The varying effects of accessing high-speed rail system on China's county development: A geographically weighted panel regression analysis

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104935

	The varying effects of accessing high-speed rail system on China's county development: A geographically weighted panel regression analysis
	Yu Danlin 1,2; Zhang Yaojun 2; Wu Xiwei 2; Li Ding 2; Li Guangdong 3
刊名	LAND USE POLICY
	2021
卷号	100 页码:11
关键词	High-speed rail County level analysis Geographically weighted panel regression Spatial analysis China
ISSN号	0264-8377
DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104935
通讯作者	Yu Danlin(yud@mail.montclair.edu)
英文摘要	The construction of high-speed rail in China was initiated to answer increasing demand for fast and convenient transportation systems connecting large economic centers. After the first high-speed rail was open for operation and the initial adjustment period, access to high-speed rail starts to bring fundamental changes in regional economic operation modes in China and drastically increase interconnectivity among places that are used to be farther apart. It is commonly understood that access to HSR will have significant impact on economic development. It is, however, also quite possible that the benefits to economic development brought by HSR will have a diminishing marginal effect. That is to say, the benefits brought by HSR to economic development tend to be the greatest when access to HSR is scarce. The benefits will decrease once access to HSR becomes more frequent. With data of HSR stations distribution and a set of panel data of socioeconomic information at county-level from 2008 - 2015 in China, this study creates four HSR accessibility indices and attempts to provide insights on how access to the HSR system supports China's county-level development. The first one simply measures the geographic distributions of HSR stations and feed the data to a global spatial panel model to investigate whether the presence of an HSR station will have significant impact on county development. The second one directly measures the accessibility to HSR based on road network travel time. The third one measures a Euclidean distance from the geometric center of the county to the nearest HSR station. The fourth one is an inclusive and inversed distance measure attempting to capture HSR's geographic infiuence. The last three indices will be used in a geographically weighted panel regression model to test the potential varying relationships between HSR accessibility and county development, controlling other socioeconomic factors. Our results suggest that on average the presence of an HSR station suggests about 2.7 % increase of that county's per capita GDP. The geographically weighted panel regression suggests that in places where HSR is sparsely distributed (access to HSR is scarce and less frequent), the relationship between HSR accessibility and GDP per capita is significant and positive. In places where HSR is densely distributed (access to HSR is more frequent), the relationship is less apparent. The current study explores the distribution of HSR and its contribution to county development in China. We hope the results will offer significant insights of the relationships between infrastructure construction and county economic development in both China and beyond.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[71373275] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41461035]
WOS关键词	GREATER BEIJING AREA ; REGIONAL TOURISM ; LAND-USE ; DEVELOPMENT MECHANISMS ; ACCESSIBILITY IMPACT ; ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY ; EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE ; SPATIAL STRUCTURE ; EVOLUTION ; GROWTH
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000598910900008
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/136588]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Yu Danlin
作者单位	1.Montclair State Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Studies, Montclair, NJ 07043 USA 2.Renmin Univ China, Sch Sociol & Populat Studies, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Urban Geog & Urban Dev Lab, 11A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu Danlin,Zhang Yaojun,Wu Xiwei,et al. The varying effects of accessing high-speed rail system on China's county development: A geographically weighted panel regression analysis[J]. LAND USE POLICY,2021,100:11.
APA	Yu Danlin,Zhang Yaojun,Wu Xiwei,Li Ding,&Li Guangdong.(2021).The varying effects of accessing high-speed rail system on China's county development: A geographically weighted panel regression analysis.LAND USE POLICY,100,11.
MLA	Yu Danlin,et al."The varying effects of accessing high-speed rail system on China's county development: A geographically weighted panel regression analysis".LAND USE POLICY 100(2021):11.