Growth Of Railways Research Articles

A Study on the Effect of High-Speed Railway on Economic Growth of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration

In order to measure the value of high-speed railway in the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration and provide empirical support for the rationality of “eight horizontal and eight vertical” planning, based on the impact mechanism of high-speed railway on economic growth, this paper uses the data of 13 prefecture level cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration from 2009 to 2017 to quantitatively study the economy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration triggered by high-speed railway Growth effect. The empirical results show that the overall effect of high-speed railway on economic growth of Beijing- Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration is 0.545 in the past two years, which is a large positive effect. The highspeed railway can not only directly stimulate the economic growth of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration by expanding the scale of capital investment, but also indirectly promote the economic growth of Beijing Tianjin Hebei urban agglomeration by promoting the development of system, technology, labor force and industrial structure, which proves the value of high-speed railway. Finally, according to the empirical results, it provides reasonable feasible suggestions to the relevant government departments.

Creating the Urban Corridors: The Role of Colonial Railways in India

This article argues that the pattern of urbanization in India has kept pace with the growth of railways during the British period. The colonial railways transformed India’s circulatory regime, which resulted in the emergence of social space. Towns and cities in the hinterlands of the port cities under the railways network became more urbanised. Railways, as a biggest British capitalist manoeuvre, helped in the process of industrialization and growth of trade and commerce. Some towns and cities grew up as major railway stations, terminals or junctions, divisional and zonal headquarters during the British period. The growth of railways is demonstrated in relation to the expansion in transportation of goods, passengers and employment opportunities generated. The article discerns the pattern of railway transportation and infrastructural development, which will help us to comprehend as one of the forces underlying the pattern of urbanisation in India during the British rule.

Coffee Culture in Dublin: A Brief History

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Railway Growth and Development: Turkey's Fast Track to the Future

Railway Growth and Development: Turkey's Fast Track to the Future

Confucian Patriotism and the Destruction of the Woosung Railway, 1877

The slow growth of railways is undoubtedly one of the most astonishing features of the history of modernization in China. The Chinese government often gave as its reasons for opposition to railway development the fact that improved communications would facilitate foreign military expansion, that railways obstructed the feng-shui, that mandarin and peasant alike were opposed to the railway, and that railways destroyed the livelihood of the common people. But, until recently, these explanations have never been given serious consideration, despite the fact that Ch'ing officials discussed railway-policy in these terms in a major debate in 1866–67. This is partly because historians have found it difficult to accept Chinese objections to railway development at their face-value, and partly because Chinese officials themselves, seeing that foreigners were unimpressed by Chinese arguments against railway construction, offered others which they thought would be more acceptable to the Western mind.

Clarification of Transportation - Policy Goals

The basic principle of transportation policy should be adequate, efficient transportation at reasonable, non-discriminatory cost to users. Early railway growth in the age of great territorial expansion led to a chaos of rates and services, discriminatory treatment of users, and unfair wage and labor practices by the railroads. The original objective in the regulation of railway rates and services was to prevent monopoly and to assure fair competition among the railways themselves and among the communities and industries affected. This has been implemented, but with the constant effort to fix rates which yield "cost plus fair return" to the railways while still maintaining their public-utility function. The uneven railway rate structure thus produced has coupled with vast technological change and diversification in the transportation field to encourage an array of alternative means of transportation to flourish and compete with the railways for business. Certain governmental attitudes underlying regulation have placed railways at a disadvantage in the competition. Furthermore, railway corporations themselves have followed policies of curtailment of services and merger with competing lines. The time has come for a new look, with national scope, at transport conditions with a view to returning to the original objective of regulation to provide adequate service at fair rates and with maximum preservation of competition.

The Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad and Station in Philadelphia

Progress in this country is evidenced in no way more conclusively than in the growth of railways. With their great development, their consolidation into grand trunk lines, the concentration of traffic, and the expansion of suburban travel, the necessity bas arisen in cities of the first class for great terminal railway stations in central locations, provided with all the improvements, accommodations and facilities for rapid and effective train service which modern ingenuity can devise. It is believed that an account of the construction of one of these great terminals from its inception to its completion will be of considerable interest to the profession, and it is with this object that the present paper has been prepared.