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Modeling the Spatiotemporal Urban Spillover Effect of High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Development A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Miyazawa, Satoshi; Wetwitoo, Jetpan; Seetharam, K. E. Working Paper Modeling the spatiotemporal urban spillover effect of high-speed rail infrastructure development ADBI Working Paper Series, No. 960 Provided in Cooperation with: Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo Suggested Citation: Miyazawa, Satoshi; Wetwitoo, Jetpan; Seetharam, K. E. (2019) : Modeling the spatiotemporal urban spillover effect of high-speed rail infrastructure development, ADBI Working Paper Series, No. 960, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/222727 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ www.econstor.eu ADBI Working Paper Series MODELING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL URBAN SPILLOVER EFFECT OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT Satoshi Miyazawa, Jetpan Wetwitoo, and KE Seetha Ram No. 960 May 2019 Asian Development Bank Institute Satoshi Miyazawa is a project researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science of the University of Tokyo and a project consultant at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Jetpan Wetwitoo is a consultant from Creative Research and Planning Co. in Tokyo. KE Seetha Ram is senior consulting specialist for capacity building and training projects at ADBI. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms. Working papers are subject to formal revision and correction before they are finalized and considered published. The Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI’s working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. Suggested citation: Miyazawa, S., J. Wetwitoo, and KE Seetha Ram. 2019. Modeling the Spatiotemporal Urban Spillover Effect of High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Development. ADBI Working Paper 960. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute. Available: https://www.adb.org/publications/modeling-spatiotemporal-urban-spillover-effect-hsr- infrastructure-development Please contact the authors for information about this paper. Email: [email protected] Asian Development Bank Institute Kasumigaseki Building, 8th Floor 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6008, Japan Tel: +81-3-3593-5500 Fax: +81-3-3593-5571 URL: www.adbi.org E-mail: [email protected] © 2019 Asian Development Bank Institute ADBI Working Paper 960 Miyazawa et al. Abstract The study introduces and applies the concept of spillover effects to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact on increasing the regional tax revenue. The previous study covered JR-Kyushu’s development of the Kyushu Shinkansen (Kagoshima Route) in Kyushu region, Japan. The construction started in 1991, and it commenced operation in 2004 and became fully operational in 2011. This study aims to extend the idea to spatiotemporal modeling and analysis by developing a spillover effect extent estimation model. We use spatiotemporal land cover, land price panel, and municipality tax revenue data to conduct a preliminary analysis to understand the regional trend. The preliminary analysis suggests that the land price and the property tax revenue increased in the municipalities around high-speed rail stations during the construction period of the Kyushu Shinkansen. However, the trend around each station varied during the operation period. Our model takes those input data and estimates the spillover extent in a 1 km grid of land cover to highlight the characteristics of the spillover effect around each station. It optimizes the extent based on the compound annual growth rate in each target phase of high-speed rail (HSR) development. The result suggests that some of the features around stations promote the spillover effect while other features may obstruct it. Keywords: high-speed rail, urban development, spillover effect extent estimation model JEL Classification: O18, R4, R42 ADBI Working Paper 960 Miyazawa et al. Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ..................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Key Idea .......................................................................................................... 1 2. RELATED WORK ........................................................................................................ 2 2.1 Accessibility ..................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Local Economy ................................................................................................ 2 2.3 Geospatial Data Processing ............................................................................ 3 3. DATA ........................................................................................................................... 3 3.1 Infrastructure Development Timeline............................................................... 3 3.2 Land Cover ...................................................................................................... 3 3.3 Land Price ....................................................................................................... 4 3.4 Property Tax Revenue .................................................................................... 5 4. METHOD ..................................................................................................................... 6 4.1 Compound Annual Growth Rate...................................................................... 6 4.2 Aggregation to the Municipality Boundary ....................................................... 7 4.3 Aggregation to the Station Buffer .................................................................... 7 4.4 Difference-in-Difference Estimation Model ...................................................... 7 5. RESULT ...................................................................................................................... 8 5.1 Aggregation to the Municipality Boundary ....................................................... 8 5.2 Station Buffer Analysis .................................................................................. 12 5.3 Difference-in-Difference Estimation Model .................................................... 14 6. CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................... 17 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................... 18 ADBI Working Paper 960 Miyazawa et al. 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background High-speed rail (HSR) development stimulates the local and regional economy mainly due to the large-scale development project itself and the connectivity to other markets (Albalate and Bel 2012); this is especially notable in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with the rapid growth of the national economy (Yin, Bertolini, and Duan 2015). Still, one of the major challenges of high-speed rail projects is the high cost of the infrastructure development. Typically, regional governments cover the construction cost, as they will benefit from residential or corporate income tax and the increase in the tourist inflow. An infrastructure development such as a high-speed rail project creates a spillover effect on incremental tax revenues, improving the performance of private investors (ADBI 2018). The study introduces and applies the concept of spillover effects to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact on increasing the regional tax revenue (Yoshino and Abidhadjaev 2017). It covers the JR-Kyushu’s development of the Kyushu Shinkansen (Kagoshima Route) in Kyushu region, Japan. The construction started in 1991, and the operation commenced in 2004, becoming fully operational in 2011. According to the study, the regional
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