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 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. The 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, the authors propose a list of five challenges as a future research agenda on HSR/air transport competition and cooperation. Among others, the authors 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.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8426926
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/5121625
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Xiaoqian Sun et al.
• Authors:
  • Sun, X
  • Zhang, Yungqing
  • Wandelt, S
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 2017
  • Issue Number: Article ID 8426926
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Airlines; High speed rail; Meta-analysis; Mode choice; Regional transportation; Routes and routing; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01647164
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 2017 10:20AM