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How Can High Speed Railway Survive the Competition from Civil Aviation?

In: Liss 2012

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  • Hongchang Li

    (Beijing Jiaotong University)

  • Xujuan Kuang

    (Civil Aviation Management Institute of China)

Abstract

With the implementation of Medium and Long Term Railway Network Plan 2008, Chinese high speed railway gradually came into being. In order to cope with competition from high speed railway, civil aviation put forward comprehensive strategies including cost, big-client, on-web check-in, price and etc. Under such a circumstance, it’s of great importance for high speed railway to adopt corresponding strategies to improve its core competence. High speed railway and civil aviation have their comparative advantages as to distance, speed, price, safety and energy consumption and etc. Time model shows that, within 1,000 km, high speed railway dominates market share because of its time saving characteristics, while above 1,000 km, civil aviation has comparative advantage. In order to improve consumer’s surplus and gain market competition edge, high speed railway can take strategies of product, price, place, promotion, resource, competition and cooperation, knot and informationization.

Suggested Citation

  • Hongchang Li & Xujuan Kuang, 2013. "How Can High Speed Railway Survive the Competition from Civil Aviation?," Springer Books, in: Zhenji Zhang & Runtong Zhang & Juliang Zhang (ed.), Liss 2012, edition 127, pages 453-461, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-32054-5_66
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32054-5_66
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