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| THE AGGLOMERATION EFFECT OF TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY TO NATIONAL HISTORIC CITIES |
| HU Hao |
| School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China |
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Abstract The association interaction and scale cluster of national historic cities under the national cultural power strategy is the important driving forces in the regional economic development and cultural inheritance in the new period. This regional cooperation and integrated development model also needs the supports of economic basis, geographical location condition, cultural resources, and transportation infrastructure construction of the national historic cities. With the method of spatial analysis and transport accessibility analysis based on geographic information system, we do some researches in the following area in this paper. Firstly, based on the topological transportation network which was built by expressways, national highways and provincial highways, we analyze the present situation of the transport accessibility of the 117 national historic cities in their 0.5 hours, 1 hour, 1.5 hours, 2 hours, 2.5 hours, 3 hours commuting time cost. Secondly, based on the conception of spatial effect in economic geography and the distribution of transport accessibility in 0.5-3 hours, we analyze the differences of agglomeration and develop potential in the 31 provinces which national historic cities located. At last, there are huge amounts of space difference in the distribution of national historic cities and its present situation of the transport accessibility, the industrial clustering ability and the development potential also appears corresponding regional differentiation. In the Sichuan-Chongqing region, the lower Yellow River, the Yangtze river and the delta and the downstream areas of Zhu Jiang river, national historic cities have more cluster development advantages in a relatively short period of time.
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Received: 15 March 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
