High-Speed Rail Opportunities around Metropolitan Regions: Madrid and London
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 18, Issue 4
Abstract
The original main aim of high-speed rail (HSR) was to link big metropolitan areas 400–600 km apart. Recently, intermediate HSR stations have also been created in suburban areas or small cities within the limits of metropolitan areas (up to 100 km), opening up new metropolitan transportation opportunities, notably the strengthening of inward and outward commuting and through traffic across the metropolis. The argument advanced in this paper is under what conditions HSR could facilitate the development of small HSR suburban cities as special subcenters of the metropolitan area with particularly good connections to the metropolitan center and to other distant metropolises. The paper focuses on a comparative study of this new type of metropolitan HSR by analyzing the Madrid (Toledo, Segovia, and Guadalajara stations), Spain, and the London (Ashford, Ebbsfleet, and Stratford stations) cases. Infrastructure layout, station typologies, and rail services are compared together with each city’s territorial contexts, activities, and connections with other transport modes. This case-study approach, taking account of specific circumstances and contexts, facilitates the understanding of the HSR impact on metropolitan development, offering new transport alternatives.
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Acknowledgments
This article is based on research supported by two grants from the Spanish National Research Plan (Grants numbers TRA2007-68033-C03-03 and TRA2010-20749-C03-01).
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Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 18 • Issue 4 • December 2012
Pages: 305 - 313
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Mar 20, 2011
Accepted: Mar 15, 2012
Published online: Mar 19, 2012
Published in print: Dec 1, 2012
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