This is pure green washing, the guy wants to make money with his "alternative" product.
Obviously transportation as a whole emits a lot of CO2. But not so much the infrastructure, since that lasts a long time, so even high initial emissions are quickly irrelevant compared to the emissions of using the infrastructure. Rails, being electric a lot and with low friction, are the best case(?) scenario "against" this. I would still assume that due to the decades of use that the initial upfront CO2 of making railways is somewhat irrelevant.
This is pure green washing, the guy wants to make money with his "alternative" product.
Obviously transportation as a whole emits a lot of CO2. But not so much the infrastructure, since that lasts a long time, so even high initial emissions are quickly irrelevant compared to the emissions of using the infrastructure. Rails, being electric a lot and with low friction, are the best case(?) scenario "against" this. I would still assume that due to the decades of use that the initial upfront CO2 of making railways is somewhat irrelevant.