Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Land use and real estate impacts -- 2. Spatial impacts of high speed rail on land value change -- 3. Spatial-temporal impacts on urban growth: the case of the Beijing-Shanghai line -- 4. Housing impact of long-distance high speed rail --...

This chapter examines how and to what extent there are variations in sub-regional patterns of socio-spatial interaction using a novel methodology. The methodology uses bipartite network modeling combined with spatial statistical and geographically weighted regression analysis. It provides a...

In an earlier study, Parajuli and Haynes (Growth and Change 43:590–614, 2012) used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess efficiency of broadband utilization across US states. They found that a number of states in the USA assumed an efficiency score of one for broadband adoption and use....

The literature on regional change in post-reform China suggests a consistent pattern of increasing regional disparity during 1990s. This paper explains disparity through the lens of industrial transition as reflected in the three major economic sectors, agriculture, manufacturing, and services...

Flying into the Future explores the organization of air transport in the European Union. It analyses the nature of the industries supplying air transport services, the institutional structure of air transport services, and impediments to increased efficiency in the provision of air transport....