Price Elasticity of Demand on the High-Speed Rail Lines of Spain: Impact of the New Pricing Scheme

Hortelano, Alejandro Ortega; Guzmán, Á.; Preston, John; Vassallo, José Manuel

doi:10.3141/2597-12

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“…Similarly to other studies [47,48] and commercial experiences [49], an average occupancy rate of the 65% is here considered, and using the Dalla Chiara average figure, the final specific energy consumption of HST results in 0.057 kWh/PKM; this figure is in good agreement with other previous studies [11,50]. The potential emissions advantage of the HSR compared to aircraft is strongly affected by the mix of primary energy sources used for the electricity generation.…”

Section: Emission Impact Of Rail Transportsupporting

confidence: 84%

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

Prussi

Laura

2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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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.

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

Prussi

Laura

2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…The change is in the specific modal attributes that have a higher utility for rail services than for air services, representing the quality of the service offered by HSR trains. This result confirms what has been achieved in other countries [32,33].…”

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Which High-Speed Rail? LARG Approach between Plan and Design

Russo

2021

Future Transportation

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Of the approximately 100,000 km of High-Speed Rail (HSR) lines in the world today, half are in operation and half are planned or under construction. The implementation of HSRs are planned in various countries with different characteristics to pursue different objectives. Today, the results are known, and therefore, the differences between the planned and achieved objectives can be verified. Italy is one of the countries that first built an HSR, and now, at the national planning level, Italy has decided to implement an HSR in Southern Italy. The problem is therefore not “whether” to realize an HSR but “which” type of HSR to realize. Italy is an important case study at the international level because it is possible to extend the HSR network in three different ways: upgrading existing lines by increasing the speed to 200 km/h, building a new line with speeds of 300 km/h with heavy freight trains, and building a new line with speeds of 300 km/h without heavy freight trains. The problem is how to find the best alternative in order to pursue sustainable development while considering national planning. To solve this problem, at the intermediate level between planning and design, the theoretical Lean, Agile, Resilient, Green (LARG) paradigm is proposed and applied. This approach can be extended to all countries that are launching massive and expensive programs to construct HSR lines or to upgrade existing lines.

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“…Spain is located in Southwestern Europe, with a GDP per capita of e25,966 in 2016 and 3% of an average annual growth (Hortelano et al, 2016). In Spain, the first HSR line was opened in 1992, connecting Madrid, Cordoba and Seville, stretching from the center of the country to the southern side of the Iberian Peninsula for a length of 471 kilometers, while Seville hosted the Universal Exposition in April 1992.…”

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“…In this case, Spain took advantage of European funds after joining the EU in 1986 to develop its HSR network. However, the first high-speed rail line was built based on the technical standards of the TGV network with a standard gauge of 1,435 mm (Hortelano et al, 2016). In 2013, there was an accident of HS train on the Madrid-Ferrol route due to doubling the allowed speed of 80 km/h at the entering of a bend.…”

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The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

Almujibah

Preston

2019

Front. Built Environ.

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Constructing High-Speed Rail technology between the Saudi Arabian cities starts raising many challenging issues of a different nature ranging from technical to operational, which require huge investments in infrastructure, operations, and maintenance. However, this paper develops a new methodology to calculate the total social costs of building a new HSR worldwide and applies this using the case study of the Riyadh-Dammam corridor in Saudi Arabia. This is done through a Spreadsheet Cost Model mainly based on Microsoft Excel that includes operator cost, user cost, and external cost. In order to determine the total social costs of a Riyadh-Dammam HSR line, the annual travel demand is forecasted of 13,205,212 passengers in the first year of operation. In this case, the gravity demand model is used to forecast the demand, as a function of independent variables for the cities alongside with the proposed line such as the population, GDP per capita, the generalized journey time, unemployment rate, years since opening the corridor, and the dummy variable. As a result, the total social costs of constructing and operating the proposed HSR line is e1,090,106,913 per year resulting from the sum of the following categories. First, the total operator cost (OC) is e859,797,307 per year, which is mainly based on the total infrastructure and rolling stock costs of e750,852,759 per year and e108,944,548 per year, respectively. Second, the total user cost is e216,769,247 per year resulting from the sum of total annual passenger access/egress time, waiting time, and in-vehicle time. Finally, the total external environmental cost is e13,540,359 per year resulting from the sum of average costs of noise and air pollution, climate change, and accident.

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Price Elasticity of Demand on the High-Speed Rail Lines of Spain: Impact of the New Pricing Scheme

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

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

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

Which High-Speed Rail? LARG Approach between Plan and Design

The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

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