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| | High-Speed Transport - a Necessity |
 | | The testing of the lines with conventional trains operating with the 220 km/h speed has started on August 19, and on September 6, the Thalys train was performing the first tests on the new route at 330 km/h, with 10%over the service maximal speed. |
 | | This fact is first of all due to the advantages of the railways in comparison to the other modes of transport, mainly in comparison to the road and air transport, with respect to the environment protection. |
 | | All these regulations will create hierarchies in the transport services on three areas: short routes (up to 80-100 km), where the supremacy belongs to the road transport, average routes (100-800 km), dominated by the railway transport, and the long routes (over 1000 km), where the air transport predominates. |
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