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Transport in Japan Bullet v budget 日本的交通 票战vs站票 Can low-cost airlines beat bullet trains? 低成本航空公司能击败子弹头列车吗? THE world s busiest train route, and one of the busiest air routes, is between Tokyo andOsaka, Japan s two biggest metropolitan areas. 世界上最繁忙的铁路线和最繁忙的航线之一连接着日本最大的两个大都市区东京和大阪。 这样一条通道在1964年见证了如日本子弹头列车一样出名的新干线系统的诞生。 They whizz 120,000 passengers a day smoothly from one place to another, on trains thatleave every ten minutes. 每10分钟一班，该系统一天之内可以快速且流畅得将120,000名乘客送抵各自的目的地。 Although humans, not robots, are at the controls, the average delay is a miraculous 36seconds. 虽然该系统由人而非机器控制，却可以将平均延迟时间控制在令人不可思议的36秒内。 To take all those passengers by air would require 667 aircraft, each with 180 seats, or fivetimes Japan s fleet of Boeing 737s, estimates Macquarie, an investment bank. 据一家叫做麦格理的投资银行估算，如果上述乘客改乘飞机，则需动用667架180座的客机，5倍于整个日本的波音737保有量。 | 
