Policy & Practice Comment: megaregions and notions

摘要

Catherine Ross provides us with a useful summary of the emergence of megaregions globally, and associated with them, the application of high-speed rail as a means for making connections in the context of a new economy. In fact, in her lead paper in this Policy & Practice forum, she portrays high-speed rail as 'the most visible form of new technology accompanying the transformation to an information-based economy', and outlines both the scope of the challenge facing America in this chase for global competitiveness, as well as the degree to which other countries and regions are already far ahead. She concludes that greater coordination will be required at the scale of the megaregion in order for the United States to get in the game.