Analysis of regional traffic dominance based on different indicators – taking Shandong Province as an example

Abstract

Taking Shandong Province as an example, select prefecture-level cities and county towns as research nodes, and use traffic network density (road network), proximity, and accessibility indicators to construct a comprehensive evaluation model of regional traffic dominance, using GIS network analysis and IDW. Spatial interpolation technique quantitatively analysed the spatial characteristics of the transportation network in Shandong Province. Through the spatial distribution characteristics of Shandong Province’s traffic dominance, the results show that the traffic dominance is closely related to the level of economic development, forming a spatial structure centred on Jinan and Qingdao. The single indicator to indicate the traffic dominance has certain limitations. And there is high spatial coupling between traffic dominance and economic development. The density of the traffic network is limited by the topography and geomorphology. The accessibility is closely related to the choice of the central city and the location of the county. Qingdao and Jinan, the spatial coupling between traffic network density and economic development level in Shandong Province is not high and some county and city in the central region have higher accessibility level but their economic development ranking is not advanced.

Spatial pattern of traffic dominance in Hunan Province

“…Currently, there have been more studies on the evaluation of traffic dominance, mainly focusing on the following aspects: firstly, the analysis of the spatial pattern of traffic dominance; and secondly, the analysis of the development relationship between traffic dominance and tourism, social economy, etc. Wang Yang, Tian Xiaoqin and other scholars, constructed a comprehensive evaluation model of traffic dominance and analyzed its spatial pattern [2][3][4][5] ; Liu Anle and other scholars, through the driving mechanism, found that the interaction intensity between traffic dominance and tourism development level in counties of central Yunnan city cluster is high [6] ; D Meng and other scholars, analyzed the relationship between traffic dominance and economic growth in Shandong province, and concluded that the spatial coupling is high [7] ; Yang Ren et al scholars analyzed the spatial synergy between the degree of transportation advantage and rural development in Chinese counties using models such as comprehensive evaluation, coupling coordination degree and spatial lag model [8] .…”