High Speed Rail & SHINKANSEN Nobukazu NAGAI Railway Bureau, MLIT May 11, 2015
Topics 1. Why high speed rail (HSR) is preferred 2. Japan s experience in HSR project 3. HSR era has come to Sweden 4. JOIN Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development 1
1. Why HSR is preferred? Automobile Airplane Bus High Speed Rail (HSR) 2
How safe is HSR? 0 fatalities for 50 years 1964 2014 12 fatalities per day in Japan in 2013 3
How fast is HSR? Airplane 900km/h SHINKANSEN (Series E5) 320km/h SJ2000 200km/h Automobile/Bus 105-120km/h 4
How comfortable and reliable is HSR? Comfortable Comparison of seat pitch in ordinary class Reliable Number of suspensions/delays per day in Japan SHINKANSEN 0.25 1,040mm trains /day FY2013 Airplane 180 790mm flights /day FY2013 5
Functions Supported by Advanced Technologies Snow Removing Technologies Noise Control Technologies Sprinkler Pantograph noise barrier noise barrier Panel Heater 6
How Frequency is HSR? Operating frequency (at peak time) TOKYO 15 Trains / hour 2 Airplanes / hour OSAKA 7
How many people can HSR accommodate? Airplane (B777-300) SHINKANSEN (Series E5) SJ2000 Automobile/Bus 50 seats 310 seats (6 cars unit ) 500 seats 731 seats (10 cars) Maximum number of seats of E4 series,which consists of 16 bi-level cars, is 1,634. 8
High Speed Rail is SAFE FAST COMFORTABLE& RELIABLE MASS TRANSPORTATION 9
Distance to provide high performance of HSR HSR has a strong point of medium-range(500~600km) Tokyo Nagoya 71% 5% 23% Railway Bus Tokyo Osaka 77% 19% 4% Airplane Car Tokyo Okayama 64% 34% 2% Tokyo Fukuoka 9% 90% Source: Inter-Regional Passenger Mobility Survey FY 2007 1% Tokyo 0km Nagoya 366km Osaka 553km Okayama 733km Fukuoka 1,175km Jönköping 320km Göteborg 470km Stockholm 0km Linköping 200km Borås 410km Malmö 610km 10
Environmental Friendly of HSR 7.5 5 : : 1 Automobile Airplane Shinkansen CO2 Emissions comparison g-co2/person-km 11
2. Japan s experience in HSR project SHINKANSEN network Total length in operation : 2,630 km Sapporo Shin-Hakodate Shin-Aomori Sanyo Shinkansen (554 km) Joetsu Shinkansen (270 km) Hokuriku Shinkansen (345 km) Kanazawa Hakata Tsuruga Takeo-Onsen Okayama Shin-Osaka Nagasaki Shin-Yatsushiro Niigata Nagano Takasaki Omiya Nagoya Tokyo Tokaido Shinkansen (515 km) Hachinohe Morioka Tohoku Shinkansen (675 km) Sendai Kyushu Shinkansen (257 km) Kagoshima-Chuo 12
Passengers (million) 400 350 300 250 200 150 Economic Effects of the Shinkansen Kyushu Hokuriku Joetsu Tohoku Tokaido&Sanyo GDP Shinkansen passengers & GDP GDP (trillion JPY) 500 400 300 200 100 50 Steadily Increasing 100 0 0 1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009(year) 13
Regional Development Creating New City Area with Shinkansen Opening Before Area around Sakudaira Station (before Shinkansen Opening) Planned Station After Area around Sakudaira Station (10years after Shinkansen opening) Population 7.2% 佐久平駅 Sakudaira St. Passenger 70% Asset tax revenue 123 times Hokuriku Shinkansen 14
3. HSR era has come to Sweden HSR will : (1) expand business opportunities (2) activate consumption (3) expand commutable area HSR station will : (1) become a new transit hub (2) have in-station retailing business (3) become a new city center Anaheim San Diego 15
Project start Japan s possible contribution We are well experienced in HSR project as the SHINKANSEN has 50 years history. Construction start Operation start Examining Feasibility Construction Operation Design Manufacturing Maintenance Financing Education & Training Management 16
4.JOIN Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development Why was JOIN established? <Government Priority Policy> To promote the export of Japan s infrastructure system in the overseas markets Infrastructure-related Export Target 10 Trillion yen (2010) 30 Trillion yen (2020) (Ministerial Council for Overseas Infrastructure Development) JICA JBIC NEXI J-Company Banks Cooperation JOIN J-Company Loan / Equity / T.A. / Master Plan / Policy Advice Equity / O & M / Management / H.R. Development Japan s contribution to infrastructure projects in overseas countries will lead to mutual economic growth 17
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