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Givoni, Moshe. Chen, Xueming.

Table 2. profile of rail services provided by airlines at Hongqiao hub.

Distance from
Airline China eastern Spring airlines Air China
Shanghai (km)
Daily flights 105 34 22

Rail destinations 8 13 9
suzhou suzhou suzhou 84
Wuxi Wuxi Wuxi 126

Changzhou Changzhou Changzhou 165
ningbo ningbo ningbo 314
Jiaxing Jiaxing Jiaxing 84
Zhenjiang Zhenjiang 237
Cities served by
the airline ‘rail’ Hangzhou Hangzhou 159
service Kunshan Kunshan 50
Yiwu Yiwu 304
Tongxiang Tongxiang 112
Hefei 468
shaoxing 202
nanjing 311
Danyang 210
Taizhou 466

The main onwards mode for airport passengers other than to the local, urban public
transport services (63%) is the private car (road network, 14%). Seventy-six percent
of daily HSR passengers in 2020 are forecast to transfer to the local public transport
services, while only 2% are expected to transfer from the ‘HSR’ to the ‘Intercity rail’
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services, from long to short distance HSR routes . Although the expected level of air-
rail integration at the hub in 2020 will not be small, the picture that emerges from the
forecast is that the hub is largely serving to connect Shanghai’s local transport network
with the long-distance, intercity transport network. Air–rail integration as a strategically
planned interface between the two of the main long-distance transport networks in China
is not really considered. The rapid development of the Chinese transport network as
well as fast changes in other sectors means the forecast in Table 3 is likely not up to
date anymore. However, it still shows the level of air–rail integration expected at the
time which illustrates the planning ‘mind set’ of those responsible for the hub’s future
development.

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