“…HSR changes the relative accessibility of places and impacts economic development (Haynes, 1997;Van den Berg and Pol, 1998;Givoni, 2006). To the extent HSR connects downtowns and central business districts directly, it may lessen the centrifugal effects airports and automobiles have on urban growth, although absorption by HSR of road trips in long distances is minimal (Klein, 1997, Börjesson, 2011, and improvements in metropolitan transit systems would have much stronger effect in this regard.…”