Geography and Trade

Connectivity of intercity passenger transportation in China: A multi-modal and network approach

How government subsidies promote the growth of entrepreneurial companies in clean energy industry: An empirical study in China

Performance comparison between optimized design of a centralized and semi-decentralized community size solar district heating system

Estimation of the failure probability of an integrated energy system based on the first order reliability method

Locked post-fossil consumption of urban decentralized solar photovoltaic energy: A case study of an on-grid photovoltaic power supply community in Nanjing, China

The development of high-speed rail (HSR) is transforming the landscape of China by enabling new forms of urban and regional expansion. Some of these spatial and economic effects mirror past experience with HSR infrastructure in Japan and Western Europe. But the scale of China’s HSR infrastructure and its role in providing that country’s intercity mobility are sufficiently greater than previous HSR development that new spatial effects can be expected. This paper takes the first step in explaining this transformation by creating an analytical framework to differentiate three modes of spatial development that can be associated with distinct configurations of HSR operation in China. An initial assessment of these transportation development genres is offered, and an agenda for future research into the catalytic role of HSR in China’s development of supercities with more than 130 million people is presented.

Bigger and Different: Beginning to Understand the Role of High-Speed Rail in Developing China’s Future Supercities:

The basic task of Major Function Oriented Zone (MFOZ) is to optimize the structure of national land use. The research is concentrated on the process of applying 3S technologies. Based on the analysis of the need, identity, and content, we investigate the theory foundation and appliance of various 3S technologies, including database, model-base, spatial analysis, spatial multi-criteria decision, cellular automaton, during the coordination of MFOZ planning and land use management from different aspects. These aspects include data acquirement, integration management, spatial evaluation, partition and coordination of different areas, assistant decision and intelligent appliance. Especially, the research focuses on the systematic analysis of the appliance of 3S technologies to realize the guiding macro-function of MFOZ and exert the adjusting function of land use in order to provide a technical reference for land use and management based on MFOZ planning.

Major function oriented zone planning and land use management with 3S technologies

The article tries to apply the hierarchical location theory to traditional Location-allocation model to form a dynamic hierarchical location model. This model considers the rating of bank outlet and the influence of population redistribution caused by land use alteration after the urban extension. The case research of the downtown in Kunming indicates that it has certain advantage in simulating the future bank location.

Jingwei Sun

Papers

Locked post-fossil consumption of urban decentralized solar photovoltaic energy: A case study of an on-grid photovoltaic power supply community in Nanjing, China

Bigger and Different: Beginning to Understand the Role of High-Speed Rail in Developing China’s Future Supercities:

Major function oriented zone planning and land use management with 3S technologies

The minimum cost of hierarchical location-allocation models for banks in Kunming, China