Noise and Air Pollution of High‐Speed Rail Systems

Wayson, Roger L.; Bowlby, William

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(1989)115:1(20)

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“…The marginal cost from air pollution of HSR is 0.368 e/1,000 pkm (Albalate and Bel, 2017). Meanwhile, a value of energy consumption of 567 kJ/passenger-kilometer was reported for a load factor of 50% for the Japanese Shinkansen, a 440 kJ/passenger-kilometer for the French TGV, and a 1,702 kJ/passenger-kilometer for the TVE (Wayson and Bowlby, 1989). The electromagnetic radiation and catenary arcing problems have been considered from HSR electric operation, as an environmental hazard to induce high voltage near the wayside on electrical components that causes a potential hazard, to cause radio frequency interference, and certain health problems (Wayson and Bowlby, 1989).…”

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The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

Almujibah

Preston

2019

Front. Built Environ.

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Constructing High-Speed Rail technology between the Saudi Arabian cities starts raising many challenging issues of a different nature ranging from technical to operational, which require huge investments in infrastructure, operations, and maintenance. However, this paper develops a new methodology to calculate the total social costs of building a new HSR worldwide and applies this using the case study of the Riyadh-Dammam corridor in Saudi Arabia. This is done through a Spreadsheet Cost Model mainly based on Microsoft Excel that includes operator cost, user cost, and external cost. In order to determine the total social costs of a Riyadh-Dammam HSR line, the annual travel demand is forecasted of 13,205,212 passengers in the first year of operation. In this case, the gravity demand model is used to forecast the demand, as a function of independent variables for the cities alongside with the proposed line such as the population, GDP per capita, the generalized journey time, unemployment rate, years since opening the corridor, and the dummy variable. As a result, the total social costs of constructing and operating the proposed HSR line is e1,090,106,913 per year resulting from the sum of the following categories. First, the total operator cost (OC) is e859,797,307 per year, which is mainly based on the total infrastructure and rolling stock costs of e750,852,759 per year and e108,944,548 per year, respectively. Second, the total user cost is e216,769,247 per year resulting from the sum of total annual passenger access/egress time, waiting time, and in-vehicle time. Finally, the total external environmental cost is e13,540,359 per year resulting from the sum of average costs of noise and air pollution, climate change, and accident.

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The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

Almujibah

Preston

2019

Front. Built Environ.

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“…Moreover, since air pollutants emitted from engines of transit vehicles may have significant adverse effects on air quality both on a regional and local scale, air pollution is considered as another environmentally oriented impediment factor. Again, available literature (for example, Khisty 1990;Dickey 1983;Flachsbart 1989;Wayson and Bowlby 1989) provides reference values for engine noise from diesel operation, noise from LRT and HRT ( dominated by noise from wheel/rail interaction), commuter exposure to motor vehicle exhaust, and relative capability of the bus, LRT, and HRT to reduce air pollution impacts.…”

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“…Another strand of research has compared HSR systems in different countries (Wayson and Bowlby ; Givoni ; Network Rail ) or has identified the environmental trade‐offs of HSR and alternative transport modes (Janic ; Givoni ; Federici et al. ; Shibahara et al.…”

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“…Another strand of research has compared HSR systems in different countries (Wayson and Bowlby 1989;Givoni 2006;Network Rail 2009) or has identified the environmental tradeoffs of HSR and alternative transport modes (Janic 2003;Givoni 2007;Federici et al 2008;Shibahara et al 2009). A comprehensive LCA was conducted by Horvath (2010, 2012) to explore the full range of environmental effects associated with the proposed California HSR.…”

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Weight under Steel Wheels: Material Stock and Flow Analysis of High‐Speed Rail in China

Wang¹,

Zhou²,

Yue³

et al. 2015

J of Industrial Ecology

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SummaryThe construction of a nation-wide high-speed rail (HSR) network has emerged as a hugely expensive and ambitious infrastructure project in China. As of December 2012, some 8,800 kilometers (km) of double-track HSR lines came into service in the country, accounting for 40% of the total HSR length in the world. The network is expected to expand to 34,000 km or longer in around two decades. As the first HSR system specially built and operated in an economically developing country, it helps integrate the sprawling economy and lift the quality of life of the increasing urban population. China's experiences in HSR are expected to be of value to other countries aiming to adopt bullet train systems, especially those at a similar level of industrialization and urbanization. This work specifically examines material stocks and flows associated with the HSR infrastructure construction in China. A major distinction from the construction of HSR tracks in Europe is that nearly 70% of the HSR tracks in China are laid upon bridges or inside tunnels, which are structures that demand great amounts of raw materials. The entire network, once completed by 2030, will cumulatively require 83 to 137 million tonnes (Mt) of steel and 560 to 920 Mt of cement. This is still a small share of China's use of material resources. Nonetheless, the massive application of the steeland cement-intensive structures deserves consideration when assessing the environmental performance of HSR over its entire life cycle.

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Noise and Air Pollution of High‐Speed Rail Systems

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The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

The Total Social Costs of Constructing and Operating a High-Speed Rail Line Using a Case Study of the Riyadh-Dammam Corridor, Saudi Arabia

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Weight under Steel Wheels: Material Stock and Flow Analysis of High‐Speed Rail in China

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