Evaluating High-Speed Rail

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 different disciplines. Chapters analyse the expected effects of introducing on-track competition and designing public-private contracts to develop new lines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138123595
• ISBN-10: 1138123595
• Artikelnr.: 45665273

Autorenporträt

Daniel Albalate is an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Germà Bel is a Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

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