Abstract under the background of rapid urbanization and industrialization, excessive separation of workplace and residence will bring many problems such as traffic congestion, social space isolation. Excess commuting is an important indicator for measuring the spatial organization of job-housing and commuting efficiency of urban residents. Using the rapid industrialization in Zhongshan city as an example, this paper adopts 2012's traffic survey data in Zhongshan and analysis the spatial organization efficiency and excess commuting for urban residents' job and housing. It's found that excess commuting rate (E) is 42%, and commuter capacity utilization (Cu)is 3.36% in Zhongshan in 2012. Compared with big cities in the domestic existing research, the average worker commuting distance is relatively short and also far less than western cities in Zhongshan. Excess commuting rate is only higher than that of Xi'an and lower than big cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou. commuter capacity utilization (Cu) is much lower than that of domestic and western cities. So, commuting efficiency in Zhongshan is higher than domestic big cities from existing domestic relative research. Excess commuting rate has significant correlation with the respondents' household registration, the types of professional and household income which is characterized that household income is higher, excess commuting rate is higher. Workers in organs and institutions and enterprise administrative staff have relatively lower commuting efficiency, and agricultural workers and industry workers have relatively higher commuting efficiency. And also, migrants have higher commuting efficiency. Compared with other big and middle scale cities from existing research, relatively lower housing price, smaller difference between central city and towns in housing price and public service are main reasons for relative lower excess commuting rate in Zhongshan.
2016, Vol. 31 
