The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...

1.Introduction -- Part I: Fundamental Issues -- 2. Expanding the Content of Regional Science--Risks and Rewards, An Essay -- 3. Is Regional Science just Economics with a "dij" added to all Equations? Some Thoughts of an Economist -- 4. Sustainability and Resilience through Micro-Scale Decisions...

In this study, we focus on the Acela Express, and try to find out how selected internal and external factors affect the Acela Express’s ridership. A two-stage least square regression model is introduced in order to eliminate the endogeneity problem caused by price and ridership. Also the...