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@Greenbank
If anything I'd reckon trackstanding would be slower than a normal start.
It's quite different from a TT/track start where the either the rider is held, or the rear wheel is held in a track start machine; neither of these require the rider to balance or inch back/forth on the pedals.
I seem to pull away much faster from lights by using my unclipped foot to give me a big push, whilst pushing down with the foot that is clipped in, I then clip in the other foot near the top of the pedal stroke ready to push down with that one. There's a small chance I'll fail to clip in on the downstroke, but I can still put quite a bit of power in, and it's easy to ensure the clip in on the way back up. The scoot along the ground with the unclipped foot provides much more speed that I can get purely from one pedal stroke.
From there you've got 10 seconds of sprinting, wrenching the bars and knocking on the door of the vomitorium.
For similarly fit/athletic cyclist and runner:-
<50m: runner
Crossover point somewhere inbetween depending on twelfty different variables.