Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Zhenhua Chen was featured in “Planes, Trains And Climate Change,” an article in Forbes.

“While all modes of transportation, including high-speed rail, experience constraints under certain severe conditions, such as hurricanes prompting temporary cessation of non-essential transportation, aircraft are considerably more susceptible to adverse weather conditions due to their inherent operational characteristics,” Chen wrote. “High-speed trains operate close to the ground along a fixed guideway, while aircraft navigate the vast, unpredictable, and turbulent atmosphere.”

High-speed trains aren’t a solution for coast-to-coast travel or an alternative to trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific flights. Still, since they aren’t as impacted by rain, wind, heat and cold, they could provide more stability for many U.S. transportation corridors, Chen said.

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