Data for: Impact of High-speed Rail on Population Mobility and Urbanisation: A case study on Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China

This is the data used in the paper 'Impact of High-speed Rail on Population Mobility and Urbanisation: A case study on Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China'. The file includes data of population, urbanization, economic development, and high-speed rail constration of the 26 cities of Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in China from 2005 to 2016. The data of high-speed rail are from the China Railway Yearbook from 2006 to 2017, and the data for high-speed rail service frequency are from the National Railway Timetable released by the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China over 2005–2016. Other data are collected from the China City Statistical Yearbook, and provincial and urban statistical yearbooks. The third table in the file shows the calculation methods of the processed data.