Airlines’ reaction to high-speed rail entries: Empirical study of the Northeast Asian market
By Y. Wan, H. Ha, Y. Yoshida, Anming Zhang. 2016
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We investigate the impact of the commencement of high-speed rail (HSR) services on airlines’ domestic available seats on affected routes in China, Japan, and South Korea. The study is based on a dataset covering the 1994–2012 period. We use the propensity score matching method to pair HSR affected routes with routes without HSR services. The difference-in-difference approach is used to estimate the impact of HSR entry. We find that HSR entries may, on average, lead to a more significant drop in airlines’ seat capacity in China than in Japan and Korea given similar HSR service speed. In China, HSR services with a maximum speed about 200km/h can produce strong negative impacts on medium-haul air routes but induce more air seat capacity on long-haul routes. HSR services with a maximum speed of 300km/h have little extra impact on medium-haul routes but a strong negative impact on long-haul routes. Finally, although HSR has a strong negative impact in Japan’s short-haul and medium-haul air markets, little impact is observed in its long-haul markets.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Transportation
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- On the fast track: Information acquisition costs and information production (2020, background): “11 Research demonstrates that HSR has a greater impact on travel for distances above 500 km (Wan et al. 2016), or 800 km (Chen 2017).”
- Should China further expand its high-speed rail network? Consider the low-cost carrier factor (2017, unknown): “…interactions between HSR and FSCs (Albalate et al., 2015; Bergantino et al., 2015; Fu et al., 2012; GonzálezSavignat, 2004; Takebayashi, 2014; Wan et al., 2016; Yang and Zhang, 2012; Zhang et al., 2017).2 There are only a few exceptions: for example, Clewlow et al. (2014) analyze the…”