High Speed Rails
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Place a powered rail on a boost block (redstone block) to build high-speed rail. Place on any other block to get a regular powered rail.
High-speed rails are by 4x faster than regular powered rails, ie. 32 m/s, or 115 km/h. This is as fast as rocket-powered elytra flight.
These are our recommendations for building efficient high-speed tracks:
Allow room for acceleration: it takes a while to reach top speed. Place several high-speed rail sections close together at the start of your track.
Minimize the number of turns: you only need at most one turn to get to any destination. An optimal track looks like an L from above.
Minimize the number of slopes: build tunnels, bridges, etc. to stay on the same level.
Before turns and slopes, put one (or sometimes a couple of) regular powered rails to slow down and avoid derailment.
After turns and slopes, allow room for acceleration again.
To maintain high speeds you must of course build your tracks out of high-speed rails because regular powered rails will slow you down. Only mix in regular powered rails in turns and slopes as mentioned above. If you want to stop a high-speed cart quickly, for example, if you have stations/stops on your route, you can use hard brake blocks with unpowered powered rails.
