An accessibility-based approach is presented in this paper to explore the impact of intercity rail transit system planning on regional development. The impact of three typical accessibility variables—transportation, population and economic accessibilities—are considered in the approach. The global rail transit scope planning models are developed by using the regression technique to correlate the sizes of 254 regional intercity rail transit systems in different countries in the world. These scope models are used for estimating intercity rail transit size for the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in China. Spatial distributions of the three accessibilities are compared at each node in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. The developed method has been proven helpful to understanding the gap between transport supply and potential travel demand and the suitability of each node to alignment of each rail transit route through the PRD region case study.


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    Title :

    Accessibility Distribution Impact of Intercity Rail Transit Development on Pearl River Delta Region in China


    Contributors:
    Cao, Xiaoshu (author) / Li, Linna (author)

    Conference:

    The Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2012 ; Beijing, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2012 ; 1719-1730


    Publication date :

    2012-07-23




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English