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Quantifying wider economic impacts of high-speed connectivity and accessibility: The case of the Karnataka high-speed rail

Sahu, S and Verma, A (2022) Quantifying wider economic impacts of high-speed connectivity and accessibility: The case of the Karnataka high-speed rail. In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 158 . pp. 141-155.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.02.011

Abstract

Inter-regional high-speed connectivity and accessibility through public transportation modes such as High-Speed Rail (HSR) are crucial for sustainable and uniform development. However, it can be a costly affair considering the enormous capital it requires against direct user benefits. Thus, quantifying Wider Economic Impacts (WEI), such as productivity changes at the organizational level, becomes an important task to include in the cost-benefit analysis. However, lack of research exists towards a method that quantifies productivity changes at an organizational (institutional or industrial) level. This study proposes an optimization problem to optimize infrastructure investment from an organizational perspective in an upcoming campus. The optimization problem manifests the impact of high-speed connectivity on organizational productivity by integrating land price elasticity and workforce availability for inter-regional movement. A case study of a new institutional IISc campus in the upcoming Science City at Challakere in the state of Karnataka, India, is taken that gives a perspective for decision-making to improve productivity for a given investment and inter-regional connectivity level. The productivity is measured in terms of the number of publications, and the transportation connectivity is assessed with four scenarios: current road network and HSR with speeds 180,250 and 320 kmph. The result of the case study shows that maximum achievable productivity gets affected with transportation connectivity level (Road < HSR 180 < HSR 250 < HSR 320). In different scenarios, Road, HSR 180, HSR 250 and HSR 320, maximum achievable productivity is 237, 266, 272 and 277, respectively. Quantifying the productivity in monetary terms has the potential of appraising cost-benefit analysis for HSR projects.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to the Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords: Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Economic and social effects; Economics; Industrial research; Investments; Optimization; Railroad transportation; Roads and streets; Speed, Agglomeration economic; Cost-benefits analysis; Economic impacts; High Speed; High speed rail; High-speed connectivity; Organisational; Productivity changes; Science city; Wide economic impact, Productivity, accessibility; agglomeration; connectivity; economic impact; high-speed train; productivity; transportation economics, India; Karnataka
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited: 24 Jun 2022 12:06
Last Modified: 24 Jun 2022 12:06
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/73709

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