Welfare implications for air passengers in China in the era of high-speed rail

Yang, Hangjun; Ma, Wenliang; Wang, Qiang; Wang, Kun; Zhang, Yahua

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.04.007

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“…China's construction of high-speed rail is evidence of the country's capacity to dream big and make such aspirations come true. Yang, Du, Wang, Wang, and Zhang (2023) stated that due 3) will make up two-thirds of the world's total mileage by 2020, reaching a total length of 379,000 km. Eight vertical and horizontal HSR networks are expected to be built by the end of 2030.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 China Casementioning

confidence: 99%

KL-SG High-Speed Rail – a catalyst for national economic development

Permalu,

Nagarajoo

2024

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PurposeIn an increasingly interconnected world, transportation infrastructure has emerged as a critical determinant of economic growth and global competitiveness. High-speed rail (HSR), characterized by its exceptional speed and efficiency, has garnered widespread attention as a transformative mode of transportation that transcends borders and fosters economic development. The Kuala Lumpur – Singapore (KL-SG) HSR project stands as a prominent exemplar of this paradigm, symbolizing the potential of HSR to serve as a catalyst for national economic advancement.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is prepared to provide an insight into the benefits and advantages of HSR based on proven case studies and references from global HSRs, including China, Spain, France and Japan.FindingsThe findings that have been obtained focus on enhanced connectivity and accessibility, attracting foreign direct investment, revitalizing regional economies, urban development and city regeneration, boosting tourism and cultural exchange, human capital development, regional integration and environmental and sustainability benefits.Originality/valueThe KL-SG HSR, linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, epitomizes the potential for HSR to be a transformative agent in the realm of economic development. This project encapsulates the aspirations of two dynamic Southeast Asian economies, united in their pursuit of sustainable growth, enhanced connectivity and global competitiveness. By scrutinizing the KL-SG High-Speed Rail through the lens of economic benchmarking, a deeper understanding emerges of how such projects can drive progress in areas such as cross-border trade, tourism, urban development and technological innovation.

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Section: Literature Review 21 China Casementioning

confidence: 99%

KL-SG High-Speed Rail – a catalyst for national economic development

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Nagarajoo

2024

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“…On the other hand, the indexes from the aviation aspect are related to the factors of flights, flows, and capacity. Yang et al (2020) selected HSR travel speed and the number of HSR stations as HSRrelated variables in their evaluation model to reflect the impact of HSR on the aviation market.…”

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“…The strong impact of HSR on the aviation market has given rise to new driving factors for the evolution of China's MARs. The competition and collaboration between Air-HSR has become an important research concern and often involves cost-benefit analysis, assessments of the impact on air transport market structure, and overall welfare implications (Adler et al, 2010;Jiang et al, 2017;Takebayashi, 2016;Xia and Zhang, 2017;Yang et al, 2020;. However, less work has been accomplished on the exploration of distinctive new groupings of airports and the distribution of various airport combinations in MARs taking into account the interactions of Air-HSR.…”

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Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions

Chen,

Fuellhart,

Zhang

et al. 2022

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

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The agglomeration of airports into multi-airport regions (MARs) has become one of the salient features of the worldwide air transport system in the last decades. Meanwhile, in China, the development of HSR is growing quickly, and is both competitive to and cooperative with the aviation network. To date some research has focused on the airport classification with aviation network properties within the specific MARs. However, little research comprehensively integrates complementary transport systems (such as civil aviation versus high-speed rail (HSR)) into the analytical framework for airport classification. The purpose of this paper is to identify the unique nature of component airports and their distribution in MARs in China from multiple perspectives by accounting for the influence of the HSR system. Airports are classified along multiple dimensions including competitive concentrations, the interaction between air transport and HSR, and airport community structure, among others. The results produce distinct partitions of the component airports in Chinese MARs, and provide insights into Chinese airport functionality and impacts of the HSR network on the distribution of different types of airports. The conclusions provide a more comprehensive assessment of airports’ spatial arrangement in the unique Chinese MAR context. Although this paper did not derive the market share allocation and co-opetition relationship between a specific airport and HSR, it proposed a basic framework for future research.

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“…HSR has become one of the main choices for interregional travel in China, especially for short- and medium-distance travel ( Wang et al, 2017 ; Zhu et al, 2018 , 2019 ; Liu et al, 2019 , 2020 ; Li et al, 2020a ). As a core HSR hub, Wuhan plays a major role in China high-speed rail network (CHSRN), bridging both the North-South parts, and the East-West parts, of China ( Jiao et al, 2017 , 2020 ; Li et al, 2019 ; Li and Rong, 2020 , Zhang et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2020 ). As a result, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan can rapidly and easily spread to other regions when effective control measures cannot be taken in time, owing to the lack of awareness of COVID-19.…”

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Assessing regional risk of COVID-19 infection from Wuhan via high-speed rail

Rong

Zhang

2021

Transport Policy

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This paper demonstrates that transportation networks may be used to assess and predict the regional risk of COVID-19 infection from the outbreak. We use China's high-speed rail (HSR) network at the scale of prefecture level to assess, based on a probabilistic risk model, the risk of COVID-19 infection from Wuhan to the country's 31 province-level regions at the early stage of domestic spread. We find that the high-risk regions are mainly distributed along the southern half of Beijing-Hong Kong HSR line, where a large number of infection cases have been confirmed at the early stage. Furthermore, the two components of the infection risk, namely, the probability (proxied by the region's correlation with Wuhan through HSR) and the impact (proxied by the region's population with mobility), can play different roles in the risk ranking for different regions. For public health administrators, these findings may be used for better decision making, including the preparation of emergency plans and supplies, and the allocation of limited resources, before the extensive spread of the epidemic. Moreover, the administrators should adopt different intervention measures for different regions, so as to better mitigate the epidemic spread according to their own risk scenarios with respect to the probability of occurring and, once occurred, the impact.

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Welfare implications for air passengers in China in the era of high-speed rail

Cited by 22 publications

References 54 publications

KL-SG High-Speed Rail – a catalyst for national economic development

KL-SG High-Speed Rail – a catalyst for national economic development

Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions

Assessing regional risk of COVID-19 infection from Wuhan via high-speed rail

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