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The Book

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Seven parts and 29 chapters. Every chapter can be read or heard.

Audiobook

The whole book read aloud, 4 hours 43 minutes.

Download the book

The full text as a PDF, 139 pages.

The seven parts

Part 1Why Travel?

Part 2The World as It Is

Part 3The Idea and the Vision

Part 4Building and Running the Network

Part 5Economics, Governance and Law

Part 6The Education and Culture of Travel

Part 7The Road Ahead
The Plan

The Plan

Five phases, from the first studies to the last branch line.

How It Works

Routes, technology, financing and governance.

Map & Roadmap

Three arteries, 33 branch lines, four sea crossings.

Documents

The executive summary and the concept paper.
Updates

News

Progress on the project, publications and events.

Questions & answers

Ask anything about the journey and get an answer from the book.

Videos

Talks, films and short explainers, with subtitles.
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Documents

Free to read, keep and share.

The complete book and the papers that set out the plan, free to download. Print them, take them to a meeting, pass them to someone who should read them.

The complete book

The Global Rail Network: A Road for All Humanity

All seven parts and twenty-nine chapters in one file, from why we travel to how a network for every nation could be built, owned and governed.

PDF
139 pages
1.7 MB
English edition 2

The plan on paper

Papers for decision-makers.

Shorter documents drawn from the book, for readers who need the essentials: the phases, the routes, the money and who decides.

Overview

Executive Summary

The plan in twelve pages: five phases, three main arteries, the financing model and the governance bodies.

PDF · 12 pages · 222 KB

In depth

Concept Paper

Technical principles, routes and costs, how profits are shared, and how the network’s councils would work.

PDF · 25 pages · 282 KB

Map

The network from the North Pole

The three arteries and four sea crossings on one sheet, drawn from above the pole so every continent is seen at once.

PDF · A4 landscape · 329 KB

Citing and sharing

Use it in your own work.

How to cite the book

Rahmani, Kianosh. The Global Rail Network: A Road for All Humanity. English edition 2. 2026. grn.site.

Link to this page rather than to a file, so readers always find the newest edition.
Figures are first estimates. Costs, distances and times are drawn from real projects and will be refined by a feasibility study.
Translations of the book into Persian, Arabic and Urdu can be downloaded from the Persian, Arabic and Urdu versions of this page.

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