Does high-speed rail complement or substitute other transportation modes? City-level evidence from China

IF 4.1 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101250

Yanyan Gao , Shunfeng Song , Yue Zou

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Abstract

China has been the world's largest high-speed rail (HSR) country, with a total length of over 40,000 km. While the literature has widely examined various effects of HSR, it is still rare to examine its aggregate transportation effect and the effects on road transportation. We constructed panel data from 256 Chinese prefectural-level cities between 2001 and 2019 and estimated the transportation effects of HSR using a difference-in-differences approach. Our results reveal that HSR connection does not have a significant effect on overall and highway transportation outcomes, but it increases railway passenger volumes by 36.3 % and reduces airport freight and passenger throughputs by around 45 % and 80 %, respectively. Further studies show that HSR complements highways to improve passenger transportation and substitutes conventional trains for transporting passengers. HSR also reduces buses by about 11 % but increases taxis by about 7 %. These results suggest that HSR plays more in substituting other transportation and restructuring China's transportation system.

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期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector