caa a22 4500 445890657 CHVBK 20180317145615.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11116-011-9348-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11116-011-9348-7 Financial lessons from Asian experience in constructing and operating high speed train networks [Elektronische Daten] [Mariko Utsunomiya, Kenichi Hodota] A serious interest in high speed train has been increasing all over the world. However, recent experiences in Asian countries show that high speed rail projects are not financially viable even in areas seemingly favorable to rail operations. Considering the existing intensive highway and airline network, putting public subsidies to high speed rail projects are barely justifiable from a purely economic point of view. What is required of any government which contemplates high speed rail construction as a policy option is to show taxpayers the cost/revenues difference between constructing a high speed rail line and expanding a capacity of other means, before proceeding. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 High speed rail nationallicence Ridership nationallicence Asia nationallicence Project evaluation nationallicence Utsunomiya Mariko East Japan Railway Co., 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-Ku, 151-8578, Tokyo, Japan aut Hodota Kenichi East Japan Railway Co., 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-Ku, 151-8578, Tokyo, Japan aut Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/5(2011-09-01), 753-764 0049-4488 38:5<753 2011 38 11116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-011-9348-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-011-9348-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Utsunomiya Mariko East Japan Railway Co., 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-Ku, 151-8578, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hodota Kenichi East Japan Railway Co., 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-Ku, 151-8578, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/5(2011-09-01), 753-764 0049-4488 38:5<753 2011 38 11116 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer