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Airline and railway disintegration in China: the case of Shanghai

Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub

Givoni, Moshe

Chen, Xueming

Transport Research Unit, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA 2

Abstract

In China, the need to integrate the air and rail networks has been identified
and dozens of transport hubs that include air and HSR links have been built
or are planned. In this research, which is complementary to Chen and
Lin, the level and potential for air–rail integration at Shanghai Hongqiao
Integrated Transport Hub is examined and analyzed. The results show that
despite the excellent infrastructure the actual level of integration is low,
while the potential benefits from such integration could be very large. It
seems that in China the main barrier for air–rail integration is institutional
and stems from the institutional (and cultural) division between air and
rail transport and from the importance placed on promoting competition
almost at any cost – both of these barriers can be said to be ‘imported’ to
China from (especially) the U.S. and Europe. But with the infrastructure
for air–rail integration in place, the potential to realize such an integration
is far greater. A move away from the uni-modal governance and planning
of transport can open the door not only to air–rail integration but to the
creation of a truly integrated transport system in China.

Keywords: air–rail integration; Highspeed rail; Hub and spoke; airlines; integrated Transport Hub; shanghai
Hongqiao; railway station; rail planning

1 Givonia, Moshe.Transport research Unit, Department of Geography and the Human environment, Tel aviv University,
Tel aviv, Israel. Email: givonim@post.tau.ac.il
2 Chenb, Xueming. L. Douglas Wilder school of Government and public affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Va, Usa

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