Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World

Countries considering high-speed rail (HSR) developments face enormous challenges because of their high deployment cost, environmental obstacles, political opposition, and potentially adverse effects on society. Nevertheless, HSR services are importantly sustainable that can have positive transformative the economic growth a nation. This paper systematically reviews classifies impact areas deployments around world as well analytical methods used to evaluate those impacts. We utilized scholarly scientific database find articles in systems. By defining some rules, we select 116 between 1997 March 2020. The approach revealed interesting patterns trends space, time, sentiment analyzed impacts society, economy, environment. findings inform decision-making about deployments, gaps identified literature propose new research opportunities for future studies.