scholarly journals Rail Accessibility in Germany: Changing Regional Disparities between 1990 and 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-115
Author(s):  
Fabian Wenner ◽  
Alain Thierstein
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
German Reunification ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Location Factor ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Conventional Rail

Transport accessibility is an important location factor for households and firms. In the last few decades, technological and social developments have contributed to a reinvigorated role of passenger transport. However, rail accessibility is unevenly distributed in space. The introduction of high-speed rail has furthermore promoted a polarisation of accessibility between metropolises and peripheral areas in some European countries. In this article we analyse the development of rail accessibility at the regional level in Germany between 1990 and 2020 for 266 functional city-regions. Our results show two different facets: The number of regions that are directly connected to one another has decreased, but at the same time the spatial disparities of accessibility have decreased, albeit to a small extent. This development was strongest in East Germany after German reunification and thus largely a consequence of the renovation of the conventional rail infrastructure, not high-speed rail. Nevertheless, it can be concluded that the introduction of high-speed traffic in Germany did not lead to an increase in accessibility disparities. Instead, the accessibility effects of high-speed rail in Germany seem to break the traditional dichotomy between core and periphery.

Role of high-speed rail on social fixed assets investments in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Jinghua Ou ◽  
Shujie Yao
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Fixed Assets

scholarly journals Infrastructure costs and benefits of European high-speed rail

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Nedžad Branković ◽  
Aida Kalem
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Conventional Rail ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

The development of new technologies has significantly influenced railways modernization and has caused the appearance of high-speed rail which represent a safe, comfortable and ecologically sustainable way of transportation. The high-speed rail present a big step in a relation to conventional railways, where the biggest difference is speed which even entails a change of other organizational and operational parameters, better utilization of trains, higher performance of manpower and better service to users.  That is visible in many cities around the world where high-speed trains are used by billions of users. In the EU there is no unique high-speed railway network, besides that in many EU member countries various operational models are applied. The future of the high-speed railways market depends on political, economical and technical factors and challenges as high infrastructure costs, various rates of return on investment and the negative effects of economic crises. The main objective of the paper is to analyze infrastucture costs of high-speed rail in Europe and benefits such us  time savings, higher reliability, comfort, safety, reducing pollution and the release of capacity in the conventional rail network, roads and airport infrastructure.

Struttura competitiva dopo la crisi Alitalia: il caso dela tratta Milano-Roma

2009 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Giovanna Campopiano ◽  
Josip Kotlar ◽  
Andrea Salanti
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Real Price

Air travel routes and high speed rail connection between Milan and Rome after the Alitalia crisis This paper analyses the first available data about changes in passenger traffic and air/rail fares after the Alitalia crisis and the substantial reduction of the travel time between Milan and Rome, due to the improvement of high speed rail on this connection. As recently happened in similar cases within Europe, the rail has gained a significant share of traffic previously attracted by air transport services. Apart from that, a real price competition is prevented by a number of inefficiencies which are mainly due to the monopolistic position of the new Alitalia on the route Milan Linate-Rome Fiumicino and problems of accessibility affecting our airports, and partly our rail stations too. The role of the various authorities potentially involved is burdened, in the last instance, by infrastructural deficiencies.

Open Innovation with Chinese Characteristics

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-166
Author(s):  
Henry Chesbrough
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
World Class ◽  
Rival Firms

Open Innovation in China is greatly affected by the powerful role of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi Jinping thought introduces a tension between the ‘decisive role of the markets’ to allocate resources and stimulate innovation across the economy and ‘the leading role of the Party’ to guide the development of innovation in the most important industries. This tension plays out differently in different industries in China. In high-speed rail, the tension has been adroitly managed, creating an organization with world class innovation capabilities that is a peer with the best of the rival firms in the world. In automotive and semiconductors, however, the tension has been more problematic. The state-owned enterprises are well aligned with the Party, while it is the privately owned companies and foreign companies that are driving innovation.

Regional economic growth and the role of high-speed rail in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (32) ◽  
pp. 3465-3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujie Yao ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Jinghua Ou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Regional Economic

scholarly journals The Significant Role of Oman in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordechai Chaziza
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
First Century ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Physical Infrastructure

In recent years, China has been seeking to deepen its global centrality by connecting to Asia, Europe, and Africa through investments in physical infrastructure, that is, ports and pipelines, high-speed rail, and other utilities, with associated bilateral trade and investments in critical states along the land- and sea-based Silk Road. Oman is positioned to play a critical role in China’s expanding footprint in the Middle East. Its advantageous maritime location, influence in energy markets, and independent foreign policy make Oman an attractive partner for China and of vital strategic significance in the construction and realization of the twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). Oman has enthusiastically embraced China’s MSRI and expressed an eagerness to leverage China’s growing influence in the Middle East to transform itself into a center of global trade and manufacturing.

High-Speed Railway Passenger Node Classification Method and Train Stops Scheme

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 632-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Fei Zhou ◽  
Bao Ming Han ◽  
Qi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Plan Evaluation ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Passenger Flow ◽  
Railway Passenger Transport ◽  
Train Operation ◽  
Railway Passenger

The development of high-speed railway has been very fast, while there are still existing many problems to be further studied and discussed, especially the design of high-speed railway Train stops program. The research of classification of high-speed passenger railway nodes has a vital significance for forecast of high-speed railway passenger flow, passenger train operation plan, evaluation and optimization and so on, especially for highspeed railway stopping schedule .This paper analyzes the significance and methods of high-speed passenger railway nodes classification, and designs high-speed rail train line stops program based on the classification. Finally, analyzing the case on the basis of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, a train stops program will be made bases on the classification of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway passenger transport nodes to verify the feasibility of this study.

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