High Speed Rail Transport Valuation

High Speed Rail Transport Valuation and Conjuncture Shocks

In the present paper we derive the optimal investment policy of investment in the high speed rail (HSR) project, under uncertainty, using the real options analysis (ROA) framework. We assume that the HSR demand, the main source of uncertainty, follows a geometric brownian motion with random jumps, complying with abrupt change of level caused by random events. The occurrence of such events is ca...

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

Accessibility impacts of high-speed rail

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Powering the world’s high-speed rail networks

Today, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan all have high-speed lines in operation. Many other countries, including Brazil, India, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, either have high-speed rail systems under construction or under development. Within the next few years, the world’s high-speed rail network co...

When to invest in high speed rail