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High-speed railway, market access, and economic growth
Wei Zou; Chen, Liangheng; Xiong, Junke - 2018
's Republic of China, for which we manually collect the pairwise travel distances and railway speeds to calculate the market …
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Revitalising the Silk Road : evidence from railway infrastructure investments in Northwest China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …
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Double-edged trains : economic outcomes and regional disparity of high-speed railways
Yoo, Sunbin; Kumagai, Junya; Kawasaki, Kohei; Hong, Sungwan - 2022
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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid …
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Speed and socioeconomic development : influence of Indian railways
Ravi, Neelakantan - 2019
Indian Railways is a little over a century and a half old. Its development over the decades has been gradual. It has been and continues to be the "lifeline for the socioeconomic growth of India," by connecting human settlements across the country and simultaneously transporting various resources...
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Safety culture in high-speed railways and the importance of top management decisions
Bugalia, Nikhil; Maemura, Yu; Ozawa, Kazumasa - 2019
Safety is a central issue that challenges decision-makers during the planning and implementation of high-speed railways (HSR) and appropriate systems should be in place to ensure safe performance during operations. To contribute toward the capacity-building efforts in countries importing HSR...
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High-speed railroad and economic geography : evidence from Japan
Li, Zhigang; Xu, Hangtian - 2016
This study addresses the debate on whether high-speed railroad (HSR) polarizes or balances economic geography. We find that both can occur: while the service sector tends to agglomerate, the manufacturing sector may decentralize; moreover, economic activities may agglomerate from distant areas to...
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …
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High speed 2 : the next government project disaster?
Aizlewood, Kyn; Wellings, Richard - 2011
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Intermodal competition in the London-Paris passenger market : high-speed rail and air transport
Behrens, Christiaan; Pels, Eric - 2009
This paper studies inter- and intramodal competition in the London-Paris passenger market. Using revealed preference data, we estimate nested and mixed multinomial logit models to examine passenger behaviour in the London-Paris market. We present a case study on the relocation of Eurostar...
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