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Rail and property development in Hong Kong: Experiences, impact and extensions
3pm, April 21st, 2017
Hong Kong is internationally known for its successful integration of rail transit investments and urban development which recaptures the land-value increases created by rail investments to finance infrastructure investments. This paper presents a typology of Hong Kong R+P project using a cluster analysis that groups the projects according to built environment and locational attributes. It examines the impacts of the different types of R+P projects as well as transit-oriented designs on ridership and housing prices.