Will the Development of a High-Speed Railway Have Impacts on Land Use Patterns in China?

Zhang, Han; Xia, Li; Li, Xiaoping; Chen, Yimin; Ou, Jinpei; Niu, Ning; Jin, Yuhao; Shi, Haiping

doi:10.1080/24694452.2018.1500438

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“…China’s HSR is a passenger dedicated line with speeds typically exceeding 250 km/h; in the southwest and southeast mountainous areas, the maximum speed is limited to 200 km/h for safety reasons. Therefore, HSR in this study refers to passenger dedicated lines with speeds greater than 200 km/h [ 47 ]. Mainland China was selected as the study area (not including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), as shown in Figure 1 a.…”

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Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

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High-speed rail (HSR) represents China’s advancing productivity; however, quite a few HSR stations face problems due to inappropriate planning and limited passenger flow. To optimize future planning on HSR lines and stations and facilitate efficient operation, we used brightness as a representative of station development and nearby human activity, analyzing its spatial and temporal distribution, classification categories, and influencing factors of 980 stations using nighttime light images from 2012 to 2019. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) There are 41 stations with high brightness between 80 and 320 nW·cm−2·sr−1, which are concentrated in provincial capitals, large cities, and at line ends. The overall number of these stations increases by 57% in the past eight years. (2) Stations with high brightness but minimal changes that opened in 2013–2019 are mainly concentrated in provincial capitals and large- or medium-sized cities, and those with high brightness and significant changes are mostly new stations nearby. More than 70% of stations that started HSR operation before or in 2012 have high brightness. (3) Brightness positively correlates with the number of daily trains, and it changes faster at stations with more daily trains. It changes most within 0–1 year after HSR operation opening and exhibits a relatively slow but long-term increase over the next 2–6 years.

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Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

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“…The impact of HSR on urban space stems from changes in accessibility [5,6]. In recent years, most studies have focused on the impact of HSR on accessibility [7], spatial equity [8,9], travel patterns, urban sectoral employment [10], commuting behavior [11], spatial development [12], land use [13], and economic development [14]. Despite the importance of these previous studies, the impacts of HSR on station area spatial structure remain largely unexplored.…”

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How Does the Spatial Structure of High-Speed Rail Station Areas Evolve? A Case Study of Zhengzhou East Railway Station, China

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The rapid development of high-speed rail (HSR) and station areas has shortened the spatial and temporal distances among cities, improved the accessibility of cities, and affected the spatial agglomeration and diffusion of populations and of social and economic activities. This has led to spatial reconfiguration of production factors within cities, which has the potential to drive the reconstruction of urban spatial structures. Based on POI and land-use data, this paper defines the spatial scope of the HSR station area and explores the characteristics and influencing factors of its spatial structure from the perspective of industry. The study area i is set at 2000 m. Since the opening of the HSR, the industrial distribution has exhibited a significant circular, multi-core, and axial belt spatial structure. The spatial structure of each sub-industry is different. On the whole, internal and external transport and agglomeration economies have significant impacts on the industrial spatial distribution, and land rent has gradually decreased in importance with the development of HSR station areas. The intensity of the effects of different factors varies among different industries. The mechanisms by which the spatial structure of the station area is formed are discussed and include location accessibility, micro-market factors, node station attributes, the availability of a sufficient amount of undeveloped land, the characteristics and needs of HSR passengers, and policies and systems.

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“…These developments have provided unprecedented opportunities for industrial development and the expansion of cities where the HSR lines pass. The construction and operation of HSR has had a profound impact on the economy, tourism, land use, urban landscape, inter-city flow patterns, and urban hierarchy [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. For instance, in Germany, HSR has reduced the commuting time between cities, causing employees to return from large cities to small cities to find jobs [10].…”

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“…For research methods, research on HSR, urban expansion, and land use usually uses a DID (difference-in-difference) or multi-stage DID model [41][42][43]. Multiple linear regression (MLR) [38], the spatial mixed logit (SML) model [28] and the spatial differencein-difference (SDID) model [3] also have certain applications. Compared with the MLR model, DID, multi-stage DID, and SDID models can identify differences in socio-economic performance before and after policy implementation, that is, they analyze the impact of policy implementation on socio-economic factors [44][45][46].…”

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“…However, DID and SDID cannot solve the problem of the random opening of HSR in a certain period the same way as multi-stage DID [5], that is, the policy implementation is not in the same year, so this study selects the multi-stage DID model. However, this model also has its limitations, that is, it does not consider the spatial autocorrelation of dependent variables the same way as the SDID model [3].…”

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The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China

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High-speed railway (HSR) promote the efficient flow of the population and materials between cities and have profoundly affected urban economic development in China. However, there is currently limited research about how HSR influences urban expansion, especially related to the variable impacts on different urban agglomerations, different size cities, and the conversion of non-urban land to urban land. In this study, from two levels of regional heterogeneity and type heterogeneity, a multi-stage difference-in-differences (multi-stage DID) model and land use remote sensing data are used to investigate these research areas. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) The first opening of HSR had a more significant role in promoting urban expansion than HSR frequency, but several years after opening, HSR no longer promotes urban expansion. (2) The opening of HSR only played a significant role in promoting urban expansion in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei. HSR frequency had a significant role in promoting urban expansion in the Yangtze River Delta. (3) The opening of HSR had no significant impact on urban expansion for different size cities, and HSR frequency only had a significant negative impact on urban expansion of small cities. (4) The first opening of HSR led to urban expansion dominated by the occupation of cultivated land. Cities in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia mainly converted barren land and vegetation cover to urban land after the first opening of HSR. In northeast China, the first opening of HSR made the conversion of vegetation cover and cultivated land to urban land roughly equivalent in size. The results of this study are helpful to understand the impact of the first opening of HSR and the scale of conversion of different types of non-urban land into urban land on urban expansion. In the era of HSR, these findings provide a valuable reference for regional planning and preventing the disorderly expansion of cities.

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Will the Development of a High-Speed Railway Have Impacts on Land Use Patterns in China?

Cited by 30 publications

References 83 publications

Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

Evaluation of China’s High-Speed Rail Station Development and Nearby Human Activity Based on Nighttime Light Images

How Does the Spatial Structure of High-Speed Rail Station Areas Evolve? A Case Study of Zhengzhou East Railway Station, China

The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China

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