TY - JOUR
T1 - Transport infrastructure development and changing spatial accessibility in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China, 1990-2020
AU - Hou, Quan
AU - LI, Si Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
The research is supported by the General Research Fund (GRF) of the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (project HKBU 243209), the Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant (project FRG2/09-10/100), and the 2010–2011 Dissertation Fellowship provided by Peking University-Lincoln Institute Centre for Urban Development and Land Policy (PKU-Lincoln Center). We are in debt to the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - This paper analyses the accessibility implications of the development of expressways and inter-city railways in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) over the period 1990-2020. Average travel time was firstly reduced by expressway development; and it will be reduced further by the introduction of the inter-city rail system in 2011. The unevenness in regional accessibility remained relatively high during the initial stage of expressway development, but later expansion brought more balanced accessibility landscapes. The first stage (2010-2020) of inter-city railway development will raise the accessibility inequality. Its later effects, however, remain to be seen. Convenience in transport connections is associated with the spatial pattern of industrialization. In addition, accessibility improvement is tied to the direction of city-region development, as exemplified by Guangzhou's choice of Nansha, the city's outer port, as development focus.
AB - This paper analyses the accessibility implications of the development of expressways and inter-city railways in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) over the period 1990-2020. Average travel time was firstly reduced by expressway development; and it will be reduced further by the introduction of the inter-city rail system in 2011. The unevenness in regional accessibility remained relatively high during the initial stage of expressway development, but later expansion brought more balanced accessibility landscapes. The first stage (2010-2020) of inter-city railway development will raise the accessibility inequality. Its later effects, however, remain to be seen. Convenience in transport connections is associated with the spatial pattern of industrialization. In addition, accessibility improvement is tied to the direction of city-region development, as exemplified by Guangzhou's choice of Nansha, the city's outer port, as development focus.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Expressways
KW - Greater Pearl River Delta
KW - Inter-city rail system
KW - Intra-regional disparity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051792968&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.07.003
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:80051792968
SN - 0966-6923
VL - 19
SP - 1350
EP - 1360
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
IS - 6
ER -
