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Schematic for the operating route of Taiwan High Speed Rail (Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation [20]).
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Much research has verified that the active development of the High Speed Rail (HSR) can create business activities and promote tourism growth. However, based on the related research review, there is currently a lack of profound discussion on the development of the overall transportation system and tourism growth in Taiwan, thus, this study intends...
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... high-volume, safe, fast, punctual, and high-quality service has changed Taiwan's western corridor into a "one-day living circle". Twelve stations are planned along the HSR line (as shown in Figure 1). Eight stations were launched in 2007; Miaoli, Changhua, and Yunlin Station (three stations) were launched in 2015, and Nangang Station was launched in 2016. ...
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... They cover research scope, such as countries (T. Huang et al., 2019), provinces (He et al., 2021), and economic belts (Yang & Li, 2020), and focus on temporal and spatial evolution (Pagliara & Mauriello, 2019), the relationship (Jou & Chen, 2020), development efficiency (Zeng et al., 2021), the time-space compression effect (T. , influencing factors (Holesˇinska´et al., 2022), and the expost effects (Albalate et al., 2022). With the development of HSR construction, some scholars have also conducted joint research on the HSR system and sustainable tourism, especially in the pattern. ...
This study highlights the role of a high-speed railway system in driving the tourism industry, as the tourism market prepares to achieve sustainable development after the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering the example of southwestern China, this study summarizes the configuration patterns of sustainable tourism development based on the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method, and subsequently uses the gravity model to express its core factor based on the ArcGIS platform. The study found that the tourism development pattern in this area was not homogenous, but rather a combination of six equivalent patterns (namely configured pattern). Tourism Economic Connection was the core variable to promote tourism development. Therefore, based on the configurational theory, each city should determine its own pattern and accordingly develop strengths as well as complement weaknesses. Furthermore, determined by the complexity theory, cities should capitalize on the strength of the high-speed railway system and learn from the accomplishments realized in other cities.
... However, with the development of HSRs, the southwest mountainous region has gradually gained a "late developing advantage" of economic development. After the aforementioned, it can be concluded that thanks to the implementation of the HSRs, the less favored areas will see a positive impact on the tourist economy, resulting in a sustainable improvement in the tourist attractiveness, and thus could see an increase in the number of tourists [2,3]. ...
... As a representative of modern transportation, an HSR can improve the efficiency of the tourism industry, bring significant changes [6], and promote tourism to become the pillar of economic development [7]. The impact of HSRs on tourism is reflected in many aspects, such as local economic development [8], knowledge economy [9], sustainable development [10], tourism source market [11], tourism attraction [2,3], spatial spillover and economic growth [12], spatiotemporal accessibility [13], selectivity of tourism destination [14], tourism culture and language communication [7], and accessibility gains [15]. Moreover, on a positive note, it should be noted that mountainous areas are safe and reliable due to the fact that they have managed to overcome the negative impacts of earthquakes [16], wind load [17], and long slopes [18] in both railway infrastructure and locomotive and wagons. ...
... Regressions (3)(4)(5)) are the regional regression results. It can be seen that the coefficients of HSR are negative but not significant. ...
... However, with the development of HSRs, the southwest mountainous region has gradually gained a "late developing advantage" of economic development. After the aforementioned, it can be concluded that thanks to the implementation of the HSRs, the less favored areas will see a positive impact on the tourist economy, resulting in a sustainable improvement in the tourist attractiveness, and thus could see an increase in the number of tourists [2,3]. ...
... As a representative of modern transportation, an HSR can improve the efficiency of the tourism industry, bring significant changes [6], and promote tourism to become the pillar of economic development [7]. The impact of HSRs on tourism is reflected in many aspects, such as local economic development [8], knowledge economy [9], sustainable development [10], tourism source market [11], tourism attraction [2,3], spatial spillover and economic growth [12], spatiotemporal accessibility [13], selectivity of tourism destination [14], tourism culture and language communication [7], and accessibility gains [15]. Moreover, on a positive note, it should be noted that mountainous areas are safe and reliable due to the fact that they have managed to overcome the negative impacts of earthquakes [16], wind load [17], and long slopes [18] in both railway infrastructure and locomotive and wagons. ...
... Regressions (3)(4)(5)) are the regional regression results. It can be seen that the coefficients of HSR are negative but not significant. ...
This study focuses on the early stage of high-speed railways (HSRs) and corrects problems in a timely manner and integrates the direction for tourism development. Its aim is to realize the sustainable development of mountain tourism in the southwest region of China. Based on the panel data from 2010 to 2019 of 39 cities in Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces, which are in the southwest mountainous region of China, and using data envelope analyses, the Malmquist productivity index, the Tobit model, and the intermediary effect, this study verifies the impact of core factors on the development efficiency of mountain tourism in the early stage of an HSR to find the problems existing in tourism development at present and in future stages. Results show the following: (1) In its early stage, an HSR is not yet the key factor to improve the efficiency of tourism development in the mountainous region. (2) The promotion effect of an HSR on the efficiency of tourism development is delayed. (3) In its early stage, an HSR breaks the balance of resource investment and wastes resources. (4) Taking HSRs is born out of the rigid demand of residents in the mountainous region rather than of their income levels. (5) Accessibility in mountain tourism plays a positive role between HSRs and the efficiency of tourism development.
... HSR can increase the development potential of cities, drive the growth of urban land prices [4,5], and stimulate substantial increases in housing prices [6]. As an efficient, fast, green, and environmentally friendly means of transportation, the opening of HSR can greatly promote the improvement of traffic accessibility, reduce travel time costs [7,8], promote the rapid development of the tourism industry [9], and have a significantly positive effect on the improvement of the regional environment [10]. Also, the opening of HSR can attract more opportunities for economic development, and the construction, operation, maintenance, and management of HSR require a large amount of skilled labor, which creates abundant employment opportunities. ...
Studying the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) on economic growth has important practical significance and can provide a theoretical basis for government investment in infrastructure. In this study, the adoption of HSR was used for natural and rigorous exploration. Based on the panel data on counties in Hubei Province of China from 2001 to 2017, a synthetic control method was used to analyse the impact of HSR on the economic growth of county-level areas with different economic bases. The results showed that HSR had different influences on the economic development of county-level cities with different economic bases in the short term. The Wuhan-Guangzhou HSR had significantly promoted the gross domestic product (GDP) growth of Chibi City with a good economic foundation. The robustness test results revealed that the promoting effect was significant at a level of 3.7%. The Hefei-Wuhan section of the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu HSR had significantly inhibited the GDP growth of Hong’an County by developing on a weak economic foundation. The robustness test results revealed that the inhibitory effect was significant at the level of 2.8%. However, the Hefei-Wuhan section had a stable and promoting effect on Macheng City. Based on the abovementioned conclusions, each county-level city should focus on long-term economic development, invest in HSR construction based on local conditions instead of blind expansion, make use of HSR to vigorously develop characteristic industries, and implement talent retention and introduction policies.
... In China, the expansion of the high-speed rail (HSR) network optimizes and upgrades tourism transportation and facilitates further high-quality development of urban tourism [1]. The fundamental reason is that the opening of the HSR brings significant changes to the accessibility [2][3][4][5] and spatial structure [6][7][8][9] of city destinations, the structure of source markets [10][11][12], and the spatiotemporal distribution of tourist flows [11,13]. ...
In China, the opening of high-speed rails (HSR) brings significant changes to the source-destination spatial distance, the accessibility of destinations, and the spatial structure of tourist flows in each region, exerting varied HSR effects on different types of cities. Against this backdrop, it is meaningful to deeply explore tourists’ preference for city destinations in the light of HSR effects. The exploration could contribute greatly to the planning, marketing, management, and sustainable development of urban tourism. This paper takes Xiangtan and Yueyang as typical cases of the diffusion effect and the corridor effect of HSR. Firstly, the factors affecting destination choice were identified, and the attribute levels were configured, forming multiple virtual alternatives. Next, questionnaire surveys were carried out to collect tourists’ selections between each pair of alternatives. Further, a discrete choice model was constructed to assign a weight to each factor, reflecting its importance to tourists’ decision-making regarding their destination selection and to disclose the law of tourists’ preferences for destinations. The results showed that (1) Under the HSR diffusion effect, the top three factors affecting tourists’ preference for destinations in Xiangtan are convenience, connection time, and popularity; under HSR corridor effect, the top three factors affecting the tourists’ preference for destinations in Yueyang are reputation, convenience, and leisure and reception facilities (LRFs). (2) The destination preference is closely associated with personal features like gender, income, occupation, and fellow travelers. Tourists with different personal features give different attention to the various influencing factors. The research findings provide a reference for the sustainable development of urban tourism.
... Большие города с разнообразными туристическими маршрутами и достопримечательностями более чувствительны к открытию высокоскоростных железнодорожных магистралей, нежели города поменьше. Так, несмотря на то, что высокоскоростная железнодорожная магистраль в Тайване, соединяет 12 населенных пунктов, значительное увеличение количества прибывших туристов отмечается только в 5 городах [20]. Соответственно, повышение транспортной доступности может оказывать определенное влияние на развитие туризма при условии развитой туристической инфраструктуры и наличия культурных достопримечательностей. ...
Background: One of the current trends of modern transport systems development process is innovative technologies application aimed to rational use of resources, which is confirmed by the development of high-speed rail supposing to reduce travel time costs. The world practice of high-speed railway projects implementation verifies variety of transport availability influences on social and economic sphere that allows to consider HSR not only as the transport innovation defining competitiveness of railway transport, but also as the economic stimulation tool for territory development. Aim: to substantiate the formation mechanism of external effects from high-speed rail transport projects implementation. Methods: the study was conducted by means of scientific methods such as the systematic method, comparative analysis, analogy, generalization and abstraction, synthesis, induction. Results: the formation mechanism of external effects from the transport accessibility improving caused by HSR projects implementation was specified, which allows considering HSR projects as a tool for economic development. The dual nature of the relationship between the high-speed rail efficiency, which ensure the external effects formation, and integration transport processes that affect transport accessibility was revealed.
In the global community, socially responsible investment (ESG) is becoming a trend, and when deciding whether to invest in financial instruments or a company, along with economic indicators, the degree of impact on both society and the environment is assessed. High-speed rail transport reduces the harmful emissions of pollutants to air, water and soil, and also has a lower noise level compared to road or air transport. The emergence of new materials and technologies is consistently increasing the speed records that rail transport can reach, and in combination with environmental friendliness, it can be called the "Transport of the future".
