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Reinhard Clever, Ph.D.

The Interaction of Air and High Speed Rail in Japan

Transportation Research Record, 2043, 1-12 (2008)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the unique convergence of factors which contributed to Japan’s outstanding public transportation system.  The focus is on air and HSR. Those two modes do not complement each other as in Europe, but compete head-on in Japan. Moreover we do not have to contend with market distorting public subsidies, since both companies which operate HSR in the corridor of interest are highly profitable, and mostly so because of their HSR service.

The Japanese transportation system then provides us with an excellent environment to study the nature of competition between air and HSR (we will also touch on conventional rail where appropriate).

Individual contributors to terminal pair choice are contrasted between air and HSR and the trade-offs between accessibility, frequency, and speed analyzed in detail.

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