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Komei Sasaki & Tadahiro Ohashi & Asao Ando, 1997.Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo & Nancy Qian, 2012.ДЎ7897, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.' On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China,' Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther & Qian, Nancy, 2012.In the robustness test, consistent results were obtained by replacing the economic growth measurement methods, changing the time breakpoint and conducting a counterfactual test. Third, high-speed rail construction exerted a greater influence on the economic development level of big cities and had no significant impact on the economic development level of small and medium-sized cities along the high-speed rails. Second, high-speed rail opening had a significant impact on the industrial structure of cities along high-speed rails, increased the proportion of the tertiary industry and reduced the proportion of the secondary industry. First, high-speed rail opening failed to promote the economic growth of cities along high-speed rails in the short term, but accelerated the economic diffusion of cities along high-speed rails over time. The following findings were obtained in our study. In this paper, the economic impact of high-speed rail opening on these cities was examined by considering cities along China's вЂњfour vertical and four horizontalвЂќ high-speed rail lines as observation objects and using вЂњnight lighting data,вЂќ key economic indicators, and the difference-in-difference model with matching method. However, it still needs to test whether high-speed rail construction can change the development fate of these cities. Local governments have made a huge investment in high-speed rail construction, aiming to promot economic agglomeration around stations by compressing spatial distance, and produce a spillover effect on the local economy. It reveals significant differences between Asia and Europe, but also within these regions remarkable differences are found.In order to promote economic growth and coordinated regional development, the Chinese government has built and operated more than 25,000 km of high-speed rail. This study identifies the most efficient high-speed rail systems and the contributing factors in achieving high performance in production and marketing. To investigate the production efficiency and service effectiveness of the high-speed railways under study, a performance matrix is introduced. Four Asian and four European high-speed rail systems are compared using the actual system characteristics and performance between 20. Based on the current knowledge and experience, Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) in combination with the Malmquist Productivity Index was chosen for the benchmark. This study was initiated as, to our knowledge, no objective comparison of high-speed rail systems is available.

Benchmarking of these systems in operation may give guidance to best practices in this sector to learn from. In their search to optimize the utilization of high-speed rail systems governments and railway companies may benefit from good practices in the rest of the world.

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