Knowlton City and Regional Planning PhD candidate Junmei Cheng and Assistant Professor Zhenhua Chen have been published in Taylor & Francis Online for their research titled "Socioeconomic impact assessments of high-Speed rail: A meta-Analysis".

The interest in the socioeconomic impact assessments of the high-speed rail (HSR) system is burgeoning as many countries are considering investing in such a system. While extensive studies have provided a wide range of evaluations of HSR on the socioeconomic impact, primarily from an ex-post perspective, it remains unclear how reliable the evaluation outcomes were, given the variety of data, method and research framework being adopted. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the socioeconomic impact studies of high-speed rail (HSR), based on 242 academic publications.

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