High-Speed Rail and Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from China’s Urban Agglomerations

High - speed rail reshaping urban areas : Valencia Parque Central

High-speed became a fundamental political issue in Valencia, but also a major factor in regional planning and economic attractiveness and reactivated Valencia Parque Central project, which aim is to transform disused railways into a park and to build a station and its tracks underground. This new centrality should become the focal point of the whole urban and regional transport network. The new...

Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

This paper looks at the impact of high technology employment concentrations on urban sprawl. A methodology for translating spatial employment patterns, into place of residence patterns, is presented. On this basis, the consumption of land at the urban fringe due to both residential and nonresidential uses, is estimated. The method is tested empirically using data relating to the two main outer ...

High-Speed Rail IDEA Program FIBER OPTICAL SENSORS FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL APPLICATIONS

Tourism and Industrial Agglomeration

Tourism generates increased income and employment in host countries and regions which substantially improves local economies. On the other hand, the manufacturing sector remains the most important part in regional and national economies. By explicitly embedding a nontraded good sector into a new economic geography model, we were able to investigate the interdependence between the tourism sector...

Do China’s High-Speed-Rail Projects Promote Local Economy? ---New evidence from a panel data approach

This paper evaluates the effect of High Speed Rail (HSR) projects on the economic growth of targeted city nodes (HSR cities) in China using prefectural-level city data from 1990 to 2013. Employing a panel data program evaluation method devised by Hsiao, Chin and Wan (2012), we construct hypothetical counterfactuals for per capita real GDP of HSR cities in the absence of their respective HSR pro...