Territorial cohesion impacts of high-speed rail under different zoning systems

Emilio Ortega, Elena López and Andrés Monzón

Journal of Transport Geography, 2014, vol. 34, issue C, 16-24

Abstract: Large-scale transport infrastructure projects such as high-speed rail (HSR) produce significant effects on the spatial distribution of accessibility. These effects, commonly known as territorial cohesion effects, are receiving increasing attention in the research literature. However, there is little empirical research into the sensitivity of these cohesion results to methodological issues such as the definition of the limits of the study area or the zoning system. In a previous paper (Ortega et al., 2012), we investigated the influence of scale issues, comparing the cohesion results obtained at four different planning levels. This paper makes an additional contribution to our research with the investigation of the influence of zoning issues. We analyze the extent to which changes in the size of the units of analysis influence the measurement of spatial inequalities.

Keywords: High-speed rail (HSR); MAUP; Zoning systems; Accessibility indicators; Territorial cohesion effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.10.018

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