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The Competitive Advantage of High Speed Rail: Airport and Station Accessibility as a Determinant of Mode Choice - Couverture souple

Clever, Reinhard

 
9783639103762: The Competitive Advantage of High Speed Rail: Airport and Station Accessibility as a Determinant of Mode Choice
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ISBN 10 : 3639103769 ISBN 13 : 9783639103762
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

There are many things a train can do that an airplane cannot, e.g. go underneath city streets, split up into many pieces. A metaphor will illustrate the main point of this book: dogs are often not able to catch cats even though they are faster, because dogs cannot climb trees, jump onto rooftops, squeeze underneath fences, etc. High Speed Rail (HSR) planning up to this point, especially in North America, proposed to have dogs and cats compete on a wide open field. This book assesses the internal distribution advantage of High Speed Rail vis-à-vis air. It postulates a new paradigm: convergence of heretofore individually optimized urban and intercity rail networks into one coherent intermetropolitan high speed transportation system. The in-depth study of the competition between air and HSR in Japan, a country in which the two modes compete head-on and with little regulatory interference, will help any air or rail executive better take advantage of the post-deregulation environment. However, for transportation planners in North America, where widely dispersed urban areas deprive HSR from its traditional access advantage, it is a must-read.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

There are many things a train can do that an airplane cannot, e.g. go underneath city streets, split up into many pieces. A metaphor will illustrate the main point of this book: dogs are often not able to catch cats even though they are faster, because dogs cannot climb trees, jump onto rooftops, squeeze underneath fences, etc. High Speed Rail (HSR) planning up to this point, especially in North America, proposed to have dogs and cats compete on a wide open field. This book assesses the internal distribution advantage of High Speed Rail vis-à-vis air. It postulates a new paradigm: convergence of heretofore individually optimized urban and intercity rail networks into one coherent intermetropolitan high speed transportation system. The in-depth study of the competition between air and HSR in Japan, a country in which the two modes compete head-on and with little regulatory interference, will help any air or rail executive better take advantage of the post-deregulation environment. However, for transportation planners in North America, where widely dispersed urban areas deprive HSR from its traditional access advantage, it is a must-read.

Biographie de l'auteur

Reinhard Clever obtained his MBA from the University of Miami in Florida and his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Mark M. Hansen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, supervised the dissertation on which this book is based.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639103769
ISBN 13 
9783639103762
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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