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This final chapter discusses and interprets results from the present study. Thus, the structure of the chapter is clearly organized to follow the study objectives. These were in particular to analyze the HSR accessibility issues at a regional level, to measure accessibility benefits spilling outside the HSR network , to review strategies that could carry HSR accessibility benefits into the region and to assess on a case study the distributive ability of selected strategies to drive HSR NEs into a regional context.

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Brunello, L.R. (2018). Discussion and Conclusions. In: High Speed Rail and Access Transit Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61415-1_6

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