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| A CONCEPT MODEL ON THE INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN PUBLIC TRAFFIC ROUTES & STATIONS AND POPULATION DISTRIBUTION |
| MENG Qing-yan, LI Qiang |
| Population Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract In big cities, population distribution and public traffic routes & stations have an effect on each other. They have inner relationship and develop with each other. The concordant layout of public traffic facilities will help to lead the inhabitants living in the inner city out, bring on population suburbanization and make population distribution more reasonable. Otherwise, the change of population distribution will also have great influence on the public traffic routes and nets. In addition, the relationship between population and public traffic is same as other human-natural relationship. It also contains harmoney. So study on this topic has very important meaning and academic proofs. Through building a concept model of the relationship between population and public traffic, the authors analyse two major relations: one is population with routine public traffic, the other is population with urban rail transit, and then distinguishes their different characteristics and laws. The authors also analyse the cause of the different relationship with population between routine public traffic and rail transit in practice. Two cases are used to prove this paper conclusions: one is the station distribution changes of routine public traffic influenced by migrating population in Shanghai from 1996 to 2006, the other is the number of population settling in new areas in Tokyo after rail transits have been constructed. Theoretically and practically, the distinction and regulation of the interaction between public traffic with population have been discussed deeply in order to provide evidence for urban public traffic construction and development in the future. The following conclusions could be made according to this research: urban routine public traffic has a character of following population; the construction and development of rail transit will help population suburbanize and lead urban dwellers move out of inner city; the changes of urban land use will make the effect of rail transit on population distribution; the effect of rail transit on population distribution exists in some scope, the rail transit in different palaces in urban will have different influence on population distribution, in core city zone, the setting of rail transit will lead people out and result in reducing the population density; in outskirt, the building of rail transit will cause to absorb people to move in and reduce the population density. The effect of rail transit on population distribution is caused by the changes of land uses surrounding rail routes, quite differently from routine public traffic. Around routine public traffic routes, land uses change first, then population move in, at last routine public traffic stations are built for inhabitants convenient moving. Finally, the authors hope this study will have practical meanings, help population transfer more reasonably and public traffic routines & stations build more effectively, and make the relationship between population and public traffic develop more harmoniously.
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Received: 23 May 2007
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2008, Vol. 23 
