Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · 02/09/2025I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world: railmapper.netrailmapper.netRail MapperDesign and analyze high speed rail networks 28016
Reposted by Thijs NiksAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Pedestrian Observations: High-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator Applet pedestrianobservations.com/2025/08/31/h... @thijsniks.bsky.socialpedestrianobservations.comHigh-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator AppletThijs Niks made a web applet for calculating high-speed rail network ridership estimates. This is based on the gravity model that I’ve used to construct estimates. The applet lets one add gra… 2182
Reposted by Thijs NiksJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/08/2025I 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...umap.openstreetmap.fr#CrossChannelRail Corridors & Stations<h3>About</h3>Map of current and future long distance train routes through the Channel Tunnel. Corridors are in map layers, and icons indicate the different state of development of stations. Full back... 2193
Reposted by Thijs NiksJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/08/2025Also 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. 3374
Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · 11/08/2025@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...railmapper.netRail MapperDesign and analyze high speed rail networks 230
Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · 10/08/2025@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!railmapper.netRail MapperDesign and analyze high speed rail networks 4396
