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Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway

ZHAO Shengbo, QI Junheng, LI Dongxue, WANG Xingping

Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2024, 34(6): 1128-1156. DOI: 10.1007/s11442-024-2242-y

Variable type	Variable category	Variable	Data source
Dependent variable	Built-up land expansion	The proportion of built-up land in the space unit	Land use data
Explanatory variable	Railway factor	Distance from the train station	Railway station geolocation by Open Street Map
		Distance from railway line	Railway line shapefile by Open Street Map
		Whether nearby station provides passenger service	Operation strategy of ADR from the ADR Operation and Maintenance Project Company
		Whether nearby station provides freight service
	Natural environmental factor	Slope	DEM
	Natural environmental factor	Vegetation coverage	Landsat-OLI
	Social economic factor	Population size	LandScan
	Social economic factor	Distance from the central city	Central city geolocation

Table 6 The influencing factors of built-up land expansion in the area around stations

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Figure 1 Location of the study area (Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway)
Figure 2 The distribution and index of the Landsat remote sensing images
Table 1 The date and filename of Landsat remote sensing images
Figure 3 Distribution of land use classification in the study area in different time periods
Figure 4 An enlarged map of the five buffer zones at 2 km intervals and the spatial distribution of land use along the railway line with Addis Ababa at the center in different time periods
Table 2 Proportion of land use types in different time periods
Table 3 Range of land use change in different time periods
Figure 5 Land use dynamic degree (LDD) of single land use type in different periods
Table 4 Land use dynamic degree (LDD) of comprehensive land use type in different periods
Figure 6 Information entropy (IE) and equilibrium degree (ED) of land use in different years
Table 5 Land use transfer matrix in different periods
Figure 7 Relationship between land use dynamic degrees of land use change and buffer distance in each period
Figure 8 Information entropy and equilibrium degree of land use in each buffer zone in different periods
Figure 9 Land use structure of the buffer zones with a radius of 10 km around the stations along the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway in 2021
Figure 10 Proportion of built-up land in 2021 and land use dynamic degree (LDD) of built-up land from 2013 to 2021 of the buffer zones with a radius of 10 km around the stations along the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway Note: “Others” includes Feto, Awash, Sirba Kunkur, Mieso, Bike, Harewa, Adigala, Aysha, and Dewale.
Figure 11 Change in land area and number of landscape patches in the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway
Figure 12 Landscape fragmentation index of different land use types in the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway
Table 7 Fitting degree comparison between OLS Model and GWR Model in 2013 and 2021
Table 8 Estimation results of influencing factors of built-up land expansion based on OLS
Figure 13 Spatial distribution of the distance from the train station in the GWR Model
Figure 14 Spatial distribution of the population size in the GWR Model
Figure 15 Spatial distribution of the distance from the central city in the GWR Model
Figure 16 Operation strategy of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway

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