High speed rail

An evaluation of the economic, social, and ecological risks of China-Mongolia-Russia high-speed railway construction and policy suggestions

“…Furthermore, the plan has an explicit directive to "construct and develop international land transportation corridor and improve potentiality of railway and road transportation capacity" (NDRC, 2016). As one of the most important achievements of modern science and technology, high-speed railways are characterized by rapid transport, large capacity, high economic efficiency, low energy consumption, and reduced environmental pollution (Okada, 1994;Xu et al, 2011, Ryder, 2012, which makes it the optimum selection for construction in the China-Mongolia-Russia international land transportation corridor. High-speed railways will both enhance communication and cooperation among the three countries, and remold the spatial distribution patterns of economies, cities, and tourism in areas along the railway corridor and promote their development (Xu et al, 2011;Yu, 2015;Wang, 2014;Wang et al, 2015aWang et al, , 2015b.…”

A multimodal approach to assessing accessibility of a high-speed railway station

“…), and, in turn, trigger a new wave of economic growth (Tierney, 2012). Because of these positive possibilities, since its first operation in Japan in 1964, HSR has been favourably introduced in Europe and other countries (Ryder, 2012).…”

The effects of tourism on HSR: Spanish empirical evidence derived from a multi-criteria corridor selection methodology

“…Given that the construction of new HSR lines in any country should follow a prioritisation process and that this issue (as an indirect impact) is rarely taken into account by traditional CBA, the authors of this paper propose -as an initial approach -the inclusion of a tourism variable in the only existing HSR ranking model, a tool designed by Hagler and Todorovich (2009) for application in the US. Although the implementation of HSR in the United States is controversial and the scenario is totally different to Europe or Asia (Ryder, 2012), this multi-criteria methodology is the only ex-ante prioritizing tool applied to a HSR network in the world. This model has recently been used in Spain (Guirao and Campa, 2014a) and in Malaysia (Saat and Serrano, 2015) with interesting and consistent results, and in both these studies the original formulation was neither changed nor improved.…”