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/əˈsɛlə/
ə-sel-ə
(colloquially abbreviated to acela)
(“acceleration?”)
(“excellence?”)
(“both?”)
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*born ‘9 march 1999’*
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(the acela (express) is amtrak’s ‘flagship service’ along the ‘northeast corridor’ (NEC) in the ‘northeastern united states’ between ‘washington DC’ + ‘boston’ via 14 ‘inter-mediate stops’ including…)
‘baltimore’
‘philadelphia’
‘new york city’
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The route contains segments of high-speed rail, and Acela Express trains are the fastest trainsets in the Americas; they attain 150 mph (240 km/h) on 28 miles (45 km) of the route.
Acela trains use tilting technology, which helps control lateral centrifugal forces, allowing the train to travel at higher speeds on the sharply curved NEC without disturbing passengers.
Acela operates along routes that are also used by freight and slower regional passenger traffic, and only reaches the maximum allowed speed of the tracks along some sections, with the fastest peak speed along segments between Mansfield, Massachusetts and Richmond, Rhode Island.
The high-speed operation occurs mostly along the 226-mile (364 km) route from New York’s Penn Station to Washington DC’s Union Station, with a fastest scheduled time of 2 hours and 45 minutes and an average speed of 82 mph (132 km/h), including time spent at intermediate stops.
Over this route, Acela and the Northeast Regional line captured a 75% share of air/train commuters between New York and Washington in 2011, up from 37% in 2000.
Due to this competition, one airline canceled service between Washington and New York.
On other portions Acela is limited by both traffic and infrastructure.
On the 231-mile (372 km) section from Boston’s South Station to New York’s Penn Station, the scheduled time is 3 hours and 40 minutes, or an average speed of 63 miles per hour (101 km/h).
Along this section, Acela has still captured 54% share of the combined train and air market.
(the entire 457-mile (735 km) route from Boston to Washington takes 7 hours, at an average of around 65 miles per hour (105 km/h))
(‘Acela’ carried more than 3.4 million passengers in fiscal year 2015; second only to the slower and cheaper Northeast Regional, which had over 8 million passengers in FY 2015)
Its 2015 revenue of $585 million was 25% of Amtrak’s total.
(Another 25% came from Northeast Regional traffic, and roughly 25% each for long-distance trains and state-supported corridor services throughout the rest of the country)
The present Acela Express equipment will be replaced by new Avelia Liberty trainsets beginning in 2021, with all current trains to retire by the end of 2022.
The new trainsets, manufactured by Alstom, will have 30% higher seating capacity than the current trains.
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*the new fleet will have 28 trains versus the current 20, allowing for hourly nyc-boston service all day + half-hourly ‘nyc / washington service’ at ‘peak hours’*
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