ABSTRACT

New High-Speed Rail stations are often expected to act as catalysts for regional and local urban and economic development. Accessibility improvements are assumed to increase locational attractiveness for households and companies, motivating municipal decision-makers to allocate land for urban development projects, particularly in the immediate vicinity of new stations. However, most empirical studies call such automatic effects into question, pointing to the importance of additional local factors, such as station location within the urban context. We construct a dataset of 232 stations in 11 countries in Europe to analyse evolving station placement strategies as well as land use changes in the surroundings of High-Speed Rail stations before and after construction. We find that stations close to the existing urban fabric and well connected by complementary regional and local public transport are on average associated with more land use change, while peripheral stations outside of metropolitan regions hardly attract any development.

摘要

新的高铁站通常有望成为区域和地方城市和经济发展的催化剂。可访问性的改善被认为会增加对家庭和公司的选址吸引力，从而激励市政决策者为城市发展项目分配土地，特别是在新车站附近。然而，大多数实证研究都质疑这种自动效应，并指出额外的本地因素的重要性，例如城市环境中的车站位置。我们构建了一个包含欧洲 11 个国家的 232 个车站的数据集，以分析车站布局策略的演变以及建设前后高铁车站周边的土地利用变化。