EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (JR East) S 612 Operating 4,658 Line - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

JR East’s Shinkansen EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (JR East)

Narita Choshi Nikko Iwaki Aomori Akita Odate Higashi-Noshiro Hachinohe Morioka Kitakami Yokote Omagari Ishimaki Shinjo Koriyama Mito Niigata Naoetsu Nagaoka Nagano Matsumoto Shiojiri Atami Ito Kofu Hachioji Shin-Maebashi Omiya Yonezawa Aizuwakamatau Fukushima Kisarazu Tokyo Chiba Yamagata Sendai Ichinoseki Hanamaki Utsunomiya Oyama Takasaki

JR East’s Business Area

Oyama Toride Narita Ueno Tokyo Odawara Ito Atami Omiya Narita Airport Takao Mito Ome Chiba Yokohama

Greater Tokyo Area

Takasaki Ofuna

JR East’s Business Area

S：Shinkansen C：Conventional Lines (Fiscal year 2003) Operating Line (mile) 4,658 S： 612 C： 4,046

• No. of

Stations 1,697 S： 35 C： 1,662

• No. of Trains /

day 12,527 S： 307 C： 12,220 Passenger- mile (annual) 78.5 billion S： 11.7 C： 66.8 Revenue 17.25 billion USD S: 4.24 C: 13.01

100 mile

Shinkansen Conventional lines

Tohoku Shinkansen

Shinjo Niigata Yamagata Nagano Sendai Akita Morioka Fukushima Hachinohe Takasaki Omiya Ueno Tokyo

Joetsu Shinkansen Nagano Shinkansen Akita Shinkansen Yamagata Shinkansen

JR East’s Shinkansen Network

369 mile The numbers in the figure indicate the distance from Tokyo Station. 390 mile 253 mile 204 mile 188 mile 141 mile 0 mile

JR East’s Shinkansen Trains

E3 Series

Through-operation type

/ Through-operation on Shinkansen and conventional lines / Maximum operating speed: 172 mph on Shinkansen, 82 mph

• n conventional lines

E4 Series

Large volume transportation type

/ The double-deck trains. / Operation of 16-car configuration is possible by coupling two E4 Series 8-car configurations. The Seat capacity is 1,634, the largest in the world. E2 Series

Higher-speed type

/ Provides passengers with better service by cutting its travel time / Maximum operating speed: 172 mph / Low-noise train We have 6 types of Shinkansen trains, such as....

Coupling and Uncoupling Shinkansen Trains at Morioka Station (Akita Shinkansen)

(Section between Tokyo and Fukushima） / Series E2 and E3 are coupled / Maximum Operating speed: 150 mph

Coupling & Uncoupling

(Section between Yamagata and Fukushima) / Series E3 type are operated / Maximum Operating Speed: 82 mph

Tokyo Fukushima Yamagata Sendai

(At Fukushima station) / Passengers do not need to change trains. 369 mile 225 mile 0 mile

Coupling and Uncoupling Shinkansen Trains at a junction station

Coupling & Uncoupling

Los Angeles A junction station San Francisco Sacramento

Coupling and uncoupling

Train stopping time at station at the time of uncoupling 2.5 min.

at the time of coupling 1.5 min.

Coupling & Uncoupling system

Only a train driver and a conductor do this task

Coupling & Uncoupling for a short time

Niigata Nagano Akita Hachinohe Tokyo

Better Performance Allows for Higher Transportation Volume

Tokyo – Nagano (141 mile)

3 h 05 m

• 102 min

1 h 23 m

Tokyo – Hachinohe (369 mile)

4 h 03 m

• 67 min

2 h 56 m

Sendai Fukushima Morioka

Tokyo – Akita (390 mile)

5 h 06 m

• 77 min

3 h 49 m

Takasaki

Tokyo – Yamagata (225 mile)

3 h 23 m

• 53 min

2 h 30 m Travel time in 1987 Travel time in 2003

Yamagata

Trends o

• f Shares o
• f JR East and a

airlines （Be Before and after Shinkansen s service started) Shinkansen has an a advantage.

JR East Airlines

Aomori Akita Yamagata Tokyo

Tokyo - Yamagata (Yamagata Shinkansen) 24% 76% 1% 99%

1991 2003

Tokyo - Akita (Akita Shinkansen)

52% 48%

46% 54%

1996 2003 2002

46% 54%

Tokyo- Aomori ( Tohoku Shinkansen)

57% 43%

2003

Competition with Airlines

24% 76%

1% 99%

1991 2003

24% 76%

1% 99%

1991 2003

24% 76%

1% 99%

1991 2003