From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
Newsgroups: tx.general
Subject: Re: High Speed Rail
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:28:27 GMT
Reply-To: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com
Distribution: tx
Organization: IBM, Austin, TX. US of A.

In article <1992Nov11.004738.26306@radian.uucp>, markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
|> Ummmm, you missed the main trick. WHERE are the (for example) Dallas or
|> Houston airports? Where are *most* airports? WAY the hell out of town
|> (nobody wants to be on the flight path.). Where are most train stations?
|> Right in the middle of town. So, let's add 30 min to 2 hr *travel time to
|> get to the damn *gate*, or to your *actual* destination. NOW what's the
|> travel time? Less for rail. 
|> 
|> I've seen this kind of crap from the airlines before. Haven't you?
|> 
|> 	mark
	
	You missed the original post, so here it is again. For the questions
	you ASSUME the train station is right below the Airport.
	-dewey
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	On the flight back from Oklahoma City via Dallas(I'll tell you
	what, I may not know how to get to Heaven or Hell, but I can 
	guarantee you, there is a layover in Dallas). I was handed a
	"Travel Survey" by a Market research company, clearly trying
	to ascertain the Public's tolerance for High Speed rail fares.

	One question was especially interesting:

	#17
	For your one-way trip today from DFW to another Texas vity, suppose
	you had two ways to travel. You could either take an "airplane",
	just like you are doing now, or else you could transfer to a "high
	speed rail train" that would depart from a station beneath this 
	air terminal. High speed rail would provide a fast train service,
	based on a type of train that has been used in France for over 
	ten years.


	Imagine that each of the four boxes below describes a different
	way of making today's trip. Choose the one you would most prefer
	and write "1" in the box next to it. Then write "2", "3" and "4"
	in turn for your second, third and last choices.

	As you make your choices, please think about all of the information
	you've been given for each of the four possibilities. Assume
	that, except for the differences shown in the boxes, all other 
	aspects of your trip are the same as for your current trip.
	In particular, your checked bags would be handled the same as
	when you transfer between airplanes; you would check them in	
	for your first flight and pick them up at your destination station.

	+--------------------------+          +-------------------------+
	AIR					HIGH SPEED RAIL

	Terminal to Terminal Time		Station to station time
	 15 minutes more than your		 30 minutes more than
	 present trip.				 your present trip.

	FREQUENCY		    [  ]	FREQUENCY		[  ]
	 departs every hour.			 departs every hour.			
	+--------------------------+          +-------------------------+


	+--------------------------+          +-------------------------+
	HIGH SPEED RAIL			        AIR
	Station to station time.		Terminal to terminal time

	 60 minutes more than your		 same travel time as
	 present trip.				 your present trip.

	FREQUENCY		    [  ]	FREQUENCY		[  ]
	 departs every half hour.		 departs every 2 hour.			
	+--------------------------+          +-------------------------+
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