beautifulplanet
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in order to improve ridership numbers on high speed rail systems, it seems that offering a lot of passenger amenities and increasing comfort is helpful, still at the same time to also offer an aesthetically pleasing experience.
While the only existing US high-speed rail trainsets (Acela Express) at least doesn't have benches, like some new commuter rail cars, but individual seats, and while that it obviously seems to be superior in comfort compared to US commuter rail systems, still it seems to many that they don't feature a very attractive design. While of course they were designed and built mostly still in the 1990s, and design concepts also advanced in the meantime, there is hope that future US high-speed rail trainsets (Acela, possibly California High-Speed Rail, Texas Central Railroad) will pay more attention to their respective trainsets' design.
Here is an impression of the existing US high-speed rail trainsets.
Acela Express exterior:
source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Acela_Express_at_Union_Station_-_NewHaven.jpg
Acela Express interior:
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_express
In comparison, the existing high-speed rail services Italo, ICE and TGV (in the next posts).
in order to improve ridership numbers on high speed rail systems, it seems that offering a lot of passenger amenities and increasing comfort is helpful, still at the same time to also offer an aesthetically pleasing experience.
While the only existing US high-speed rail trainsets (Acela Express) at least doesn't have benches, like some new commuter rail cars, but individual seats, and while that it obviously seems to be superior in comfort compared to US commuter rail systems, still it seems to many that they don't feature a very attractive design. While of course they were designed and built mostly still in the 1990s, and design concepts also advanced in the meantime, there is hope that future US high-speed rail trainsets (Acela, possibly California High-Speed Rail, Texas Central Railroad) will pay more attention to their respective trainsets' design.
Here is an impression of the existing US high-speed rail trainsets.
Acela Express exterior:
source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Acela_Express_at_Union_Station_-_NewHaven.jpg
Acela Express interior:
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_express
In comparison, the existing high-speed rail services Italo, ICE and TGV (in the next posts).