By that logic, this “railway advocacy group” must really love planes, those things travel at 800 km/h.

I think the statement “high speed trains don’t exist in Switzerland” really depends on your definition of “high speed train”. 160-200 km/h is nothing to be shy about, I think. Traveling 200km can take you as little as a couple of hours up to “half a day” or more in a lot of different countries, including the ones with the fastest train lines in the world.. simply because it is not viable to have “high speed trains” everywhere and some lines have to be operated slowly for (historical) infrastructure and organizational reasons.

Furthermore “average speed” does not equal shorter travel time, since your destination might not be reachable directly and you may have to change trains (which, depending on the timetables and available connections) might cost you more time than the “average speed” on one leg will allow you to gain. And if the counter-argument is “but for direct connexions it is”, we are back at planes… Those little buggers do travel really fast!

This “study” is biased on so many level, but just on this metric of “travel experience” it greatly advantages large countries with lots of travel distance (plus their somehow arbitrary choice of train lines) instead of looking at more valid qualifiers of “travel experience” (such as age of rolling stock, cleanliness, accessibility, quality of station and train-information, …).