Research on the reference value from coordinated planning for intercity and urban rail transit in regional economic circle abroad for China

Abstract

The intercity rail transit help to promote Chinese regional transportation and economic integration to a certain extent in recent years, but the “temporal and spatial distances” between cities in the same region have not been evidently shortened since the stations of intercity rail transit are mostly located in outskirts due to the impact of multi player game between planning, construction and operating entities. Based on the idea of analogy, in this paper, cases of Paris and Berlin as well as the regional economic circle around them are studied to analyze the interest coordination, line planning and connection methods between operating entities of intercity and urban rail transit. Moreover, the main features and methods of introducing intercity rail transit into downtown area is summarized, the ways of coordinate those stakeholders are discussed. At last, the countermeasures of coordinated planning for intercity and urban rail transit in China have been proposed.