2007年11月5日 星期一

Comparison between Airplane and HSR

Transportations in Taiwan are getting improved and have made a lot of changes which are different from the past. To compare these two main transportations which are the most convenient and fastest, but are completely different style, is the issue that people in Taiwan usually like to talk about.

Suppose there is a person who would like to go to Kaohsiung from Taipei, there are many different ways for him or her to choose to get there. In Taiwan, taking a bus or a train is the most common way that most people choose to travel between the north and the south. However, people in Taiwan nowadays have one more choice to select – High Speed Rail (HSR), which can be determined as the main and more convenient transportation than airplanes which were called the fastest transportation.

HSR has not only become a very convenient but also extremely fast transportation now, but it is a conveyance which is completely different from airplanes. Airplanes were considered as the only fastest transportation until the appearance of HSR. Although both transportations are quite different, they still have some similarities. For example, both of the two transportations are very safe, fast and efficient. In addition, both of them improve the over crowed traffic on high way effectively. Another similarity is that, it is expensive to take both kinds of transportations because both cost over a thousand dollars in one-way. On the other hand, it is obvious that they have a plenty of differences. For instance, an airliner has about 300-500 seats, but HSR has nearly 1000 seats. Moreover, the speed they travel is different, too. HSR travel with the speed of 300km per hour; however, an airliner moves with the speed about 500km per hour. Furthermore, an airliner needs a lot of energy, such as a great amount of Jet fuel so that it can maintain a longer flight; HSR, though, saves much more energy. It only relies on the electrification of the railway, and it doesn’t need any fuel material. Also, HSR could hardly cause noise pollution; in contrast, wherever a place is near an airport, it is always very noisy.

Taking an airliner is much faster than taking HSR, but is also takes times to run through the Customs of the airport. Nevertheless, taking HSR is a little bit cheaper than taking an airliner, and people don’t need to waste times to pass the station. However, some people don’t like to take HSR. They prefer taking an airliner even though it is more expensive than taking HSR. Because they think it’s not really safe to take HSR. Consequently, the appearance of HSR is just a beginning; people would learn to get used to it eventually, and figure out which kind of transportations is the one that fit them best.

For me, I would prefer taking HSR since I think it’s more convenient than taking an airplane and it’s cheaper. Perhaps, next time if I want to go to Taipei, I should check out HSR, and I think it will be interesting.

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