EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON EVALUATION MODEL OF TRANSPORT SUPERIORITY DEGREE——A Case study of Shandong Province
WANG Cheng-xin1, WANG Ge-fang2, LIU Rui-chao1, YAO Shi-mou3
1. School of Population Resource&Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;
2. Party school of the Shandong Committee of C. P. C. , Jinan 250021, China;
3. Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Abstract The transportation is just like the artery for regional development. The importance of traffic location is becoming more and more obvious in the period of rapid industrialization and urbanization in China. Based on the review of domestic and overseas research progress, this paper gives the concept of transportation superiority, and tries to set up an evaluation model of transport superiority degree, including transport network density, influence degree of transport trunk line and superiority degree of location of the main types of tranport pattern, such as highway, railway, water way and air transportation. Different weights are given to each index in order to reflect the transport superiority degree well and exactly. Taking Shandong province as an example, the score of 139 Cities and Counties Governed by Shandong province can be calculated and analyzed. On the whole, transport superiority degree in each county is higher, and has great difference in every county in Shandong province, which can be divided into five types of transportation advantage degree by Cluster Analysis with SPSS. The regions with the highest transport superiority degree centralize in Jinan and Qingdao city where transpotantion is complete and perfect, and most of other counties are distributed like a circle whose core is a key city like Jinan. And the regions with the lowest transport superiority degree centralize in undeveloped counties, which lie in the north and south-west of Shandong province with low level of tranportation. In conclusion, transport superiority degree is of great importance to the future of regional development. We also see that there is a close relationship between transport superiority degree and regional economy development.
2010, Vol. 25 
