China's bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Siqi ^a   Kahn, Matthew E ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed rail; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; COST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MARKET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RAILWAY; REAL ESTATE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA; CITIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84875832570     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209247110     Document Type: Article

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