Quantifying the Economic Impact of High-Speed Rail on Less Economically Developed Areas

Juan Wang, Eleni Bardaka, Michael Delgado, Department of Civil, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette

International Regional Science Review

Published online on March 04, 2026

Abstract

International Regional Science Review, Ahead of Print.
Little is known about how high-speed rail (HSR) affects less economically developed regions. Our study focuses on the effects of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang (Lanxin) HSR line, located in the less developed Western region of China. We estimate difference-in-...