><td>186<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Switzerland<\/td><td>178<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>113<\/td><td>225<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Netherlands<\/td><td>90<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Denmark<\/td><td>56<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source: UIC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/un-super-train-a-grande-vitesse-pour-la-chine-20210728.html\/\" data-id=\"112247\">A super high-speed train for China<\/a><\/p><\/aside>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">Article 1 of 5 in this dossier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/destination\/dossier-the-adventures-of-high-speed-rail-around-the-world\" class=\"series-2291\" title=\"Special report: the adventures of high-speed rail around the world\">Special report: the adventures of high-speed rail around the world<\/a><\/div><p>High-speed rail is becoming an increasingly important part of people's lives. This is particularly true in the European Union, Japan and China. Elsewhere, significant progress has been made in the United States and Latin America. In Africa and the Middle East, only Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Morocco belong to the club of HSR nations. But projects abound everywhere, waiting to be realised!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":116093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[2167,2289],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-115971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ferroviaire","tag-rail","tag-trains-a-grande-vitesse","series-dossier-les-aventures-du-rail-a-grande-vitesse-dans-le-monde","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>La grande vitesse ferroviaire gagne toute la plan\u00e8te<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Les trains \u00e0 grande vitesse vont de plus en plus constituer une alternative aux autres modes de transport. 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