Spatial pattern and developing mechanism of railway geo-systems based on track gauge: A case study of Eurasia

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1782-z

	Spatial pattern and developing mechanism of railway geo-systems based on track gauge: A case study of Eurasia
	Wang, Chengjin 1,2,3; Li, Xumao 1,2,3; Chen, Peiran 1,2,3; Xie, Yongshun 1,2,3; Liu, Weidong 1,2,3
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
	2020-08-01
卷号	30 期号:8 页码:1283-1306
关键词	railway railway geosystem development mechanism expansion mode
ISSN号	1009-637X
DOI	10.1007/s11442-020-1782-z
通讯作者	Wang, Chengjin(cjwang@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The railway is an indispensable feature of a nation's infrastructure, and the gauge is an internal and objective technical regulation of the railway. In the large-scale regional space, the track gauges reflect the development differences, historical relations and mutual influences between countries and regions. This makes the railway, originally as a regional connection, have special social, political, military and other multiple attributes. Based on this, the paper, from the perspective of railway gauge, takes the Eurasian continent as the case region to explore the spatial pattern, formation mechanism and organizational mode of communication of the Eurasian continental railway geo-system. The results show that 11 kinds of railway gauge structures exist in Eurasia, which respectively belong to three types of wide-gauge, standard-gauge, and narrow-gauge, but the mainstream gauge only includes 1520 mm, 1435 mm and 1067 mm. Considerable variation in the coverage length and space range of different gauges is apparent, which provides a physical and technological basis for railway system differentiation and network fragmentation, which leads to the formation of eight railway geo-systems. Due to different modes for railway transport management in different geographical locations, the geographical pattern and geographical relationship of four transport organizations are formed. What especially important is the emergence of "1435 gauge space" and "1520 gauge space", as well as the railway geo-space confrontation between them, on the Eurasian continent. Besides, we also find that the railway geo-system of Eurasia is mainly affected by the technology dissemination, path dependence, geopolitics, national defense and the colonial expansion of military latitude, and on this basis, five geo-modes of railway gauge propagation are formed.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS[XDA20010101] ; Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[ZDRW-ZS-2017-4]
WOS关键词	TRANSPORTATION
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000547895400005
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS ; Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/158422]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Chengjin
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resource & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Chengjin,Li, Xumao,Chen, Peiran,et al. Spatial pattern and developing mechanism of railway geo-systems based on track gauge: A case study of Eurasia[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,2020,30(8):1283-1306.
APA	Wang, Chengjin,Li, Xumao,Chen, Peiran,Xie, Yongshun,&Liu, Weidong.(2020).Spatial pattern and developing mechanism of railway geo-systems based on track gauge: A case study of Eurasia.JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,30(8),1283-1306.
MLA	Wang, Chengjin,et al."Spatial pattern and developing mechanism of railway geo-systems based on track gauge: A case study of Eurasia".JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES 30.8(2020):1283-1306.