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Station Area Development of MumbaiAhmedabad HighSpeed Rail Project

15 November 2018
The JICA-financed Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (HSR) Project is 505 kilometers long and will have 12 stations. With advice from Japanese experts, the HSR Corporation has almost finalized the planning of the station plaza and access roads necessary to cope with transport demand when the HSR…

Travel and LandUse Impacts of MumbaiAhmedabad HSR in Mumbai Metropolitan Region

15 November 2018
The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited of India is implementing an HSR corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad with the help of Japan International Cooperation Agency. A four-stage travel demand model has been developed, replicating the existing travel behavior and incorporating all the…

Enhancing Linkages in City Regions HighSpeed Rail and Station Area Development

15 November 2018
Countries in Europe and East Asia are expanding their high-speed rail (HSR) networks. Station areas served by HSR are emerging as new hubs of economic and cultural activities, thereby affecting the network of service sector industries in the HSR corridor. Over time HSR cities gain functional…

HighSpeed Rail as a New Mode of Intercity Passenger Transportation

15 November 2018
This presentation reviews the rapid progress of high-speed rail (HSR) construction and its successful competition with cars and air travel on distances between 100 and 1,200 km. More than 20 countries have built or are building HSR lines, but the United States is not among the leaders in HSR…

Riding on the New Silk Road Quantifying the Welfare Gains from HighSpeed Railways

14 November 2018
This presentation looks into the aggregate and distributional impacts of High-Speed Railways (HSR) in an economy with producer–supplier linkages. The HSR connection generates productivity gains by improving the efficiency of firm-to-firm matching and leading firms to search for more and better…

HighSpeed Railways Effect on Urban Spatial Correlation

14 November 2018
High-speed railway (HSR) is recognized as one of the most important modes of transport and has increasingly been given priority in regional development. A better understanding of the HSR’s effect on urban spatial correlation is important for optimizing the layout of the HSR system and promoting the…

MumbaiAhmedabad High Speed Rail Link Challenges and Opportunities

14 November 2018
Fundamental parameters for design must incorporate local conditions. This presentation looks into the case of the high-speed rail link between the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad, particularly the challenges and opportunities of the project.

Land Acquisition and Infrastructure Development through Land Trust Laws A Policy Framework for Asia

14 November 2018
The “land question” has invigorated agrarian studies and economic history since Marx and early 20th century writers on agrarian questions. In countries that allow private land ownership, compulsory land acquisition is the right and action of the government to take property not owned by it for…

How HighSpeed Rail Affects Local Land Prices An Evidence from TaipeiChina

14 November 2018
High-speed railway investment is believed to have played an important role in changing land usage and land value. This presentation shares an evaluation of the effect of high-speed railway on the land prices of targeted regions in Taipei, China by using prefectural-level data from 1993 to 2017.

Approaches to Measure Wider Economic Impacts of HighSpeed Railway and Experiences from Europe

14 November 2018
Investments in high-speed rail (HSR) have a long life and generate impacts which often cannot be allocated directly to specific projects. Therefore, conventional cost–benefit analysis is not sufficient to evaluate the overall impacts of HSR.