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The Economics of Speed – Assessing the performance of High Speed Rail in Intermodal Transportation

Year: 2012

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This study is an attempt to explore the benefit and cost of ‘speed’ on the performance of High Speed Rail. The discussion is put in the context of multimodal transportation system. Physical intuition leads us to suspect that operating cost increases nonlinearly with speed. However, the scenario is way more complicated in engineering operation. The revealed result suggests that the nonlinear increase in cost is most significant when operating maximum speed exceeds the 200 kph threshold. It also suggests that the efficiency gain from increased speed has the potential to compensate the increased cost requirement.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.04.143

Authors: Adib Kanafani, Rui Wang, Ashleigh Griffin

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: transportation and logistics systems

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: University of California Transportation Center