Railway Development

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.

Résumé
The revitalisation of railway station areas has been a hot issue in policy making in Europe in recent years. The introduction of two new railway systems - the high speed train and light rail systems - has pushed forward the redevelopment of not only railway stations themselves, but also of their - in many cases deteriorated - direct surroundings. Examples of revitali- tion of railway station areas can be found throughout Europe, for example in countries like England (Liverpool), France (Euralille), Germany (Berlin) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam South Axis). The dynamics of revitali- tion of railway station areas can best be understood by combining the - sights of several disciplines; economics, and spatial sciences being the most important disciplines. This book therefore addresses the subject from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Railway station area redevelopment projects try to cope with the - creased lack of interoperability and interconnectivity between infrastr- tures and boost the local/regional economy by creating a new high quality multifunctional urban landscape at the same time. At present, the initial outcomes with the transformation of deteriorated railway station areas into modern mixed office, shopping and residential areas stems hopeful, but what are the prospects of those redeveloped areas? Most of the papers contained in this volume were presented at the s- th cial session Railway stations and urban dynamics of the 45 conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) held in Amst- dam, the Netherlands during August 2005.

Contenu
The impact of railway development on urban dynamics.- The impact of railway development on urban dynamics.- Setting the scene.- Urban dynamics and transport infrastructure: Towards greater synergy.- Station areas as nodes and places in urban networks: An analytical tool and alternative development strategies.- HST stations and urban dynamics: Experiences from four European cities.- What makes a city: Urban quality in Euralille, Amsterdam South Axis and Rotterdam Central.- New Key Projects for station redevelopment in the Netherlands.- A multidisciplinary approach of railway station development: A case study of 's-Hertogenbosch.- Evaluation studies.- Ex ante evaluation of railway station development projects: Issues still to be solved.- Multicriteria analysis of a high-speed railway station area development project.- Cost-benefit analysis of railway station area development: The case of Amsterdam South Axis.- Measuring the WTP for shopping facilities around railway stations.- High-speed rail and urban dynamics.- The impact of high-speed railway developments on office locations: A scenario study approach.- The effect of railway stations on office space rent levels: The implication of HSL South in station Amsterdam South Axis.- Regional high-speed trains on the Svealand line: Evaluation of effects.- Rail pricing and the supply of complementary commercial goods.- Light rail and urban dynamics.- Rail system development and urban transformations: Towards a spatial decision support system.- Rail-transit and real estate values in a polycentric city: A theoretic simulation approach.- Land use variables in trip generation models: The case of the light rail transit in Tel Aviv.