In the space of 30 years, Spain has built the world’s second most extensive HighSpeed Rail (HSR) network. Little is known, however, about how HSR is affecting localand regional economies in Spain, and whether such costly infrastructure is justified.This dissertation seeks to contribute to this...

Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high speed rail for other energy intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...

The entry of High-Speed Railways (HSR) represents a disruptive competition to airlines, particularly for short- to medium-distance journeys. Utilizing a unique dataset that contains the details of all flights departing from Beijing to 113 domestic destinations in China since January 2009, we...