The benchmark fare for high-speed rail tickets is more than 40 cents a kilometer. The benchmark fare for bullet train tickets is 30 cents per kilometer. So you will think that the high-speed rail fare is much more expensive than the train ticket with the same seat.

The maximum running speed of high-speed rail is 300km/h, and the maximum running speed of motor train is 200km/h or 250 km/h, so theoretically, high-speed rail is much faster, especially in the case of long distance.

Sometimes the same starting point and end point appear, and the speed of high-speed rail and bullet train is similar. There are two possibilities:

(1) The running line of the high-speed railway is relatively long, that is, the running mileage is longer than that of the moving train. For example, from Xiamen North Station to Changsha South Station, D2608 takes the direction of Sanming, Fuzhou and Nanchang, and the whole journey takes 7 hours 15 minutes, while G 1688 takes the direction of Fuzhou, Wuyishan, Shangrao and Nanchang, and the whole journey takes1kloc-0. High-speed rail is not as cost-effective as moving train.

(2) There are many high-speed rail stops. Generally speaking, adding an intermediate station will increase the train running time by about 7 minutes. For example, Xiamen goes north to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, and the high-speed train goes in the direction of Fuzhou, Wuyishan, Shangrao and Jinhua. The slowest train is G 1654, which takes 6 hours and 52 minutes, and the second-class seat is 449 yuan, while the fastest moving and sleeping train D908 goes to Fuzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, with a distance of 24 kilometers, which takes 7 hours and 23 minutes and the second-class seat is 328 yuan. It's because G 1654 stops 16, while D908 stops at a hangzhou east railway station. Save a lot of parking time.