Declining Oil Production as a Catalyst for High-Speed Rail in North America

摘要: This paper assesses the possibility that rising fuel prices following peak oil production will be catalyst ends a longstanding impasse over North American intercity passenger rail development. That is claimed to an unintended consequence of creating public enterprise in order maintain conventional train services. Evidence for peaking around 2012 presented and implications subsequent are considered. The concludes by identifying two scenarios under which transport sector’s transition post-peak could include enhanced role higher speed trains America.