Trend · rank 224 of 250

Rail & mass transit expansion

Urban density and transport decarbonisation are driving investment in intercity rail and urban mass transit, and network reach and integration increasingly determine congestion, freight capacity and access to jobs.

Strategic InfrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resiliencemobilitycitiescarbon

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass, where it was Rail & mass transit investment. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
224of 250
Sensitivity
6.7rank 175
Breadth
0of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
14.8rank 225
Eigenvector
1.1
Betweenness
0.0
Links
6trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
9.6

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
98
Over a year
−11%Steady
Over three years
−12%
Peak
16024 Dec 2023
Sources
Bothagreement -0.02
Coverage
23languages · 61 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (23 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English46%103−2%
Russian9%119+2%
Japanese8%103+0%
German5%110−13%
Chinese4%135+17%
Spanish4%111−4%
French4%111−0%
Italian3%123+6%
Polish2%110−10%
Portuguese2%88−16%
Turkish2%102+10%
Persian2%83−11%
Arabic1%93−9%
Indonesian1%130+78%
Vietnamese1%109−1%
Ukrainian1%133+12%
Korean1%114+13%
Hebrew1%130+4%
Dutch1%122+16%
Malay1%168+53%
Thai1%119+13%
Swedish0%113−4%
Bengali0%145+34%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

Malta

Australia

Bangladesh

Singapore

Cyprus

Ireland

New Zealand

Estonia

United Kingdom

Malaysia

Netherlands

Latvia

100

55

48

48

28

25

23

20

19

18

18

17

The 12 highest of 61 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English103+15%−11%−5%
EuropeGoogle in 9 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish108+17%−8%+3%
ChinaGoogle in 1 country173+142%+67%+57%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 11 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Malay111+17%+4%+6%
South AsiaGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Bengali134+17%+34%+39%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew99−4%+2%0%
AfricaGoogle in 3 countries118+11%+24%+1%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese96+9%−9%−17%
Russia and EurasiaGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian183+43%+112%+63%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
ArgentinaGoogle91+24%−14%−14%
AustraliaGoogle87+20%−5%−31%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese92+7%−9%−23%
CanadaGoogle113+32%−9%+25%
ChinaGoogle173+142%+67%+57%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French113+25%−5%+5%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German118+18%+2%+20%
IndiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Bengali129+26%+24%+27%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian119+11%+36%+6%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian104+10%−11%−3%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese105+34%−2%−7%
South KoreaGoogle + Wikipedia in Korean102+48%−15%−6%
MexicoGoogle87+26%−21%−42%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian119+13%+3%+16%
Saudi ArabiaGoogle97−48%+145%+78%
South AfricaGoogle110+10%+11%+4%
TürkiyeGoogle + Wikipedia in Turkish101+16%−7%−0%
United KingdomGoogle108+18%−8%+2%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English101+15%−13%−9%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
2 · LowA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
2 · LowA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
1 · Very lowHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
1 · Very lowCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
3 · ModerateInfrastructure ageing & maintenance backlogEnergy, networks & climate resilience39
3 · ModerateUrban population concentrationEnergy, networks & climate resilience61
3 · ModerateRenewable generation expansionEnergy, networks & climate resilience128
3 · ModerateUrban cooling infrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resilience151
3 · ModerateSatellite connectivity expansionEnergy, networks & climate resilience167
3 · ModerateElectric transport & charging networksEnergy, networks & climate resilience211