The share of routes that can be travelled by train in less than 6 hours in 2021 is 34% for the top-150 list and 29% for the top-250 list.3 The proportion of short-haul flight routes coming with a train alternative under 6 hours is even higher for the most popular routes in France and Germany, while it is significantly lower for all the other focus countries of this report, with the top intra-EU ro. [...] Night trains (either direct or connecting ones) are available for journeys on the majority of the routes in the top-150 and top-250 lists as well as on the top routes for each of the focus countries, except for the Netherlands and France. [...] Among the focus countries, France, Spain and Belgium were the countries where the average speed of journeys on the top routes was the highest in 2019, while Austria and the Netherlands presented the lowest values. [...] 27 Train alternatives to short-haul flights in Europe OBC Transeuropa • 2021 Train alternatives to short-haul flights in 2021 In general terms, the situation of train services in Europe in 2021 is worse than in 2019, mostly because of the cancellation of some services in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. [...] The higher the number of transfers, the lower the average speed of the journey.
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