Spatial and social equity implications for High-Speed Railway lines in Northern Italy

Cavallaro, Federico; Bruzzone, Francesco; Nocera, Silvio

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2020.03.028

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“…There are other studies that take third-party data into consideration to measure the effect of HSR on everyday life and the urban economy. For example, survey data and regression models have been used to examine the effect of HSR on tourism (Guirao and Campa 2015); labor and economic activity (Guirao, Lara-Galera, and Campa 2017;Li et al 2016); housing prices (Cheng, Loo, and Vickerman 2015;Diao, Zhu, and Zhu 2016), nighttime light data (Deng et al 2020), and ticket fares (Cavallaro et al 2020). The use of passenger flow data allowed for the spatial structure of 99 HSR cities in China to be analyzed, showing that the city network is multi-centered, particularly in the central and eastern cities (Yang et al 2018b).…”

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“…The channeling effect between two HSR end cities tend to be more significant. At the same time, Spatial and Social Equity Railway Indexes (SpREI and SoREI) are derived to assess the variation in travel times, number of connections, prices and population affected by HSR (Cavallaro et al 2020). These two indexes reveal that the intercity connection has decreased due to the significant increase in ticket prices, so the introduction of HSRs might generate the inequalities in the territorial connections.…”

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Modelling impacts of high-speed rail on urban interaction with social media in China’s mainland

Gong

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Geo-spatial Information Science

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High-Speed Rail (HSR) has increasingly become an important mode of inter-city transportation between large cities. Inter-city interaction facilitated by HSR tends to play a more prominent role in promoting urban and regional economic integration and development. Quantifying the impact of HSR's interaction on cities and people is therefore crucial for long-term urban and regional development planning and policy making. We develop an evaluation framework using toponym information from social media as a proxy to estimate the dynamics of such impact. This paper adopts two types of spatial information: toponyms from social media posts, and the geographical location information embedded in social media posts. The framework highlights the asymmetric nature of social interaction among cities, and proposes a series of metrics to quantify such impact from multiple perspectives -including interaction strength, spatial decay, and channel effect. The results show that HSRs not only greatly expand the uneven distribution of inter-city connections, but also significantly reshape the interactions that occur along HSR routes through the channel effect.

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Modelling impacts of high-speed rail on urban interaction with social media in China’s mainland

Gong

et al. 2021

Geo-spatial Information Science

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“…High-Speed Railway (HSR) is a large-scale transportation infrastructure investment that was introduced in China in 2008 to facilitate the flow of information, capital, and labor among cities [3,4], to increase spatial and social equity [5][6][7], and to stimulate economic growth [8,9]. Compared with traditional means of transportation, HSR has a significant space-time compression effect and a profound impact on social and economic operations.…”

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Transportation Infrastructure Construction and High-Quality Development of Enterprises: Evidence from the Quasi-Natural Experiment of High-Speed Railway Opening in China

Zhao

Xiao

2021

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High-quality development of the economy is an important guarantee for economic and business sustainability, and the construction of transportation infrastructure is an important channel to achieving high-quality development. Thus, we take the opening of China’s high-speed railway (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment and use the difference-in-difference model to explore the impact and mechanism of HSR on firms’ high-quality development. By using the total factor productivity of enterprises as the proxy for high-quality development, the empirical results show that: (1) the opening of the HSR can significantly promote high-quality development of enterprises; (2) the quality of information disclosure plays a mediating role in such relationships; and (3) the impact of HSR on enterprises’ high-quality development is more significant for enterprises that are located in cities with better business environments. Overall, this research indicates that local infrastructure construction is an important factor to achieve high-quality development of enterprises as well as economic sustainability that cannot be ignored, and this conclusion will be helpful for corporate managers in enhancing the quality of information disclosure, as well as for local governments to attach more importance to optimizing business environments to achieve high-quality development and economic sustainability.

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“…In particular, they also have the right to access goods and services that enable them to participate fully in society, whether this be through education, employment or private life. Equal and safe access should be provided first of all to the public transport system: infrastructure or suprastructure [1][2][3], which is the subject of, among others, the considerations of this article. Obviously, the presented issues are only one aspect of the larger problem of access to the public transportation system, the lack of which causes the greatest social exclusion, making it impossible to get to work, to school and to function normally in private life [4].…”

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Safety of People with Special Needs in Public Transport

Bęczkowska

Zysk

2021

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Safety is one of the most important needs of all people, but especially those with limited mobility, who face barriers of all kinds on a daily basis. The article includes a review of organizational and legal solutions for the safety of people with special needs in public transportation, as well as preliminary research aimed at identifying and classifying barriers in public transportation that limit the independent movement of people with special needs. The obtained results will be used in the development of the methodology for assessing the degree of accessibility of the studied objects and will form the basis of guidelines formulated in order to modify the existing and design the future elements of the transport system according to the principles of universal design. The problem of the lack of accessibility of public transport is the center of interest of many entities. Its solution requires a complex approach in the design process, taking into account both engineering knowledge and knowledge of the needs and constraints of different user groups. The results obtained from the study will allow the categorization of public transport modes in terms of their accessibility.

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Spatial and social equity implications for High-Speed Railway lines in Northern Italy

Cited by 36 publications

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Modelling impacts of high-speed rail on urban interaction with social media in China’s mainland

Modelling impacts of high-speed rail on urban interaction with social media in China’s mainland

Transportation Infrastructure Construction and High-Quality Development of Enterprises: Evidence from the Quasi-Natural Experiment of High-Speed Railway Opening in China

Safety of People with Special Needs in Public Transport

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