Author(s)

Chaokui Li, Qinlan Zhou, Kaisen Ma^*, Jun Fang, Wentao Yang

National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of GEO-Spatial Information Technology, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China.

Aiming at the problem of lack of data model to analyze the level of transportation integration, the paper taking Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group of China as the research object, based on the Gravity measurement model, transportation comprehensive distance model, weighted road density model, analysis of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group accessibility and transportation integration level. A new method to measure the level of traffic integration is proposed and verified by the road network data and socio-economic data of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group. The results show that: Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group traffic accessibility was “point to surface” shape distribution, taking the core region of Changsha as the optimal, Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Changsha County next, in remote Yanling County, Chaling county has the lowest accessibility; the correlation between traffic network connection degree and economic connection degree reached 0.871, indicating that the transportation integration level of urban agglomerations has a high degree of fit with the level of economic integration. The research results on the one hand for the Chang-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration traffic present situation to make an annotation; on the other hand, that provide a reference for further optimization of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration traffic planning.

Gravity Measurement Model, Accessibility, Road Network Density, Traffic Integration, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group

Li, C. , Zhou, Q. , Ma, K. , Fang, J. and Yang, W. (2019) Research on Traffic Accessibility and Transportation Integration Level of Chang-Zhu-Tan City Group in China. Journal of Geographic Information System, 11, 715-726. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2019.116043.