Induced demand happens for every part of the transportation system, but to a lesser extent because the other parts of the transportation system are generally priced. It has been shown that induced demand is less for toll roads, which actually price the roads rather than providing them for free...
That would be very surprising because traffic designers have been talking about how building more road capacity does nothing for congestion for decades, at least since the 60s.
These modelling studies essentially assume traffic will increase massively, say "build the road and you'll be able to...
The problem is that all Eng-Scot-Ireland flags are pretty horrible, and even worse if Wales is integrated. I'm semi-convinced it's not possible to integrate all 3 or 4 flags together like that, I've never seen one that did it successfully. It might be better to go with a design that isn't just a...
Another thread mentioned countless missed opportunities economy-wise for Britain in the years after WW2. I would be interested in hearing what the members of this forum consider those to be, and how they might best have been taken advantage of?
Ignoring the ideological squabbles about capitalism and focusing on the question, European colonialism wasn't inevitable. I suspect the large interest in it was engendered by the massive riches Spain managed to obtain from the gold and silver mines, but this wasn't exactly inevitable and relied...
Eh. The ToV is massively overhyped, the majority of the reparations weren't intended to be repaid anyway but were more to have a politically palatable number to parade in the newspapers. The Germans heard this and went "This is a great propaganda opportunity." Even then, the rise of the Nazis...
The problems for the Germans in Russia was logistics. Very slightly more supplies isn't going to suddenly give them the better logistics to get those supplies to where they're needed.
I don't think anything in history is really inevitable. The course of history is incredibly path dependent, and even situations that favour particular results don't mandate them happening. I think we have a tendency to assume things are inevitable because the brain is a sense-making machine, and...
Yes, but this is an alternate history site and this thread is specifically an AHC asking how it the US might have had HSR. The path actually taken shows what not to do, I believe the OP wants to know how it could have been different.
Since it's looking likely that any attack by Rommel in North Africa ITL will be thrown back, or at the very least not achieve the spectacular success as OTL, I think it is likely he won't get a particularly good reputation. OTL a large part of his reputation was made because he experienced...
I'm not going to reiterate arguments, since my previous experience convinced me that a lot of those in this thread have absolutely no willingness to be convinced, and I'm tired of people taking singular aspects of my arguments to dismiss the whole.
Another opportunity for better transit that...
A HSR does have impact on every part of the country, it has impacts on every part of the globe. It reduces emissions by allowing people not to drive or fly when not necessary, which impacts literally everyone. By reducing the need for cars, it reduces peoples need to use the expensive transport...
Regarding construction costs, as I said recently the USA (and the UK too unfortunately) seems to be really good at spending twice as much to get half as much as other countries do. I'm not really sure why. I quoted France building 400 km for estimated €12 billion, that's supposed to be...
That's 114 million trips that weren't done by car or plane, and it's likely increased since 2010. Also, that's like saying only 300,000 people drive/fly 500 miles in a day compared to 60 million people in the country, well yeah...? Do you believe the entire population of France are supposed to...
People would use it to commute, just like they use roads to commute. They'd use it for business trips, or trips home, or whatever. There are countless reasons people go on trips. Pretending that no-one would use it is bizarre, it's not like the plans are to build it in the middle of nowhere, the...