Double-edged trains: Economic outcomes and regional disparity of high-speed railways

S Yoo, J Kumagai, K Kawasaki, S Hong, B Zhang… - Transport Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
We illuminate the causal relationship between high-speed railway (HSR) expansions and
economic development, focusing on HSR in Japan–the Shinkansen–from 1983 to 2020. To …

Does growth follow the rail? The potential impact of high-speed rail on the economic geography of China

M Diao - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapidly expanding high-speed rail (HSR) network in China has produced and will
continue to produce a progressive contraction of space by significantly shortening the rail …

Impacts of high-speed railways on economic growth and disparity in China

M Jin, KC Lin, W Shi, PTW Lee, KX Li - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
China's high-speed railways (HSRs) networks have dramatically expanded since 2008,
which is widely believed to have promoted economic growth. This study empirically tests this …

Economic impact of high-speed rail on household income in China

F Sun, YS Mansury - Transportation Research Record, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Although developed only in the past 20 years, Chinese high-speed rail (HSR) has overtaken
many of its forerunners in its unprecedented scale. However, such a scale raises questions …

[HTML][HTML] Roles of accessibility, connectivity and spatial interdependence in realizing the economic impact of high-speed rail: Evidence from China

J Jiao, J Wang, F Zhang, F Jin, W Liu - Transport Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid development of high-speed rail (HSR) in China has raised questions about its
implications for regional economic growth. Most existing studies take an aggregate …

The resource redistribution effect of high-speed rail stations on the economic growth of neighbouring regions: Evidence from China

X Meng, S Lin, X Zhu - Transport Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The role of high-speed rails (HSRs) in urban development remains a much-debated topic,
especially with regard to their impacts on surrounding counties without HSR stations. In this …

Does high-speed rail really promote economic growth? evidence from China's Yangtze River delta region

Y Gao, S Song, J Sun, L Zang - … Yangtze River Delta Region (April 8 …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
High-speed rail (HSR) has led to a transportation revolution in China. This paper uses
county-level panel data of China's Yangtze River region to investigate the effect of …

High-speed railway and urban sectoral employment in China

X Dong - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the effects of the High-Speed Railway (HSR) on urban sectoral
employment using China's city-level data from 2003 to 2015. I found that cities connected to …

The unintended economic impact of high-speed rail on China's non-core cities: A spatial-difference-in-differences analysis

N Yu, Y Jin - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
China's large-scale high-speed rail (HSR) construction has raised heated debates
worldwide. Differing from previous research on metropolitan areas, this study examines on …

Estimating the economic benefits of high-speed rail in China

Z Chong, Z Chen, C Qin - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019 - JSTOR
This paper evaluates the economic benefits of high-speed rail (HSR) in China, with a focus
on the connectivity change resulting from HSR development. The effect of HSR, measured in …