Towards oversized high-speed rail systems? Some lessons from France and Spain

Zembri, Pierre; Libourel, Éloïse

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.414

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“…Western governments often tie HSR initiatives to policymaking that relate to funding, political leadership, and national goals [47][48][49]. Applications for federal aid often include independent reviews of potential ridership, modal competition, and other forecasts [50].…”

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Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

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Countries considering high-speed rail (HSR) developments face enormous challenges because of their high deployment cost, environmental obstacles, political opposition, and their potentially adverse effects on society. Nevertheless, HSR services are importantly sustainable that can have positive and transformative effects on the economic growth of a nation. This paper systematically reviews and classifies impact areas of HSR deployments around the world as well as the analytical methods used to evaluate those impacts. We have utilized the scholarly scientific database to find articles in HSR systems. By defining some rules, we select 116 articles between 1997 and March 2020. The approach revealed interesting patterns and trends in space, time, and sentiment of the analyzed impacts on society, the economy, and the environment. The findings can inform decision-making about HSR developments and deployments, and the gaps identified in the literature can propose new research opportunities for future studies.

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Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

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“…On numerous occasions, railway environments have been doomed to spatial degradation and are far from their corresponding urban reference image. This is due, among other causes increased by the deep economic crisis in the real estate sector, to the fact that many of the rail depression projects in mediumsized cities are not within the reach of municipal governments, which must take advantage of national funds or railway entities to finance the initial investments (Zembri & Libourel, 2017;Martí-Henneberg, 2015). Some Spanish such as Barcelona (Sants or La Sagrera Station), Zaragoza (El Portillo Station) or Córdoba (Central Station) have managed to develop railway integration projects with the improvement of urban connectivity in surface, relying on large infrastructure projects such as high-speed lines.…”

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La reconfiguración capitalista de los espacios urbanos: Transformaciones y desigualdades

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Sakai²,

Oliveira³

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Tras dos décadas convulsas para la ciudad en España, se están generando nuevos procesos de reconfiguración urbana en un contexto caracterizado, entre otros factores, por la desigualdad y los conflictos sociales, el envejecimiento de la población, las perspectivas de género, el aumento de la movilidad y las migraciones, la problemática ambiental y la despoblación. Un panorama tan dispar, que ahora se vuelve aún más complejo en la actual situación de pandemia, requiere de un análisis sosegado del modelo de ciudad. En este contexto, el XV Coloquio de Geografía Urbana, celebrado en 2020 en plena crisis sanitaria, ha sido un escenario propicio para ahondar en la comprensión de la situación actual de la ciudad. En este libro se recogen 42 de las aportaciones presentadas en el coloquio procedentes de universidades y centros de investigación de varios países. Los trabajos, agrupados en seis temáticas generales en torno a dinámicas urbanas, cambios sociodemográficos, desigualdad y gentrificación, problemática de la vivienda y desposesión, planificación urbana, movilidad en la ciudad y patrimonio, revelan la complejidad del hecho urbano en España y en algunos países latinoamericanos y la necesidad de su continua interpretación a la luz de las tendencias y transformaciones que se han producido en los últimos años.

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“…Europe has a large railway network, within which France has the second longest with a total of almost 30,000 km (The World Bank 2019). In recent decades, the country has launched a massive High-Speed Rail (HSR) deployment plan, though it has politically slowed down in recent years, due to the scarcity of public funds and the prioritization of transport policies (Zembri and Libourel 2017;Cour des Comptes 2014). In 2019, 2,734 km of HSR are operated in France (International Union of Railways 2019), and a new 302 km-long HSR route has been running between the cities of Tours and Bordeaux since July 2017, reducing passenger time between Paris and Bordeaux from 3 to 2 hours (LISEA 2016).…”

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A life cycle model for high-speed rail infrastructure: environmental inventories and assessment of the Tours-Bordeaux railway in France

Bortoli

Bouhaya

Feraille

2020

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose: the objective of the study is to progress towards a comprehensive component-based Life Cycle Assessment model with clear and reusable Life Cycle Inventories (LCIs) for High Speed Rail (HSR) infrastructure components, to assess the main environmental impacts of HSR infrastructure over its lifespan, to finally determine environmental hotpots and good practices. Method: a process-based LCA compliant with ISO 14040 and 14044 is performed. Construction stage LCIs rely on data collection conducted with the concessionaire of the HSR line combined with EcoInvent 3.1 inventories. Use and End-of-Life stages LCIs rest on expert feedback scenarios and field data. A set of 13 midpoint indicators is proposed to capture the diversity of the environmental damage: climate change, consumptions of primary energy and non-renewable resources, human toxicity and ecotoxicities, eutrophication, acidification, radioactive and bulk wastes, stratospheric ozone depletion and summer smog. Results: The study shows major contributions to environmental impact from rails (10-71%), roadbed (3-48%), and civil engineering structures (4-28%). More limited impact is noted from ballast (1-22%), building machines (0-17%), sleepers (4-11%), and power supply system (2-12%). The two last components, chairs and fasteners, have negligible impact (max. 1% and 3% of total contributions, respectively). Direct transportation can contribute up to 18% of total impact. The production and maintenance stages contribute roughly equally to environmental

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Towards oversized high-speed rail systems? Some lessons from France and Spain

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

La reconfiguración capitalista de los espacios urbanos: Transformaciones y desigualdades

A life cycle model for high-speed rail infrastructure: environmental inventories and assessment of the Tours-Bordeaux railway in France

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