TY - GEN
T1 - Can transport infrastructure change regions' economic fortunes? some evidence from Europe and China
AU - Chia-Lin, Chen
AU - Vickerman, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Limited. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Claims and counterclaims about the likely impact of new transport infrastructure on a region's economic performance have existed for centuries. High-speed rail (hereafter HSR) as a new type of infrastructure has just over 50 years of existence. The persistent debate questions the power of HSR to reduce economic disparities between cities and effect economic transformation. The paper, which updates the analysis in Chen and Vickerman (2017), goes beyond macro-modelling, looking to more disaggregated approaches of the structural changes. Two regions, Kent in the UK and Yangtze River Delta in China are compared to gain insights for future research and practice.
AB - Claims and counterclaims about the likely impact of new transport infrastructure on a region's economic performance have existed for centuries. High-speed rail (hereafter HSR) as a new type of infrastructure has just over 50 years of existence. The persistent debate questions the power of HSR to reduce economic disparities between cities and effect economic transformation. The paper, which updates the analysis in Chen and Vickerman (2017), goes beyond macro-modelling, looking to more disaggregated approaches of the structural changes. Two regions, Kent in the UK and Yangtze River Delta in China are compared to gain insights for future research and practice.
KW - Economic Transformation
KW - High-speed Rail
KW - Regional Development
KW - Transport and Infrastructure
KW - Wider Economic Impacts
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M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85050607263
T3 - Transport and Society - Proceeding of the 22nd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2017
SP - 525
EP - 531
BT - Transport and Society - Proceeding of the 22nd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2017
A2 - Chen, Anthony
A2 - Sze, Tony N.N.
PB - Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Limited
T2 - 22nd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies: Transport and Society, HKSTS 2017
Y2 - 9 December 2017 through 11 December 2017
ER -
