Effects of high-speed rail and airline cooperation under hub airport capacity constraint

The Incorporation of Passenger Connectivity and Intermodal Considerations in Intercity Transport Planning

“…There are many benefits of airlines and HSR operators cooperating (many of which can be extended to other modes): HSR operators can increase their load factors, airlines can replace unprofitable flights with profitable long-distance services, airports can reduce congestion/ delays, authorities can reduce travel externalities and residents can have greater travel options or lower costs (Givoni & Banister, 2006Janic, 2010). However, this may come at a price of reducing competition in some markets (Chiambaretto & Decker, 2012;Jiang & Zhang, 2014;Socorro & Viecens, 2013) and significant infrastructure costs for connecting the two modes (US GAO, 2013), Section 2.7 discusses related topics.…”

Multiple hub network and high-speed railway: Connectivity, gateway, and airport leakage

“…First, we neglect some physical constraints at airports like runway capacity constraints. Dobruszkes (2011) and Jiang and Zhang (2014) pointed out that some issues caused by strict physical constraints in a multiple airport system can be reduced by a special coordination between air and rail, for example, cooperation. We need to confirm this possibility to find a better way to manage the multiple hub system with HSR.…”

“…Jiang and Zhang (2014) is one of the first to discuss the relation between HSR and a multiple airport system and they conclude that a serious shortage of airport capacity would be supplemented by the cooperation between air and HSR. Their conclusion gives a good suggestion for how to coordinate air transport with HSR transport, but unfortunately they do not deal with a relation between HSR and airport's role as gateway, particularly multiple hub system.…”

A model of internal and external competition in a High Speed Rail line

“…6 Other interesting papers that have studied infrastructure investments in HSR and their viability include Vickerman (1997), Gonzalez-Savignat (2004), and de Rus and Nombela (2007), to mention a few. The recent paper by Jiang and Zhang (2014) shows the relevance of hub airport capacity in assessing the welfare impact of airline-HSR cooperation. 7 Notice that any other differences between transport modes such as travel time, reliability, comfort, and so on, which affect willingness to pay are included in constants a a and ar :…”