Spatial relationship of high-speed transportation construction and land-use efficiency and its mechanism: Case study of Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration

doi:10.1007/s11442-019-1614-1

Abstract

Abstract:

Land-use efficiency is low for the urban agglomeration of China. High-speed transportation construction has been an important factor driving land use change. It is critically important to explore the spatial relationship between the high-speed transportation superiority degree and land-use efficiency. We built a model to evaluate the benefits of convenient high-speed transportation using the relative density of highways and the distance from high-speed rail stations and airports as a metric. We used 42 counties of the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration as an example. Land-use efficiency was calculated by a DEA model with capital, labor, economic benefits and environmental benefits as input and output factors. We examined the spatial relationships between high-speed transport superiority degree and land-use efficiency and obtained the following results. First, there are significant spatial differences in the relationships between the high-speed transportation superiority degree and land-use efficiency. Taking the two major cities of Jinan and Qingdao as the hubs, the core surrounding counties show significant spatial relationship between land-use efficiency and the high-speed transportation superiority degree. Spatial correlation declines as the distance from the hubs increases. Land-use efficiency is less than high-speed transportation convenience in areas along the transportation trunks that are distant from the hub cities. Correlation is low in areas that are away from both hub cities and transportation trunk routes. Second, high-speed transportation has a positive relationship with land-use efficiency due to the mechanism of element agglomeration exogenous growth. Third, high-speed transportation facilitates the flow of goods, services and technologies between core cities and peripheral cities as space spillover (the hub effect). This alters the spatial pattern of regional land-use efficiency. Finally, the short-board effect caused by decreased high-speed transport construction can be balanced by highway construction and the proper node layouts of high-speed rail stations and airports, resulting in a well-balanced spatial pattern of land-use efficiency.

Key words: high-speed transportation superiority degree, DEA, land-use efficiency, spatial relationship, Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration

Xuegang CUI, Chuanglin FANG, Zhenbo WANG, Chao BAO. Spatial relationship of high-speed transportation construction and land-use efficiency and its mechanism: Case study of Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration[J].Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2019, 29(4): 549-562.

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Evaluation system	Evaluation subsystem	Score
High-speed transport superiority degree	Highway superiority degree	? The ratio of regional highway density to that of urban agglomeration
	High-speed railway superiority degree	? Has high-speed rail station (score 2)
		? Within 30 km from the high-speed rail station (score 1.5)
		? 30-60 km away from high-speed rail station (score 1)
	Air transport superiority degree	? Has important airport (score 2)
		? Has ordinary airport (score 1.5)
		? Within 50 km of the important airport (score 1) or ordinary airport (score 0.5)

Scale income	Areas
Increasing	Zhangqiu, Pingyin, Jiyang, Shanghe, Pingdu, Laixi, Gaoqing, Yiyuan, Kenli, Lijin, Laizhou, Penglai, Zhaoyuan, Qixia, Haiyang, Weifang, Qingzhou, Zhucheng, Anqiu, Gaomi, Linqu, Changle, Wulian, Juxian
Balanced	Jinan, Qingdao, Zibo, Huantai, Guangrao, Longkou, Laiyang, Shouguang, Changyi, Weihai, Rongcheng, Rushan, Zouping
Decreasing	Jiaozhou, Jimo, Dongying, Yantai, Rizhao

High speed transportation combination types	Species	Number of sample areas	Average land-use efficiency
Highway + High Speed Rail + Air Transportation	3	5	0.949
Highway + High Speed Rail	2	10	0.929
Highway + Air Transportation	2	1	0.799
Highway	1	23	0.921
High Speed Rail	1	1	1.000
None	0	2	0.907