Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda
The development of high-speed rail (HSR) services throughout the last decades has gradually blurred the concept of competition and cooperation with air transportation. There is a wide range of studies on this subject, with a particular focus on single lines or smaller regions. This article synthesiz...
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| description | The development of high-speed rail (HSR) services throughout the last decades has gradually blurred the concept of competition and cooperation with air transportation. There is a wide range of studies on this subject, with a particular focus on single lines or smaller regions. This article synthesizes and discusses recently published studies in this area, while aiming to identify commonalities and deviations among different regions throughout the world, covering services from Europe, Asia, and North America. Our meta-analysis reveals that the literature is highly controversial and the results vary substantially from one region to another, and a generalization is difficult, given route-specific characteristics, such as demand distribution, network structure, and evolution of transportation modes. As a major contribution, we propose a list of five challenges as a future research agenda on HSR/air transport competition and cooperation. Among others, we see a need for the construction of an open-source dataset for large-scale multimodal transport systems, the comprehensive assessment of new emerging transport modes, and also taking into account the resilience of multimodal transport systems under disruption. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3b2b6e91dfb04b0b9a6c18111569ed7d2025-02-03T06:14:05ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952017-01-01201710.1155/2017/84269268426926Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research AgendaXiaoqian Sun0Yu Zhang1Sebastian Wandelt2School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USASchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaThe development of high-speed rail (HSR) services throughout the last decades has gradually blurred the concept of competition and cooperation with air transportation. There is a wide range of studies on this subject, with a particular focus on single lines or smaller regions. This article synthesizes and discusses recently published studies in this area, while aiming to identify commonalities and deviations among different regions throughout the world, covering services from Europe, Asia, and North America. Our meta-analysis reveals that the literature is highly controversial and the results vary substantially from one region to another, and a generalization is difficult, given route-specific characteristics, such as demand distribution, network structure, and evolution of transportation modes. As a major contribution, we propose a list of five challenges as a future research agenda on HSR/air transport competition and cooperation. Among others, we see a need for the construction of an open-source dataset for large-scale multimodal transport systems, the comprehensive assessment of new emerging transport modes, and also taking into account the resilience of multimodal transport systems under disruption.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8426926 |
| spellingShingle | Xiaoqian Sun Yu Zhang Sebastian Wandelt Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda Journal of Advanced Transportation |
| title | Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda |
| title_full | Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda |
| title_fullStr | Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda |
| title_short | Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8426926 |
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