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Railway efficiency : an overview and a look at opportunities for improvement

Beck, Arne; Bente, Heiner; Schilling, Martin - 2013

Railway efficiency is a topic of interest worldwide for railway managers operating in competitive markets and for fiscally strained governments. Several recent studies indicate that European railways differ in terms of their efficiency. Based on a comparison with some major non-European railway...

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Central Asia rail development : why China's belt and road initiative lacks regional importance

Bucsky, Péter; Kenderdine, Tristan - In: The Copenhagen journal of Asian studies : CJAS 39 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20

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Analyzing the railway network of the belt and road initiative

Uygun, Yilmaz; Ahsan, Jahanzeb - In: Cogent business & management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34

announcement of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, which consists of seaborne and land routes. Within the latter one, this … a macroscopic model designed as a GIS-based discrete-event model of rail freight from China to Germany under existing …

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Georgian railway's experiences with belt and road initiative : advantages and disadvantages

Gondauri, Davit - 2022

Georgia's railway network is a key segment of the TRACECA, the shortest route from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Basin. Georgian Railway Corridor has a number of advantages over pipeline, alternative railways and auto transport. Changing the quality of...

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Challenges faced by Chinese firms implementing the "Belt and Road Initiative" : evidence from three railway projects

Weng, Lingfei; Xue, Lan; Sayer, Jeffrey; Riggs, Rebecca Anne - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-12

In 2013, China launched its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) as a major effort to enhance international trade and … open regional cooperation. The concept of BRI involves establishing a transport route between China and participating … while political leaders signed agreements that welcomed China’s BRI in support of their national transport development plans …

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Railroading land-linked Laos : China's regional profits, Laos' domestic costs?

Rowedder, Simon - In: Eurasian geography and economics 61 (2020) 2, pp. 152-161

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Transport infrastructure and the decentralization of cities in the People's Republic of China

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Turner, Matthew A. - In: Asian development review 34 (2017) 2, pp. 25-50

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The implications of the new Silk Road railways on local development

Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...

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Evolution of the China Railway Express in the context of policy support, trade trends, and infrastructure supply

Benard, Manuel; Yu, Runze; Pu, Wenjing - 2024

This paper delves into the developmental trajectory and future prospects of China Railway (CR) Express, a containerized … railway freight service between the People's Republic of China (the PRC) and Europe, and examines the associated …

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European hub location problem for China Railway Express in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative

Zhao, Laijun; Stoeter, Johan; Li, Huiyong; Hu, Qingmi; … - In: International journal of logistics : research and … 23 (2020) 6, pp. 561-579

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