RESEARCH ON EVOLUTION TRENDS OF REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY DRIVEN BY WESTERN TAIWAN STRAITS ECONOMIC ZONE STRATEGY
YAN Xin1, WANG Hui2,3, OUYANG Xiao-fu2, YIN Qiu-yi2, HUANG Han-ming4
1. Jiangsu Institute of Urban Planning and Design, Nanjing 210036, China;
2. School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
3. Cross-strait Institute of Urban Planning, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
4. China United Engineering Corporation, Hangzhou 310052, China
Abstract This essay focuses on the comprehensive transport accessibility of Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone and utilizes different measurements to build the accessibility of the average transport time distance and the indicators of accessibility of cities and counties inside the district as well as the external and comprehensive ones. The indicators of average transport time distance and comprehensive transport accessibility are built to analyze the regional spatial characteristics of Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone in different time sections of 2001, 2006 and 2011 with spatial analysis tools, like Arc GIS. The evolution characteristics and trends of regional comprehensive transport system are concluded by the analysis and assessment above.We found that, it is provided that the solid policy support for the development of Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone was officially included in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" of Fujian and China from 2006. Since the Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone strategy started, the development of infrastructure was more rapid and efficient than before, and the indices of accessibility increased faster and the spatial convergence effect was more pronounced; the gaps of accessibility were shrinking along with the gradually increasing equilibrium and the narrowing difference of hierarchy, and hierarchical structure has undergone profound changes.
2015, Vol. 30 
