Abstract
The opening of the high-speed rail is a technological revolution in the transportation industry, which reflects the comprehensive strength of the country to some extent. It generated a lot of researches on high-speed rail in transportation, tourism, economy, etc. However, there are few studies on the impact of high-speed rail on regional economic development by the analytic hierarchy process. On the basis of reading and collating related literature, the paper put forward the quantitative and qualitative methods in effect of high-speed rail (HSR) on regional economic development. According to the theory of Regional Economy development and the practical condition of high-speed rail in China, this paper provides a new evaluation index system including 2 layers (direct and indirect effects), and establishing 6 indexes for the effect of high-speed rail on regional economy in China. The weights of factors in index system are gave by using Analytic Hierarchy Process. The main conclusion from the paper is that high-speed rail a direct impact on the regional economy is greater than indirect And the following of the ranking result of the indicator regional: passenger traffic>node accessibility > regional investment benefit> tourism development> regional industrial structure> urbanization levels. This is not only a great significance to the development regional economy of China, but also applicable to other districts for the development of local economies by HSR.
Highlights
This high-speed rail has great impact on domestic regional difference in economic development
Several questions related to the effectiveness of high-speed rail (HSR) operation and investment remain to be explained. Questions such as to what extent largely used HSR systems have changed regional accessibility and more fundamentally, what degree deployed HSR have changed in the proportion of the three major industries, what proportion HSR systems have influenced on regional tourism income and the number of people, and what affect regional economy for High-Speed Rail?
HSR has received an increasing attention worldwide in recent years given that node accessibility has been greatly improved both in terms of time savings and passenger volume
Summary
This high-speed rail has great impact on domestic regional difference in economic development. Foreign research of high-speed railways is represented by the French TGV and the Japanese Shinkansen Their results were as follows: urban accessibility, urban population and industrial structure were increased in various degree. Several questions related to the effectiveness of HSR operation and investment remain to be explained Questions such as to what extent largely used HSR systems have changed regional accessibility and more fundamentally, what degree deployed HSR have changed in the proportion of the three major industries, what proportion HSR systems have influenced on regional tourism income and the number of people, and what affect regional economy for High-Speed Rail?. The regional economics levels are measured using six different indexes: regional passenger traffic, regional investment benefits, node accessibility, industrial structure, urbanization levels, and tourism development. Xu Wcalculates the connectivity and accessibility indices of China’s high-speed railway network in different time periods, and find regional accessibility is increase [7]
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