TÅkaidÅ Shinkansen
The Tōkaidō Shinkansen (Japanese东海 道 新 干线), named after the historic highway Tōkaidō, is a 515.4 km long, standard gauge Japanese high-speed railway route of the railway company JR Central, between the stations Tōkyō ( Tōkyō ) and Shin- Osaka ( Osaka ).
With more than 400,000 passengers per working day shall be deemed the most heavily loaded high speed line in the world.
History
The operation of recording the track took place on October 1, 1964, before the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo. She was the first line of the Shinkansen system and with a cruising speed of 200 km / h ( as of October 1965: 210 km / h ), the first route for the high-speed railway traffic ( scheduled journey speed over 200 km / h) world.
With Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya, the route connecting the four largest cities in Japan. In the Tokyo area between three stations are served by the Tokaido Shinkansen: Tokyo, Shinagawa and Shin- Yokohama. Along the route there are a total of 16 stations which are served as required.
The high-speed network has been extended by the San'yo Shinkansen in March 1972 to Okayama (171 km) and 1975 to Hakata ( 393 km ).
1971 reversed around 100 trains per day in each direction on the track. In March 1972, a computer-based train monitoring was put into operation. On March 14, 1992 JR Central started with the Nozomi a third rail service on the line. With two pairs of trains a day initially, the new features of the 300 series wrong with a top speed of 270 km / h The travel time on the 515- km route could thus be reduced to two and a half hours. Other units of the 300 series complemented in the following months, the Nozomi and the eight Hikari and Kodama trains three.
For operation admission wrong 60 trains per day on the route. In July 1967, the mark of 100 million passengers was reached. In the late 1980s reversed 250 trains per day on track, with more than 100 million passengers per year. The share of the modal split on the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka connection was at this time at 85 percent. A study in the early 1990s showed that 55 percent of traffic from other railway lines on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen went over. From aviation and 23 percent of buses and cars a total of 16 percent had been transferred to the new line. Six percent of the traffic which are new. Air services between Nagoya and Tokyo was discontinued after opening of the line. 132 million passengers used the Tokaido Shinkansen in 2002.
Since the timetable change in October 2003, the maximum speed of all three types of train ( Nozomi, Hikari, Kodama ) is uniformly 270 km / h Since March 2008, the Nozomi trains run 6:50 to 10:10 clock and 16:30 to 19:30 (each departure Tokyo) at ten- minute intervals between Tokyo and Osaka. The regular travel time between Tokyo and Osaka is around 155 minutes. The fastest trains running in days remoteness, trains between Tokyo and Osaka achieve this a driving time of 145 minutes ( 213.2 km / h travel speed). The fastest train (N 1, between 6:00 clock Tokyo ) defines the 1069 km long total distance between Tokyo and Hakata in 290 minutes back ( 221.2 km / h travel speed).
As an operational hindrance the branch speeds are of only 70 km / h on the intermediate stations, which are used by slower trains for overhaul by fast trains.
Between Tokyo and Osaka 240 departures are offered daily. The flight range is 114 flights. The market share of rail ( compared to air traffic ) in 2005 was 81 percent, in 2008 still at 80 percent. Between Tokyo and Okayama ( 676.3 km ), the market share of rail in 2008 at 61 % (2005: 57%), between Tokyo and Hiroshima ( 821.2 km ) at 54 % (2005: 47% ) and between Tokyo and Fukuoka at 8 % (2005: 9%).
In fiscal year 2003, the delay was only 0.1 minutes / train, showed natural disasters included an investigation of the causes of delay for delays of more than ten minutes in the first five years of operation, that 52 per cent and on disorders of the signaling systems, 36 percent to overhead line faults 12 percent was due to lower work -related problems.