审视与评估现实中高速铁路的城市联系职能,是研究高铁发展与城市发展之间相互作用关系的基础。基于对京广高速铁路沿线14个城市进行的实地调研和近3000份调查问卷,分析了高铁旅客在城市间的流动方向及特征,发现高铁主要承担着中心城市与普通城市之间、中心城市与中心城市之间的客流联系。通过对不同城市间客流强度影响因素的计量分析,发现高铁旅客在省内城市间的流动强度普遍高于省外流动强度,去往中心城市的客流强度也大于去往普通城市的,且两个城市间的高铁旅客数量与两个城市的经济水平正相关。高铁加强了中心城市与普通城市之间的客流联系,但会带来中心城市进一步的极化发展还是使中心城市更好地带动普通城市的发展,是值得进一步探讨的问题。

High-speed railway of China connects more than 100 cities of different levels, which takes a largescale inter-city passenger exchange, and its impact on urban development is gradually revealed. City connection role of HSR in reality, which is the research basis of interaction relationship between HSR development and urban development, should be examined and evaluated. Based on the field research about the 14 cities along the Beijing-Guangzhou HSR and nearly 3000 questionnairesacquired from all the high speed rail station, the paper analyzes the passenger flow direction and its characteristics between the cities. The result shows that, as an emerging means of transportation, the HSR is mainly bearing the passenger contact between the central cities and the ordinary cities currently, followed by the passenger contact between the central cities. Both the analysis on the passenger flow characteristics inside and outside the province and the north-south section further confirms the above conclusion. Econometric analysis of the factors affecting the passenger flow intensity shows that, the flow of between cities in the province is larger than the flow across the province, and the passenger flow intensity toward central cities is larger than that toward ordinary cities as well. The HSR passenger numbers between two cities are positively relate to the economic level of the two cities. The empirical study result shows that HSR strengthens the passenger contact between the central city and the ordinary city, however, whether this kind of connection will further polarize the central cities or central cities promote development of ordinary cities needs further study.