1st Edition

Evaluating High-Speed Rail Interdisciplinary perspectives

Edited By Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

High-speed Rail (HSR) is a technological transportation advance that has raised the interest of policy makers and researchers worldwide. The study of High-speed Rail is a recent phenomenon but has received increasing attention due to the extension of this mode of transportation around the globe. Evaluating High-Speed Rail contains some of the most recent and cutting edge studies on HSR from... Read more

Chapter 1: An evidence-based review of key issues in High-Speed Rail





Chapter 2: The economic evaluation of major infrastructure projects: Notes on HSR projects





Chapter 3: Financial and Social Profitability of HSR in Spain





Chapter 4: Direct and Indirect Effects of High Speed Rail





Chapter 5: High-speed rail services and tourism expansion: the need for cooperation





Chapter 6: HSR and the City: Accessibility to stations and intermodality





Chapter 7: Environmental Performance And Implications Of High Speed Rail





Chapter 8: Environmental Assessment of High Speed Rail





Chapter 9: Reality and opportunities for on-track competition in HSR





Chapter 10: Assessing the high-speed rail competing with airlines: a critical perspective





Chapter 11: High Speed Rail and PPPs: Between Optimization and Opportunism

Biography

Daniel Albalate is an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.



Germà Bel is a Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.