scholarly journals Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12231
Author(s):  
Mohsen Momenitabar ◽  
Raj Bridgelall ◽  
Zhila Dehdari Ebrahimi ◽  
Mohammad Arani
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
New Research ◽  
Inform Decision Making ◽  
Deployment Cost

Countries considering high-speed rail (HSR) developments face enormous challenges because of their high deployment cost, environmental obstacles, political opposition, and their potentially adverse effects on society. Nevertheless, HSR services are importantly sustainable that can have positive and transformative effects on the economic growth of a nation. This paper systematically reviews and classifies impact areas of HSR deployments around the world as well as the analytical methods used to evaluate those impacts. We have utilized the scholarly scientific database to find articles in HSR systems. By defining some rules, we select 116 articles between 1997 and March 2020. The approach revealed interesting patterns and trends in space, time, and sentiment of the analyzed impacts on society, the economy, and the environment. The findings can inform decision-making about HSR developments and deployments, and the gaps identified in the literature can propose new research opportunities for future studies.

scholarly journals Does the Construction and Operation of High-Speed Rail Improve Urban Land Use Efficiency? Evidence from China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Xinhai Lu ◽  
Yifeng Tang ◽  
Shangan Ke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Land Use ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Western China ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Land Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

The construction and operation of high-speed rail (HSR) has become an important policy for China to achieve efficiency and fairness and promote high-quality economic growth. HSR promotes the flow of production factors such as labor and capital and affects economic growth, and may further affect urban land use efficiency (ULUE). To explore the impact of HSR on ULUE, this paper uses panel data of 284 cities in China from 2005 to 2018, and constructs Propensity Score Matching-Differences in Differences model to evaluate the effect of HSR on ULUE. The result of entire China demonstrates that the HSR could significantly improves the ULUE. Meanwhile, this paper also considers the heterogeneity of results caused by geographic location, urban levels and scales. It demonstrates that the HSR has a significantly positive effect on ULUE of Eastern, Central China, and large-sized cities. However, in Western China, in medium-sized, and small-sized cities, the impact of HSR on ULUE is not significant. This paper concludes that construction and operation of HSR should be linked to urban development planning and land use planning. Meanwhile, the cities with different geographical locations and scales should take advantage of HSR to improve ULUE and promote urban coordinated development.

scholarly journals Factors Determining the Success of HSR Building Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Elena M. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Scientific Result ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact

The article reviews the world experience in the construction and operation of high-speed railways in terms of factors that determine the success or failure of such projects. Since the construction of HSR is often considered as a part of national projects on a broader scale, it is proposed to use as criteria for success not only commercial indicators, but also various socio-economic effects arising from their implementation. The author classifies externalities that reflect the impact of HSR on the development of regions and cities and presents the results of foreign research on their quantitative and qualitative analysis. Special attention is paid to the experience of China, since this country significantly differs from the rest of the world in terms of development of high-speed rail traffic. In this regard, the largest amount of representative data that allows us to identify the success factors of HSR projects can be found for Chinese projects. The main scientific result of this article is a generalization of the existing experience of HSR construction projects and justification of the prospects for implementing such projects in the Russian Federation.

Using Large-Scale Programs to Help Develop Technological Capabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 413-435
Author(s):  
Xudong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Technological Capability ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Equipment Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
Power Generation Equipment

China is a developing country but has made impressive progress in technological capability development. One strategy proved to be effective is the use of large-scale programs to help technological capability development. Examples include the subway equipment industry, the high-speed rail industry, the power generation equipment industry, the power transmission industry, the telecom equipment industry, etc. In all these sectors, China was lagging behind the technological innovation frontier before the related large-scale programs but is now among the world leaders. In this chapter we will try to understand the process of initiating and managing these large-scale programs.

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 Impact of High-Speed Rail Opening on City Economics along the Silk Road Economic Belt

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Li ◽  
Yang Su ◽  
Jiaping Xie ◽  
Weijun Zhu ◽  
Yahua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Control Group ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The Impact

Achieving transport connectivity is a priority in China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. In order to further understand the impact of railway infrastructure on city-level economic expansion, we set cities with high-speed rail as the treatment group and those without high-speed rail as the control group, and a difference-in-differences (DID) technique was used to estimate the growth impact and heterogeneity of high-speed rail opening on the economic growth of cities along the New Silk Road Economic Belt. The main results are as follows: First, economic growth in cities with operational high-speed rail lines was significantly higher than those without high-speed rail. Second, the impact of high-speed rail on economic growth exhibited distinct heterogeneity. Large cities tend to have a stronger siphoning effect, resulting in more pronounced impact of high-speed rail opening on urban economic growth. Third, cities with higher marketization levels and higher government efficiency were shown to have stronger economic growth effect.

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