Impacts of high-speed rail on airlines, airports and regional economies: A survey of recent research

A Zhang, Y Wan, H Yang - Transport policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper first reviews studies on the impacts of air-HSR competition on airlines, focusing
on the overall effects of parallel HSR services on passengers' mode choice as well as on …

Computational socioeconomics

J Gao, YC Zhang, T Zhou - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

High-speed rail and CO2 emissions in urban China: A spatial difference-in-differences approach

R Jia, S Shao, L Yang - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
As the most important emerging transportation technology, high-speed rail (HSR) can
reshape regional economic development patterns and exert an important effect on the …

Economic growth, transport accessibility and regional equity impacts of high-speed railways in Italy: Ten years ex post evaluation and future perspectives

E Cascetta, A Cartenì, I Henke, F Pagliara - Transportation Research Part A …, 2020 - Elsevier
The deployment of HSR services in the recent decades has been, arguably, the most
significant innovation for intercity travel around the globe. HSR has brought impacts which …

Smart city construction and management by digital twins and BIM big data in COVID-19 scenario

Z Lv, D Chen, H Lv - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid development of information technology and the spread of Corona Virus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the government and urban managers are looking for ways to use …

High speed rail and urban service industry agglomeration: Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta region

S Shao, Z Tian, L Yang - Journal of Transport Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
High speed rail (HSR) services shorten space-time distances between cities and induce the
reallocation of production resources between regions (cities). Based on the data of 25 cities …

Travel costs and urban specialization patterns: Evidence from China's high speed railway system

Y Lin - Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
How does intercity passenger transportation shape urban employment and specialization
patterns? To shed light on this question I study China's High Speed Railway (HSR), an …

Non-random exposure to exogenous shocks: Theory and applications

K Borusyak, P Hull - 2020 - nber.org
We develop new tools for estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that
combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula. Examples include …

The role of transportation speed in facilitating high skilled teamwork across cities

X Dong, S Zheng, ME Kahn - Journal of Urban Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
High skilled workers gain from face to face interactions. If the skilled can move at higher
speeds, then knowledge diffusion and idea spillovers are more likely to reach greater …

When green transportation backfires: High-speed rail's impact on transport-sector carbon emissions from 315 Chinese cities

Y Ou, J Zheng, Y Liang, Z Bao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
High-speed rail is often viewed as a green transportation mode, substituting for carbon-
intensive vehicular and aviation trips. However, its potential to induce additional travel …