Comparing China's urban systems in high-speed railway and airline networks
| Autor: | Yang, H., Dobruzkes, Frederic, Wang, Jiaoe, Dijst, M.J., Witte, P.A., Section Economic Urban Transitions, Section Geography and Education |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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China
Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Transportation 02 engineering and technology Analyse - gestion des transports Geographical distance Urban planning 0502 economics and business Economic geography Géographie économique General Environmental Science 050210 logistics & transportation Economies of agglomeration High-speed railways (HSR) 05 social sciences Late stage Airlines 021107 urban & regional planning Geography Economie des transports Urban systems Passenger flows Urban system Géographie urbaine |
| Zdroj: | Journal of transport geography, 68 Journal of Transport Geography, 68, 233. Elsevier BV |
| ISSN: | 0966-6923 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.03.015 |
| Popis: | Although the Chinese high-speed railway (HSR) entered the transportation market at a late stage in 2003, its networks have become the world's largest and are currently even growing faster than airline networks. Using the 2013 origin/destination (O/D) passenger flow data instead of commonly used scheduled data, we compare the spatial configurations of the Chinese national urban system in both high-speed railway and airline networks. The results show that HSR-dominant cities and links are located mainly in the middle and eastern parts of China, offering regional connections, whereas air-dominant cities and links are evenly distributed across the whole of China and predominantly offer interregional connections. This is mainly because HSR networks are more focused on connections to cities with high socio-economic performance and are more restricted by the geographical distance between linked cities than the airline networks. Furthermore, HSR networks promote agglomeration economies within cities located along the trunk lines in specific regions, whereas airline networks contribute to more balanced urban development in China. These dimensions indicate that the configuration of urban systems in HSR networks differ largely from that of air networks when measured in terms of passenger flows. info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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