TOWARDS A MORE ACCURATE EQUITY EVALUATION FOR MAJOR TRANS-REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE XIAMEN-SHENZHEN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY

The construction of high-speed railway in China needs numerous innovative talents of high level. In this paper, a summary of the current talent training system is first presented, including the curriculums, teaching materials, teaching mode and standards, etc. The requirements of innovative talents of high level in high-speed railway domain are then analyzed, based on which the talent training countermeasure are finally emphasized.

With great development in the last decade, the operation of high speed railway in China has entered into network era from single line era. With expanded service area and long traveling time, the high speed railway in China is qualified for overnight operation in net structure and time space, which is significantly different from that of high speed railway in other countries and areas. The overnight operation of high speed railway is of significance for capacity utilization improvement, besides diverse travelling demand. The service area and operation demand of high speed railway from Beijing to Guangzhou were analyzed. The alternatives of overnight operation mode are waiting, transferring to adjacent parallel traditional line, running and maintenance in adjacent lines meanwhile and passenger transferring, and their technical conditions, organization features and adaptability are presented respectively. With the basic information of high speed railway from Beijing to Guangzhou, the waiting mode was selected as the preferable overnight operation mode, and the optimized maintenance curfew scheme was proposed to increase the travelling speed. The work in this paper on operation mode and rational travelling distance is salutary and leading, which provides particular supports for overnight operation in Chinese high speed railway.

With the construction and operation of Baoji-Lanzhou & Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway (HSR), the distance is closed between East China and West by rapidly developed of HSR in China. The pattern of Baoji-Lanzhou transportation corridor will be changed. In this paper, based on investigation of passengers’ travel characteristic, in∞uencing factors of passengers travel was analyzed, utility function was used by addition and multiplication, and modifled Logit mode share model was established. Every transportation mode share was forecasted in the corridor after operation of HSR. In the last, sensitivity of mode share of price and velocity was analyzed in increasing railway transportation e‐ciency and meeting travel demand, and then, the operation strategies were proposed.

The main body of technological innovation in China's high-speed railway industry - universities and research institutions, high-speed railway construction enterprises and the government - are connected by the demand for high-speed railway construction, forming a "triple helix" relationship structure where three forces intersect and influence, stick together and spiral upwards. High speed railway construction enterprises play a leading role in China's high-speed railway technological innovation and construction process, universities and research institutions play a crucial role in technological research and development in China's high-speed railway technological innovation and construction process, and the government team led by the Ministry of Railways plays the role of organizers and commanders in China's high-speed railway technological innovation and construction process.

Japanese society has always been concerned about noise issues in the environmental protection of high-speed railways, and various efforts have been made administratively and technically to address high-speed railway noise issues. Administrative efforts include regulatory measures such as setting environmental standards for high-speed railway noise and noise measurement and assessment; technical efforts include testing and control using appropriate means for various railway noise sources. The environmental noise problem of the Shinkansen has become one of the key factors limiting the ability of the Shinkansen to increase its operating speed. China's high-speed railway construction has been developing rapidly since 2008, and increasing attention is being paid to environmental protection. With the increase in China's high-speed railway construction lines and the gradual increase in high-speed railway speed, China's high-speed railway’s new higher-speed technology shall be put into operation in the future. The issue of high-speed railway noise control is also becoming increasingly important to China. China's high-speed railways have applied both active and passive noise reduction technologies, but in view of the research on high-speed railway noise control the concept and design of environmental protection, especially noise control, of the Japanese Shinkansen railway was carried out relatively early, and the research on advanced technology of some Shinkansen noise control measures has certain significance for China's high-speed railway operations.

With great-leap-forward development in the last decade, the operation of high speed railway in China has entered into network era from single line. With expanded service area and long traveling time, the high speed railway in China is qualified for overnight operation in net structure and time space, which is significantly different from that of high speed railway in other countries and areas. The overnight operation of high speed railway is of significance for capacity utilization improvement, besides diverse travelling demand in time horizon. Waiting, transferring, running and maintenance in adjacent lines meanwhile, and periodic operation are the alternative modes for overnight operation. The technical condition, operation feature and applicability are presented, respectively. With rational range of departure time from original station and arrival time at destination, spatial span of network in vertical and horizontal direction, maintenance demand taken into consideration, the rational travelling distance of overnight high speed train are calculated with different operation mode and travelling speed. The work in this paper on operation mode and rational travelling distance is salutary and leading, which provides particular supports for night operation in Chinese high speed railway, in theory and technique.

The correlation between HSR construction and economic development – Empirical study of Chinese cities

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the impact of high-speed railway on urban economy: Empirical study of Chinese cities

With the world railway coming into the optimum development stage whose main driving forces are technological and managerial innovations, the technologies of the high-speed railway operation and management play a very important role in promoting the development of the railroad. They have influenced technological innovation to a certain extent and have become the key factors in the development of the railway. The job of China's high-speed railway operation and management is still in its infancy. Summarizing and improving the key technologies of high-speed railway operation and management and researching the trend of the future development of high-speed railway operation and management technology, all have constructive meanings for building an innovative system for China's high-speed railway operation and management technology. By using technologies of the high-speed railway operation management at home and abroad and combining the managerial achievements of existing technology, the paper researches and gets the best suitable technologies for the operation and management of China's high-speed railway.

Does high-speed railway strengthen the ties among nearby regions? Evidence from China

In respect to the solving of large-scale population mobility status a high-speed railway mode of transportation that is reliable, safe, efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly is needed. At present, the pace for China’s high-speed railway construction is accelerating. The construction of high-speed railway will not only bring about a new leap in China’s economic development, but also will lead to the whole transportation system to be faced with new changes and reorganization. Therefore, there is a need for new missions for the transportation planning, such as the linking between high-speed railways and other transport facilities. In addition, the construction of low-carbon, efficient and intensive transportation system are of mandatory. The paper presents the ideas and methods of the new-aged planning of transport facilities adjacent to the high-speed railway stations taking transportation planning of the South Songjiang New Town as a case study. The analysis provides reference for the planning and construction of high-speed railways in China and any other party of the world.

Operation and Organization Management of High-speed Railway in Japan

The optimization problems of train timetabling and platforming are two crucial problems in high-speed railway operation; these problems are typically considered sequentially and independently. With the construction of high-speed railways, an increasing number of interactions between trains on multiple lines have led to resource assignment difficulties at hub stations. To coordinate station resources for multiline train timetables, this study fully considered the resources of track segments, station throat areas, and platforms to design a three-part space-time (TPST) framework from a mesoscopic perspective to generate a train timetable and station track assignment simultaneously. A 0-1 integer programming model is proposed, whose objective is to minimize the total weighted train running costs. The construction of a set of incompatible vertexes and links facilitates the expression of difficult constraints. Finally, example results verify the validity and practicability of our proposed method, which can generate conflict-free train timetables with a station track allocation plan for multiple railway lines at the same time.

This paper examines the potential of infrastructure improvements, particularly the operation of High-speed railway (HSR), to enhance the energy efficiency of firms. By regarding the operation of the China’s HSR as an exogenous shock, this paper relies on a difference-in-differences estimation to isolate the causal effect of the infrastructure improvement on manufacturing firms’ energy intensity. This paper finds that the operation of HSR has improved the manufacturing firms’ energy intensity through the catalyzing the proliferation of advanced management techniques, and this effect gradually decreases with the increase in distance between the firm and the HSR station. Moreover, HSR indirectly decreases energy intensity by fostering technological innovation, decreasing debt financing costs, and extending debt financing magnitude. The study also uncovers heterogeneous effects of HSR connectivity on manufacturing firms’ energy intensity, which are more pronounced in smaller cities and industries characterized by high concentration and low agglomeration. Furthermore, the impact of HSR connectivity on reducing energy intensity is more substantial in state-owned and larger firms compared to non-state-owned and smaller firms. JEL Classification: Q43, O13, R41, L60

When the high-speed railway traffic is being organized, it becomes necessary to elaborate bridge design standards for high-speed railways (HSR). Methodology of studying the issues of HSR bridge design is based on the comprehensive analysis of domestic research as well as international experience in design, construction and operation of high-speed railways. Serious requirements are imposed on the HSR artificial structures, which raise a number of scientific tasks associated mainly with the issues of the dynamic interaction of the rolling stock and the bridge elements. To ensure safety of traffic and reliability of bridges during the whole period of operation one needs to resolve the dynamic problems of various types of high-speed trains moving along the structures. The article analyses dependences of the magnitude of inertial response on the external stress parameters and proposes a simplified method of determination of the dynamic live load factor caused by the passage of high-speed trains. The usefulness of the given research arises from the reduction of complexity of the complicated dynamic calculations needed to describe a high-speed train travelling along the artificial structures.