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And how many passengers are on those 10h+ train rides that you compare to?

Because your entire point is that most passengers in Switzerland travels on those short distances. How are the riders distributed in Germany?

Esspecially pro enviroment prefer such rides (but air lines are much cheaper, I only took a train from Munich to Hamburg)

I think people in general choose the most efficient mode of transport.

Efficient for what metric? Carbon emissions? Time? Money?

Time/Money.