• DocumentCode
    1587643
  • Title

    An analysis of the competitiveness of High Speed Rail in the Beijing-Shanghai market

  • Author

    Gao, Yi ; Zhang, Chrystal B. ; Bruce, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The introduction of High Speed Rail (HSR) between Beijing and Shanghai brings a serious challenge to airlines servicing this market. This paper assesses the competitiveness of HSR to air transport from the perspective of customers. Based on the analysis of this study, it can be seen that HSR service is very competitive in the Beijing-Shanghai market. It is believed that if airlines do not significantly improve their on-time performance and further drop airfares in the future, there is great risk for air transport to continually lose its current market share to HSR in the future.
  • Keywords
    High Speed Rail; air transport; transportation economy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    World Automation Congress (WAC), 2012
  • Conference_Location
    Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • ISSN
    2154-4824
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4497-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6321579