Höghastighetsjärnväg i en svensk kontext - potentiella vinnare och förlorare analyserat utifrån ett regionalt perspektiv
(2016) SGEL36 20161Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- This paper concerns the possible regional implications of high speed rail on medium sized cities in Sweden and attempts to analyze both possible impacts for the medium-sized cities part of a high speed network, as well as for those cities not part of such infrastructure. The chosen research question highlights precisely the above mentioned topic, with international experiences from high speed rail as a background to the analysis and with the theory of polycentricity as the framework for the analysis. To be able to conduct the analysis properly it has been necessary to study a diverse range of documents and literature on the subject of high speed rail. Public documents from municipalities as well as from planning departments on a regional... (More)
- This paper concerns the possible regional implications of high speed rail on medium sized cities in Sweden and attempts to analyze both possible impacts for the medium-sized cities part of a high speed network, as well as for those cities not part of such infrastructure. The chosen research question highlights precisely the above mentioned topic, with international experiences from high speed rail as a background to the analysis and with the theory of polycentricity as the framework for the analysis. To be able to conduct the analysis properly it has been necessary to study a diverse range of documents and literature on the subject of high speed rail. Public documents from municipalities as well as from planning departments on a regional level, describing these offices own analysis of the proposed high-speed rail project, has been studied for this paper. Also research conducted on international cases where this kind of infrastructure has been implemented and used for several decades, has formed the empirical foundation and constitutes the chosen method, namely document-analysis. The conclusion in this paper is that the construction of a high-speed rail network would probably be beneficial for the largest cities and not have polycentric effects in the sense of spreading growth and make the space more equal between the largest cities and the small- and medium sized ones. The conclusion lands in the occurrence of polarizing spatial effects due to the increased access and reduced travel time between cities and regions which draws economic activities and growth away from medium-sized cities to the largest ones. (Less)
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- author
- Simonsson, Ludvig LU
- supervisor
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- Ola Jonsson LU
- organization
- course
- SGEL36 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- High-Speed Rail, Polycentricity, Polycentrism, Spatial, Polarization, Centralization, Sweden
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8874924
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-09 12:42:37
- date last changed
- 2016-06-09 12:42:37
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abstract = {{This paper concerns the possible regional implications of high speed rail on medium sized cities in Sweden and attempts to analyze both possible impacts for the medium-sized cities part of a high speed network, as well as for those cities not part of such infrastructure. The chosen research question highlights precisely the above mentioned topic, with international experiences from high speed rail as a background to the analysis and with the theory of polycentricity as the framework for the analysis. To be able to conduct the analysis properly it has been necessary to study a diverse range of documents and literature on the subject of high speed rail. Public documents from municipalities as well as from planning departments on a regional level, describing these offices own analysis of the proposed high-speed rail project, has been studied for this paper. Also research conducted on international cases where this kind of infrastructure has been implemented and used for several decades, has formed the empirical foundation and constitutes the chosen method, namely document-analysis. The conclusion in this paper is that the construction of a high-speed rail network would probably be beneficial for the largest cities and not have polycentric effects in the sense of spreading growth and make the space more equal between the largest cities and the small- and medium sized ones. The conclusion lands in the occurrence of polarizing spatial effects due to the increased access and reduced travel time between cities and regions which draws economic activities and growth away from medium-sized cities to the largest ones.}},
author = {{Simonsson, Ludvig}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Höghastighetsjärnväg i en svensk kontext - potentiella vinnare och förlorare analyserat utifrån ett regionalt perspektiv}},
year = {{2016}},
}