HSR as Transit: The continuing transportation-driven evolution of metropolitan form

With high-speed rail (HSR) now often fulfilling a commuting function within an hour’s travel time from principal metropolitan cities, it becomes the latest in a long line of transportation technologies to elicit change in the metropolitan form of these cities. This paper explores this history, and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Westrom, Ryan J., Sussman, Joseph M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103017