{"id":25971,"date":"2023-02-20T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2023-02-20T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:35:11","slug":"trains-marginal-costs-for-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25971","title":{"rendered":"Trains, marginal costs, for Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>when costing something like high speed rail, how do you account for the 1 more km? like the differencve between 100km of hsr, and 500km? with all the sations and infra in place, when cost fore those 400 kms? and is the &#8220;marginal cost&#8221; of a thing, the cost to make the last unit (or is it one more i=unit0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is there a formula: 1B$ for 100km of HSR + 1M$ for every km after that (and assuming those 1kms are simple track; additional costs for bridges, tunnels, or other costs specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>was reading this thread of Fark, wanted to respond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12761102\/159417488#c159417488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-1034x1536.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-750x1115.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-1226x1822.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not-675x1003.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/map-usa-vs-europe-high-speed-rail-why-not.jpg 1323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m guessing the population desnity is really the thing.  those european countires likely add up to way more than the large cities covered here.  but if you move that oberly east &amp; south to texas, lots more large cities with lots of space betwween them.<br>also, what is name of the scenic train from to to vancouver?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when costing something like high speed rail, how do you account for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,140,170],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-paul","tag-trains","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}