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California’s High-Speed Rail Yields the Greatest Accessibility Gains to the Most Vulnerable Communities

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  • Ding, Kaijing
  • Hansen, Mark

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A major criticism of California’s high-speed rail project is that it will mainly serve urban elites and that low-income people and people of color likely won’t be able to afford the fares.2 Also, the project may benefit the middle-income group the least since the proposed station locations, usually in or near city centers, will probably serve high- and low-income populations better than middle-income families.2 Besides these arguments, however, there are very few studies that have analyzed the equity impacts of California’s high-speed rail project. Current studies have either focused on benefits to California residents as a whole with little consideration to the specific opportunities for how high- speed rail will improve the lives of marginalized groups; or only studied the disproportionate adverse impacts received by marginalized groups.

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  • Ding, Kaijing & Hansen, Mark, 2025. "California’s High-Speed Rail Yields the Greatest Accessibility Gains to the Most Vulnerable Communities," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt5m44m6zm, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
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