| In the context of consistent acceleration of economic globalization and new urbanization, regional integration has become a major growth point and strategic point of China’s development. The pace of urban integration of Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area had been taken since the1980s, and nowadays, the significance of the integration of Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area has no longer been restricted to the three cities’ own development. It’s also a pivotal strategic highland related to the reinforcement of Fujian Province, to the leading position of the Western Taiwan Strait Economic Zone, to the connection of Taiwan and even to the enhancement of the national economic space pattern. It has been a wide consensus for a long term that intercity transport plays an important role in regional integration tactics as an essential impetus and support. The establishment of comprehensive transport system provides strong supports for the efficient integration of resources in metropolitan areas and the process of regional integration. And it’s also involved in certain relevant planning for Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area which takes it seriously as a prerequisite.This paper is going to review and summarize all host planning, master planning and special planning concerning Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan areas, and intends to utilize status quo scenario and scenario in the end of planning of intercity transport of Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area as analysis objects. It will use arcGIS network analyst and spatial analysis module, scenario simulation analysis, comparative study of the status and plans for the term, SPSS correlation analysis modules and other methods and means to describe and analyze the average transport time-distance, internal accessibility, external accessibility, comprehensive accessibility and other time-space compression effects of the metropolitan area. On the basis of this, this paper will predict the level of economic development for the end of Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area, the changes of cities scales level structure and central systems brought by the evolutions of space connection pattern, the evolutions of spatial pattern like new growth pole and hot space of development. It will conduct proactive and multi-dimensional comprehensive analysis on the evolution trend of economic and social space pattern of the Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area in the perspective of intercity transport evolution and planning, and hopes to make some comments and suggestions on the planning of intercity transport of Xia-Zhang-Quan metropolitan area and the overall development of the society and economy of all the metropolitan areas. |
PDF Full Text Request