Assessing the employment agglomeration and social accessibility impacts of high speed rail in Eastern Australia

被引:24
作者
Hensher, David A. [1 ]
Ellison, Richard B. [1 ]
Mulley, Corinne [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sydney, Sch Business, Inst Transport & Logist Studies, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
关键词
High speed rail; Agglomeration impacts; Social accessibility; Wider economy impacts; Australia; TRANSPORT; SYDNEY; LAND;
D O I
10.1007/s11116-013-9480-7
中图分类号
TU [建筑科学];
学科分类号
0813 ;
摘要
There is growing interest in establishing additional evidence, under the umbrella of the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure projects, to support transport projects in general and public transport projects in particular that struggle to obtain benefit-cost ratios sufficient to gain the support of financial agencies. This paper focuses on one element of wider economy impacts, often referred to as effective economic (employment) density or employment agglomeration impacts, and another, less usually identified, social accessibility impact (SAI) which we refer to as effective social density, which in broad terms provide, correspondingly, evidence of the potential gains in work-related output (often referred to as productivity gains) and potential gains in non-work-related outputs. Both are associated with gains in individual and household benefit attributable to improved accessibility to services linked with populations and particular locations. The SAIs may capture some of the induced benefits in those jurisdictions where these are included routinely in benefit-cost analysis, and the methodology here is most appropriate to those settings where an existing calibrated demand curve may not be available. Using the proposed high speed rail (HSR) project between Sydney and Melbourne as the empirical setting, we identify economic agglomeration and social accessibility benefits for work and non-work related activity respectively. We find the former to be relatively small compared to the significant gains associated with non-work related travel activity, suggesting the greatest benefits associated with HSR, especially for those residents outside of the major metropolitan areas, will be non-work related travel activity.
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页数:31
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