Chen, J.; Li, W.; Wu, B.; Yu, Z. Does High-Speed Railway Promote the Quality of Urbanization? From a Dynamic Network Perspective. Systems2023, 11, 523.
Chen, J.; Li, W.; Wu, B.; Yu, Z. Does High-Speed Railway Promote the Quality of Urbanization? From a Dynamic Network Perspective. Systems 2023, 11, 523.
Chen, J.; Li, W.; Wu, B.; Yu, Z. Does High-Speed Railway Promote the Quality of Urbanization? From a Dynamic Network Perspective. Systems2023, 11, 523.
Chen, J.; Li, W.; Wu, B.; Yu, Z. Does High-Speed Railway Promote the Quality of Urbanization? From a Dynamic Network Perspective. Systems 2023, 11, 523.
Abstract
Applying the improved social network analysis method and the idea of rolling window regression, this paper explores the impact of HSR network on the quality of urbanization and its dynamics. Based on a sample of 273 cities in China over 2009–2019, we find that the high-speed railway network has an increasing positive effect on the quality of urbanization, which proves the existence of network effect. The empirical results further show that this effect is closely related to the cov-erage rate of high-speed rail network. In addition, heterogeneity analysis reveals that urban ag-glomeration cities are the main beneficiaries. Academically, our study provides a plausible expla-nation and evidence from network size differences for the two conflicting views of the HSR effect. Practically, we also propose some important policy implications for countries in different high-speed rail network construction stages.
Keywords
high-speed railway; quality of urbanization; dynamic network; improved social network analysis; spatial econometric model
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Economics
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