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High Speed Rail:
The economic effects and environmental efficiency with policy implications for Asian countries |
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 Monday, 5 April 2010
 NUS University Hall, Nexus |
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High-speed railways have brought a lot of economic impacts on the regional economic landscapes and are one of the most low carbon inter-city transportation systems. Whether the city or region will take a merit of economic growth or demerit of decline totally depends on its location and the related feeder transport networks linking to the hinterland.
This lecture gave a classification of the results of model analysis on the effects of Japanese Shinkansen and the policy implications for Asian countries featuring the environmental aspects of inter-city transportation by comparing air with high-speed rail, Japanese Shinkansen. According to the result of the life-cycle assessment of CO2, about 4,000 passengers per day will justify the construction of Shinkansen rather than developing air transportation. |
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