Fig 1.
HSR network in China completed at the end of 2014 (reprinted courtesy China Railways Corp).
Fig 2.
The great-circle distance between origin and destination.
Table 1.
Stations equipped with EMUDs.
Fig 3.
High-speed railway lines served by Wuchang Railway Station.
Fig 4.
High-speed railway lines served by Hankou Railway station.
Table 2.
Circuity of each high-speed railway line investigated in this paper (in descending order).
Fig 5.
Relationship between path length and circuity of any two points on each high-speed railway line.
Fig 6.
Relationship between path length and circuity of path between any two points on the operated train path.
Fig 7.
Illustration of the 51 center passenger transit corridors.
Fig 8.
Illustration of the shortest and nonshortest paths of three point pairs in China’s high-speed rail network.
Table 3.
Cases in China for which the paths of trains are not the shortest during practical operation.
Fig 9.
Relationship between length of the shortest path and circuity of any two points on the network.
Fig 10.
Path from Yuncheng North Railway Station to Sanmenxia South Railway Station and circuity analysis.
Fig 11.
Path from Wuhan Railway Station to Jiujiang Railway Station and circuity analysis.
Fig 12.
Path from Wuzhou South Railway Station to Shenzhen North Railway Station and circuity analysis.
Fig 13.
Path from Dazhou Railway Station to Baoji South Railway Station and circuity analysis.
Fig 14.
Planned network of high-speed rail in China.
Fig 15.
Relationship between path length and circuity of any two points in the planned network (see Fig 14).