High-Speed Rail Opportunities around Metropolitan Regions: Madrid and London

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High-speed rail and regional development: the case of intermediate stations

“…The final example is that of Stratford International which was designed as a focus for urban regeneration. Its location has, however, been seen as too close to London St Pancras for international services to stop; it is only 7 min from St Pancras and the cost of the security and border control measures needed for international services in the UK would be prohibitive (see Garmendia et al, 2012, for a further discussion of the UK intermediate stations).…”

Tracks to Change or Mixed Signals? A Review of the Anglo-Saxon Literature on the Economic and Spatial Impacts of High-Speed Rail

“…Blum et al (1997) project the advent of corridor regions with integrated but dispersed labor and consumption markets. Sasaki et al (1997) have modeled the potential for spatial dispersion of economic activities among Japanese HSR station-cities, and Garmendia et al (2008), Garmendia, Ribalaygua, and Ureñ a (2012) and Garmendia, Romero, Ureñ a, Coronado, and Vickerman (2012) have hypothesized the integration of smaller cities into the metropolitan region, encouraging the development of polycentric urban forms. Button (1990) and Bruinsma and Rietveld (1993), on the other hand, have argued that increased inequality between locations will emerge as a result of the differential increase in accessibility.…”

“…In Germany, Ahlfeldt and Fedderson (2009) found that small cities along the KolnFrankfurt HSR corridor saw substantial increases in their Gross Domestic Product compared to other local towns. In Spain, small and intermediate cities on the HSR network, less than one hour (or up to 100 km) away from major metropolitan centers, accrued population growth, thanks to their integration to the larger metropolitan network, which also helped them attract new economic activities and housing investments (Garmendia, Ribalaygua, et al, 2012;Garmendia, Romero, et al, 2012; Ureñ a, Coronado, . For example, some workers now live in Ciudad Real, a small city 50 minutes from Madrid on the HSR line, and commute to Madrid for work (Garmendia et al, 2008).…”

“…For example, some workers now live in Ciudad Real, a small city 50 minutes from Madrid on the HSR line, and commute to Madrid for work (Garmendia et al, 2008). Indeed, according to Garmendia, Ribalaygua, et al (2012) and Garmendia, Romero, et al (2012), under certain circumstances (e.g. good station location and urban and transportation services), small cities on the HSR network that are less than 100 km away from a major metropolitan center, have the potential to transform into metropolitan sub-centers.…”

The impact of high-speed railway on tourism spatial structures between two adjoining metropolitan cities in China: Beijing and Tianjin

“…Previous studies have examined HSR's impacts on regional mediumsized cities in France and Spain (Bazin et al, 2006;Coronado et al, 2013;Ureña et al, 2009), on metropolitan cities including Madrid, Paris, and Rome (Delaplace et al, 2014;Garmendia et al, 2012;Pagliara et al, 2015), on the intermediate areas between major metropolitan areas (Vickerman, 2015), and on cities along HSR routes (Chen and Haynes, 2015;Wang et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2014b;Yan et al, 2014). Empirical studies conducted in China show that there has been an increase in accessibility of all cities and regions along HSR lines (Liu and Zhang, 2018).…”