Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Speed Rail Systems (eBook)

This book offers new insights into the wider socio-economic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR). Over the past few decades, significant investments have been made in these systems around the world. The use of public funds for the construction of high-speed rail offers a range of benefits, such as time savings, increased comfort, and reduced traffic congestion, as well as broader economic benefits, including the advancement of less developed regions.

These proceedings feature papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on the Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Speed Rail. The focus is on HSR impacts on the environment, on the land use system, on investment, on the tourism industry, on inclusion and on cooperation vs integration with other transport modes. The book provides an overview of the current state of practice from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Consequently, it will be of interest to scholars of transportation economics and related fields, as well as transportation industry professionals.

Dr Francesca Pagliara is an associate professor in Transportation Engineering at the Polytechnic School and of the Basic Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is the author of several academic books both in Italian and in English and of more than 100 papers. She co-edited two books published by Springer and one book as author published by Springer. Her main fields of research are the wider socio-economic impacts of high-speed rail systems, public engagement in the transportation decision-making process, transit-oriented development policies, and integrated land use/transport models.