Along with the acceleration of civilization in China, Metropolitan area has been paid more and more attention by the government and experts. A lot of researches on metropolitan area's conception and its space scale have been done, but few are focused on the logistics aspect. The problems which concern to the logistics demand and logistics planning in metropolitan area need still to be further studied. The paper realized a study on logistics demand forecasting in metropolitan area's logistics planning.There are many definitions of metropolitan area. This paper takes the definition given by Professor GAO Ruxi.First of all, this paper analyzed metropolitan area's economical and logistics characteristics. Then the paper studied the method for defining the scale of metropolitan area. Basing on this analysis, the logistics planning in... |