The construction of a high-speed railway is important to the transportation network and economic development of a region. To further understand the interaction between accessibility and urban economic linkage in the context of high-speed railway networks, this study investigated the spatial and temporal changes in the coupling coordination between accessibility and economic linkage after a high-speed railway was opened in Hunan Province, China, using a coupling coordination model. The aim of this research is to explore the role that high-speed rail construction plays in regional development. Results indicate that (1) after the high-speed railway was opened, the accessibility of cities in Hunan Province has improved significantly, although the overall pattern has not changed by much. This is because it still shows a radiation pattern, with the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan urban agglomeration at its core, which has subsequently spread to surrounding areas; (2) the improvement in urban accessibility has strengthened the economic linkages between cities, and the overall spatial pattern has gradually evolved from a point-axis pattern to a network pattern. The bipolar trend of total regional economic linkage has become more pronounced than what it was before; (3) the overall coordination degree of accessibility and economic linkage coupling in Hunan Province is primary coupling, and the phenomenon of regional polarization is prominent, thus showing the overall spatial pattern of ‘strong in the east and weak in the west.’ Further strengthening the construction of the high-speed railway in the northern part of Hunan, promoting the economic construction in the western and southern parts of Hunan, and building a spatial pattern of synergistic integration for Hunan’s continued transportation and economic development are suggested.
In the context of accelerated urbanization, constructing resilient cities is an effective approach to tackling risks, such as extreme weather, and various urban challenges. The coupling and coordinated development of urbanization and urban resilience is a prominent embodiment of urban sustainable development and high-quality development capacity. In this study, Hunan Province, China, which is frequently affected by various disasters, is selected as a representative for examining the coupling and coordination relationship between urban resilience and urbanization level. The panel data are adopted to construct a dual-system evaluation framework integrating urban resilience and urbanization level based on the entropy weight-coefficient of variation (CV)-CRITIC method. The coupling coordination degree of this dual-system evaluation framework is calculated with the coupling model in physics and GM (1, 1) grey prediction model. Additionally, the spatial–temporal evolution characteristics of the coupling coordination degree are investigated and analyzed by ArcGIS and Geoda software. The following are indicated from the results: (1) The resilience of all cities is related to their geographical location and is characterized by a decrease from east to west; in addition, the resilience level of most cities presents a downward trend with time. (2) The urbanization level of most cities develops stably with time, but there is a growing gap in the urbanization level between regions. (3) There is a strong correlation between urban resilience and urbanization level in all cities; the unbalanced coupling and coordinated development emerge, specifically manifested by the polarization phenomenon. Eventually, a circle-difference spatial distribution pattern that starts from the central urban agglomeration and gradually decreases to the periphery is formed. (4) The prediction results of the coupling coordination degree suggest that there is an increasingly distinct polarization trend for the coupling and coordinated development between cities, and it is necessary to pay attention to those cities with a declined predicted value. (5) There is a significant positive spatial autocorrelation and agglomeration effects in the distribution of the coupling coordination degree of all cities, and the correlation is getting stronger with each passing year; the correlation mode is mainly characterized by homogeneity and supplemented by heterogeneity. Finally, several suggestions are proposed in this paper, in an attempt to lead the coordinated development of regions by novel urbanization and thus promote the sustainable development of cities. The methods and insights adopted in this study contribute to investigating the relationship between urban resilience and urbanization in China and other regions worldwide.
How to expand an owner’s market demand for BIM and fundamentally mobilize an owner’s application enthusiasm is of great significance to the high-quality development and effective promotion of BIM. Taking the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as the basic framework and integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we build a theoretical model of an owner’s adoption behavior mechanism for BIM technology. The theoretical model is tested by the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM). The research results show that the perceived usefulness of BIM technology by an owner is the most significant factor that affects the owner’s behavioral intention to apply BIM technology. The influence of attitude on behavioral intention is very weak and not significant. Subjective norms can significantly and positively affect an owner’s adoption intention. The perceived ease of use has a positive impact on the adoption intention of BIM technology, but its role is very limited. The adoption intention of an owner can positively affect adoption behavior and has a direct driving effect. The research results can improve the relevant research on BIM, encourage an owner to actively participate in the development process of BIM, and further promote the comprehensive promotion and application of BIM.
The long-term rental apartment market in China is steadily growing to be a trillion-dollar sector, but excessive market growth can lead to several issues. Due to the high demand for long-term rentals, many investors will enter the market. Nevertheless, without direction and supervision, it is simple to overdevelop the supply of long-term rentals, which would have negative effects on the real estate market. Long-term rental apartments involve a variety of companies, and it is vital that we drive their beneficial growth. To provide other operators with a comparison to find flaws, enhance improvements, and prevent irrationally increasing the stock, this paper uses the Pythagorean fuzzy decision-making method to identify the most well-liked long-term rental apartment operators and the most significant rental needs of tenants in the market environment. The results of the study show that real estate developers’ flats are the most popular among the four major operators, and that C4: Providing emotional value, C7: Ability to resist risk and C8: Ability to prevent social incidents are aspects that tenants value more than others. The results of the study provide real estate operators with directions for optimization, provide other operators with criteria for improvement, prevent blind increases in rental stock and provide operators with a healthy competitive environment, which is of great significance to the healthy development of long-term rental apartments in China.
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