When green transportation backfires: High-speed rail's impact on transport-sector carbon emissions from 315 Chinese cities

Y Ou, J Zheng, Y Liang, Z Bao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
High-speed rail is often viewed as a green transportation mode, substituting for carbon-
intensive vehicular and aviation trips. However, its potential to induce additional travel …

Reducing carbon emissions: can high-speed railway contribute?

W Zhang, M Zeng, Y Zhang, CW Su - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
High-speed railway (HSR) is expected to be a breakthrough in reducing carbon emissions
from China's transport network. This study employs the staggered difference-in-differences …

How does regional integration policy affect urban resilience? Evidence from urban agglomeration in China

N Jiang, W Jiang - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban agglomerations are seen as a new spatial pattern to address the problems
encountered in urban development, with significant practical implications for enhancing the …

Deconstruct artificial intelligence's productivity impact: A new technological insight

Z Sun, S Che, J Wang - Technology in Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Some viewpoints suggest that IT investment seems to fail to significantly stimulate enterprise
productivity in some cases. Therefore, revealing the impact of AI on firm productivity is an …

[HTML][HTML] Wishful thinking? Addressing the long-term implications of COVID-19 for transport in Nigeria

E Mogaji - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With their inherent economic and infrastructure challenges, develo** countries must
assess commuters' travel behaviour and establish whether consumers' desire for …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization, land conversion, and arable land in Chinese cities: The ripple effects of high-speed rail

M Yu, Z Chen, Y Long, Y Mansury - Applied Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Since 2005, Chinese transit authorities have made substantial investments in high-speed
rail (HSR) infrastructure, driven by the ambition to connect all cities with over half a million …

The assessment of land suitability for urban development in the anticipated rapid urbanization area from the Belt and Road Initiative: A case study of Nong Khai City …

S Bamrungkhul, T Tanaka - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Belt and Road Initiative is a megaproject expected to accelerate urban growth.
However, the accompanying urban development process can endanger the environment …

Transportation infrastructure upgrading and green development efficiency: Empirical analysis with double machine learning method

S Ling, S **, H Wang, Z Zhang, Y Feng - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to deal with the environmental problems such as pollution emissions and climate
change, sustainable development in the field of transportation has gradually become a hot …

Agglomeration spillover, accessibility by high-speed rail, and urban innovation in China: A focus on the electronic information industry

Y Hou - Habitat International, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the impacts of different sources and types of agglomeration economies
on urban innovation in the context high-speed rail (HSR), using the Electronic Information …

Does green transportation affect carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in China

R Zhao, Y Jiang, X Wang, X Wei - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
The establishment of a low-carbon transportation system (LCTS) holds prominent
importance in advancing modern transportation development and achieving green growth …