ITF Round Tables The Economics of Investment in High-Speed Rail.

International Transport Forum
 Table of contents
 Executive Summary
 Chapter 1. Summary of discussions
 1. Introduction
 2. Objectives
 3. The role of high-speed rail
 4. The costs and benefits of high-speed rail
 5. Breakeven conditions
 6. Funding
 7. Indian context
 8. Conclusions
 Notes
 Acknowledgements
 Bibliography
 Chapter 2. When to invest in high-speed rail
 1. Introduction
 2. Costs and benefits of high-speed rail
 3. In what circumstances will benefits exceed costs?
 4. The high-speed rail debate in Britain
 5. Overall conclusions
 Bibliography. Chapter 3. Performance in France: From appraisal methodologies to ex-post evaluation1. Introduction
 2. The TGV in France: The product of an environment and ex-ante assessments
 3. Ex-post assessments and extension of the LGV network: How far is not too far?
 4. Conclusion
 Annex 3.A1. Ramsey-Boiteux pricing: opportunity cost of public funds and price elasticity (Crozet 2010)
 Annex 3.A2. Effective speed and effective speed for society, another indicator for determining the critical zone for a TGV
 Notes
 Bibliography
 Chapter 4. Shinkansen investment before and after JNR reform. 1. Introduction2. Outline of JNR reform
 3. Shinkansen projects in JNR and its management
 4. Shinkansen projects since JNR reform
 5. Characteristics of train operation in Japan
 6. Changes in performance and its evaluation
 7. Conclusions
 Bibliography
 Chapter 5. The financial and economic assessment of China's high-speed rail investments: A preliminary analysis
 1. Introduction
 2. The cost of building HSR infrastructure and its composition in China
 3. The initial operational performance of HSR in China
 4. Financial assessment of China's HSR investment. 5. Economic assessment of China's HSR investments6. Some tentative conclusions
 Annex 5.A1. HSR construction, design speed and HSR scale in China by 2012
 Annex 5.A2. HSR infrastructure construction costs in China by 2012
 Annex 5.A3. Estimation of traffic density on selected HS lines from 2010 to 2012
 Annex 5.A4. Estimation of break-even traffic density of HSR in China via international comparison
 Annex 5.A5 The air and HSR comparison between China (Beijing-Shanghai) and Japan (Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen). Annex 5.A6. Tariff level and estimated load factors of selected HSR lines in China in 2012Notes
 Acknowledgment
 Bibliography
 Chapter 6. New entry in the Italian high-speed rail market
 1. The Italian high-speed rail market
 List of participants.