Brazilian Bullet Train: 320km/h and 17 million passengers a year

The japanese proposal for a Campinas > Sao Paulo > Rio de Janeiro bullet train will be presented today. Numbers show the train would do the entire trajectory in 104 minutes and the Sao Paulo > Rio connection in 80 minutes. In order to achieve these velocities the tracks must be within 0.4% perfectly straight from down to uphill sections in order to not jump off the tracks.

The japanese proposal is an informal presentation and is modelled after the Shinkansen and should ferry 3000 passengers per hour along the route, connecting the airports of Campinas: Viracopos, Sao Paulo: Guarulhos and Rio de Janeiro: Galeao.

French and german companies are also in the running for the construction of the high speed train that has already been approved and is waiting for financial and envornmental impact studies before serious proposals will be considered.