[jesuschroist]

> A rail line would never dare have two high speed trains that close to each other.

Maybe not every minute, but the bullet train runs every 10 minutes during peak hour with up to 1300 passengers. I don't think that capacity is adequate for measuring 'faster' here.

[sandworm101]

1300 every 10 minutes = 130 people per minute. A normal 2-lane road can achieve better using buses.

[Gibbon1]

You only get at most about 1500 cars per hour per lane. Or 25 cars per minute.

[sandworm101]

That's why I said buses. This issue has been studied many many times. The dirty secret is that dedicated 'bus only' lanes, with lots of full buses using them, move more people across a point per minute than most any other ground option.

100 people per (large) bus at 10 busses per minute = 1000 persons per minute. That rivals a runway full of a380s for shear people-moving power.

[melling]

How long does it take to get 100 people in a bus?

China is building driverless low-medium speed maglevs:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...

I’d like to see one of your studies to see the assumptions.

60 mph buses don’t really seem like a great way to travel.

[melling]

China carried 10 billion people by high-speed rail last year.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149608.shtml