scholarly journals Historical Preservation in Rust-Belt China: The Life and Death of Jihong Bridge in Harbin

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xuefei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Historical Preservation ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Historical Architecture ◽  
Competing Priorities

This article examines how China’s rust-belt cities deploy historical preservation for urban revitalization. Drawing upon fieldwork interviews and online debates, it investigates the preservation battle over Jihong Bridge in Harbin in northeast China. Built by Russian settlers in the early 20th century, Jihong Bridge symbolizes the birth of Harbin as a railway city, but a century later, it stood in the way of the local government’s ambitious plan for building high-speed rail. The municipal government elevated the bridge, significantly modifying its structure to allow high-speed trains to pass underneath. The renovation was heavily criticized by local preservationists, who invoked the government’s own preservation regulations to try to save the bridge. The study highlights the dilemma faced by local governments of rust-belt cities, as they are caught between the desire to deploy historical architecture for city branding and competing priorities of infrastructure investment.

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.

scholarly journals Sustainability by High–Speed Rail: The Reduction Mechanisms of Transportation Infrastructure on Haze Pollution

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2763
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Yuandi Wang ◽  
Ruifeng Hu
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
Competitive Capabilities ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Pollution Impacts ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Haze pollution impacts human health, as well as the competitive capabilities of firms and local economic development. Considerable attention has been given to the study of mechanisms for reducing haze pollution, but few studies have investigated the effect of city-to-city transportation infrastructures on environmental issues based on an institutional perspective. To address this research gap, this study advances our understanding by assessing the effect of city–to–city transportation on haze pollution caused by the operation of high-speed rail, which triggers the rapid flow of individuals and information, improves information transparency, as well as imposes institutional pressure on local governments and firms to reduce haze pollution. To further verify the underlying mechanisms, we tested the development of hard infrastructure (information communication technology) and soft infrastructure (market development level), which represent two conditions for which the mechanism is likely to be critical. We tested our hypotheses using a sample of 288 prefecture-level cities in China during the period from 2005 to 2016. The empirical results indicate that the operation of high-speed rail can reduce haze pollution by 17% on average.

scholarly journals The Effect of Pendolino high-speed rail on the structure of buildings located in the proximity of railway tracks

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
K. Grębowski ◽  
Z. Ulman
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Building Structure ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Railway Tracks ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The following research focuses on the dynamic analysis of impact of the high-speed train induced vibrations on the structures located near railway tracks. The office complex chosen as the subject of calculations is located in the northern part of Poland, in Gdańsk, in the proximity of Pendolino, the high speed train route. The high speed trains are the response for the growing needs for a more efficient railway system. However, with a higher speed of the train, the railway induced vibrations might cause more harmful resonance in the structures of the nearby buildings. The damage severity depends on many factors such as the duration of said resonance and the presence of additional loads. The studies and analyses helped to determinate the method of evaluating the impact of railway induced vibrations on any building structure. The dynamic analysis presented in the research is an example of a method which allows an effective calculation of the impact of vibrations via SOFISTIK program.

California's “Fast-Track” to High-Speed Rail

2016 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Rod Diridon Sr. ◽  
Ben Tripousis
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Funding ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Private Investors

For over 50 years, after both public and private studies confirmed California's need for high-speed rail, nothing happened. The rest of the US had a similarly disappointing experience when attempting to break into the rapidly growing family of nations with operating high-speed trains. Yet, over the past year, California has contracted over $2.5 billion in high-speed rail civil work, is preparing RFPs for three times that amount, and has secured commitments for nearly $25 billion in additional federal and state funding over the next 30 years. Private investors are lining up for the nation's first high-speed rail public-private partnership to complete this $68 billion, 540 mile project. This chapter describes the unprecedented technical excellence, political courage, and visionary voter support that created that high-speed rail breakthrough for California and the nation.

scholarly journals Tourist tongues: High-speed rail carries linguistic and cultural urbanisation beyond the city limits in Guangxi, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Grey
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Mobile Capital ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Local Languages

AbstractThis article builds upon research which analyses the reconstruction of cities in China as an integral part of image-making discourses competing to attract mobile capital. It extends that literature beyond urban places to urbanisation processes, examining the material and linguistic features of networks and discourses of new high-speed rail infrastructure Guangxi, a poorer, rural, multilingual and multiethnic region of the People’s Republic of China (China) in which tourism – propelled by high-speed trains – has become a pillar of economic development. It argues that these trains produce symbolically powerful discourses which contribute to cultural urbanisation across Guangxi, emplacing urban norms outside city limits in pursuit of profitable sameness, as tourism does not trade only upon difference. Local multilingualism, specifically, is erased as too different, a barrier to tourists’ (and tourism capital’s) mobility. Amongst other ramifications, this reproduces social distance and ideologically displaces local languages.

scholarly journals Passenger Aviation and High Speed Rail: A Comparison of Emissions Profiles on Selected European Routes

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Prussi ◽  
Laura Lonza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Transport System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
High Speed Trains

Air transport has been constantly growing and forecasts seem to confirm the trend; the resulting environmental impact is relevant, both at local and at global scale. In this paper, data from various datasets have been integrated to assess the environmental impact of modal substitution with high speed rail. Six intra-EU28 routes and a domestic route have been defined for comparison. The airports have been chosen considering the share of the total number of passengers on flights to/from other EU Member States. Three scenarios have been proposed in the time period 2017–2025; aircraft types, distance bands, and occupancy rate are investigated on each scenario. The comparison with HSR service has been carried out only on passenger service and not for freight. The energy consumption and the consequent emissions for the aircraft have been estimated on the base of the available data for the mix of aircraft types, performing the routes. The results indicate the advantage of the high speed trains, in terms of direct CO2eq emissions per passenger km. Compared to a neutral scenario, with an annual passenger increment of 3.5%, the HSR substitution of the 5% and the 25% of this increment allow a GHG saving of 4% and 20%, respectively. Some of the analysed routes (e.g., Frankfurt Main–Paris CDG) have interesting GHG savings but the duration of the trip today is limiting for a real substitution. Moreover, there is general agreement that the extreme weather events induced by climate change will affect the functioning of the European transport system. In this sense, transportation by the rail mode is expected to play a significant role in strengthening the EU transport system, its resilience, and its reliability, as it is less immediately subject to the impacts of severe weather conditions.

Containment capacity and estimation of crashworthiness of derailment containment walls against high-speed trains

2016 ◽  
Vol 232 (3) ◽  
pp. 680-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Ung Bae ◽  
Kyung-Min Yun ◽  
Nam-Hyoung Lim
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
High Speed Trains

Europe, USA, China, Japan, and Korea, which possess advanced railway technologies, have attempted to develop high-speed rail technology and ensure safety based on social requirements and the need for greater speeds. However, despite these efforts, there have been recent reports of train accidents resulting in loss of lives. Fatal train accidents usually involve derailments or collisions that do not happen frequently. However, when they occur, the damage is catastrophic. Therefore, a protection infrastructure should be installed to minimize such damage. Since the high-speed railways were introduced in Korea, derailment containment walls have been constructed to mitigate and minimize the damages caused by such accidents. The need for the judgment of effectiveness and feasibility review of the derailment containment walls in terms of economics and construction ability has been presented by designers and constructors. In this paper, the authors have evaluated the containment capacity and collision durability (crashworthiness) of a derailment containment wall, constructed in Korea, using a collision simulation after the derailment of a train.

scholarly journals Windows of Opportunity in the CoPS’s Catch-Up Process: A Case Study of China’s High-Speed Train Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2144
Author(s):  
Han Huang ◽  
Jie Xiong ◽  
Junfang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Catch Up

Over the last 20 years, the rapid development of high-speed Chinese trains has provided valuable guidelines to countries and companies eager to develop their complex product and system (CoPS) sectors. CoPS refers to the high cost and technology-intensive systems, networks, infrastructure and engineering constructs, and services. Although established studies highlight the importance of CoPS to the economy and development of a country, especially those that have yet to develop high-speed rail, scholars have not paid much attention to investigating the catch-up of CoPS industries from the windows of opportunity perspective. We aimed to fill in this research gap by analyzing the successful catch-up of Chinese high-speed trains. Based on a longitudinal case study of this industry, we analyzed and detailed the mechanisms of the catch-up process of a typical CoPS sector and its development. Our results enrich the literature of the catch-up process, CoPS, and the studies of windows of opportunity. In particular, we show that the windows of opportunity that emerge in the catch-up process of CoPS have the characteristics of endogeneity, asymmetry, and relevance. Moreover, our study further indicates that the endogenous windows of opportunity regarding policy result in the development of later windows of technology and demand. We also find that the technology’s windows of opportunity consist of the window to broaden the technology width and the window to deepen the technology depth of latecomers. In addition to theoretical contributions, our findings can help policymakers of latecomer countries better formulate CoPS industrial policies, followed by a gradual progress in successfully catch-up with the leading countries.

California's “Fast-Track” to High-Speed Rail

2020 ◽  
pp. 1013-1026
Author(s):  
Rod Diridon Sr. ◽  
Ben Tripousis
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Funding ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Private Investors

For over 50 years, after both public and private studies confirmed California's need for high-speed rail, nothing happened. The rest of the US had a similarly disappointing experience when attempting to break into the rapidly growing family of nations with operating high-speed trains. Yet, over the past year, California has contracted over $2.5 billion in high-speed rail civil work, is preparing RFPs for three times that amount, and has secured commitments for nearly $25 billion in additional federal and state funding over the next 30 years. Private investors are lining up for the nation's first high-speed rail public-private partnership to complete this $68 billion, 540 mile project. This chapter describes the unprecedented technical excellence, political courage, and visionary voter support that created that high-speed rail breakthrough for California and the nation.

High Speed Rail Awaits the next Breakthrough of Power Semiconductors

2014 ◽  
Vol 778-780 ◽  
pp. 1071-1076
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Uzuka ◽  
Eisuke Masada
Keyword(s):  
High Voltage ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Power Semiconductors ◽  
Power Semiconductor ◽  
Flexible Ac Transmission ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Ac Transmission

High Speed Rail (HSR) is expanding rapidly in the whole world in this decade. Almost all the high-speed trains are fed by high-voltage AC and are equipped with several large motors. In addition, High-speed trains have a strict restriction for both mass and size. Thus, HSR needs power semiconductors that can handle high-voltage and giant current. In addition, EMC problems become larger in these days, thus higher speed of switching is expected. From simple silicon diodes in 1960s, thyristors, GTO thyristors, IGBTs and until new wide gap devices such like SiC, the progress of power semiconductor and cooling system directly pulls the performance of high-speed rolling stock. In some cases, fixed installations for HSR are equipped with flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) such as static VAR compensators (SVC), also.

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