The Role of High Speed Rail in Levelling-Up the Spatial Economy

高铁对提升空间经济水平的作用

• 批准号: 2613402
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2613402
• 关键词: Role; Speed; Rail; Levelling; Up

HS2 has become symbolic of the government's ambition to "level-up"the spatial economy. This is loosely defined as achieving economicgrowth and living standards that are similar to those of the London area.But the valuation of economic impacts from high speed rail (HSR) arewidely disputed. This is in part because the main tools for assessing railenhancements are poorly suited to new HSR lines that providetransformational impacts via dramatic improvements in journey timesand connectivity. This suggests that new robust evidence that can beused to provide insights into the scheme has the potential to be bothtimely and impactful.One of the areas where new evidence is currently sought relates toagglomeration benefits - the tendency for dense areas of employmentto lead to higher productivity. Much of the existing evidence on thistopic is focussed on impacts from better accessibility for commuters,rather than on intercity connectivity - which is typically the main driverfor HSR schemes.This proposal aims to produce research that advances the scholarshipon the mechanics through which connecting cities createsagglomeration impacts, and the potential impact of HS2 Phase 2b andits contribution to levelling-up the spatial economy. It will benefit fromadvice in the areas of specialisation of two of my supervisors -Professor Graham, a leading expert on agglomeration, and ProfessorVickerman, who specialises on the impacts of HSR in the UK andabroad.

HS 2已经成为政府“升级”空间经济雄心的象征。这被粗略地定义为实现与伦敦地区相似的经济增长和生活水平。但对高速铁路（HSR）经济影响的评估却广受争议。这部分是因为用于评估铁路改进的主要工具不太适合新的高铁线路，这些线路通过显著改善旅行时间和连通性来提供转型影响。这表明，可以用来提供对该计划的深刻见解的新的有力证据有可能既及时又有效。目前寻求新证据的领域之一与集聚效益有关--就业密集地区带来更高生产率的趋势。关于这一点的现有证据大多集中在通勤者更好的可达性的影响上，而不是城际连通性-这通常是高铁计划的主要驱动力。本提案旨在进行研究，以推进对连接城市的聚集影响机制的研究，以及HS 2 2b期的潜在影响及其对提升空间经济的贡献。它将受益于我的两位导师在专业领域的专长-格雷厄姆教授，聚集方面的领先专家，以及专门研究英国和国外高铁影响的维克曼教授。