Railway Development: Impacts on Urban Dynamics

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This book addresses the role of railways in urban development. The central aim is to inquire into how especially the development of high-speed rail and light rail links will affect European cities. The analyses are carried out with special attention given to the broader institutional environment of the railway system, including the shift toward privatised railway companies, internationalisation, the occurrence of market and government failures in land markets, and private-public partnerships in the development of railway station areas. The essence of the plans to invest in railway stations is that railway stations are not considered merely as nodes where people transfer from one vehicle to another, but also as places where spatial concentrations of high value activity are recognised as having a positive impact on cities. The development of real estate near stations is increasingly seen as a negotiation process in which both public and private actors play certain roles to revitalise central urban areas. Front Matter....Pages i-ix The impact of railway development on urban dynamics....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Urban dynamics and transport infrastructure: Towards greater synergy....Pages 15-33 Station areas as nodes and places in urban networks: An analytical tool and alternative development strategies....Pages 35-57 HST stations and urban dynamics: Experiences from four European cities....Pages 59-77 What makes a city: Urban quality in Euralille, Amsterdam South Axis and Rotterdam Central....Pages 79-99 New Key Projects for station redevelopment in the Netherlands....Pages 101-123 A multidisciplinary approach of railway station development: A case study of ’s-Hertogenbosch....Pages 125-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Ex ante evaluation of railway station development projects: Issues still to be solved....Pages 147-169 Multicriteria analysis of a high-speed railway station area development project....Pages 171-190 Cost-benefit analysis of railway station area development: The case of Amsterdam South Axis....Pages 191-211 Measuring the WTP for shopping facilities around railway stations....Pages 213-233 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 The impact of high-speed railway developments on office locations: A scenario study approach....Pages 237-264 The effect of railway stations on office space rent levels: The implication of HSL South in station Amsterdam South Axis....Pages 265-293 Regional high-speed trains on the Svealand line: Evaluation of effects....Pages 295-314 Rail pricing and the supply of complementary commercial goods....Pages 315-333 Front Matter....Pages 335-335 Rail system development and urban transformations: Towards a spatial decision support system....Pages 337-357 Rail-transit and real estate values in a polycentric city: A theoretic simulation approach....Pages 359-383 Land use variables in trip generation models: The case of the light rail transit in Tel Aviv....Pages 385-413 Back Matter....Pages 415-419