20世纪90年代中国城际铁路流省界效应研究——以旅客和集装箱为例

Provincial Border Effect of China's Intercity Rail Flows——A Case Study of Passenger and Container Flows

行政单元对经济活动的边界效应是经济地理学科一直关注的问题,它直接反应了行政主体对经济空间格局的影响。以中国227个城市节点的铁路交通流数据为基础,分析了中国25个省级行政单元的边界对交通联系的影响,发现上世纪90年代中国铁路客货流空间的集中化与分散化力量并存。进一步考察了空间相互作用变化背后可能的驱动因子。在中心城市吸引力扩张的影响下,铁路客流空间发生明显的重组,边界效应普遍削弱;而技术进步和地方政府的竞争使得集装箱货流空间的变化则比较复杂,甚至有约一半省份的边界效应增强了。最后分析了省界效应变化趋势并提出了对区域与城市规划和政策制定的一些建议。

Administrative border effect is always an interesting topic for economic geography for its importance in economic space shaping. This paper deals with the border effect of 25 provinces of China by using rail traffic flows data between 227 cities from 1991 to 2000. The analysis on transport links reveals that the process of ag- glomeration and diffusion co-existed in 1990s, and the driven factors of such process are discussed under the context of globalization and China＇ s urbanization. As the hub cities expanded their effect beyond administrative borders, the space of passenger flows appeared a significant reconstruction and the border effect was weaken obviously during this process. However, the technical progress and competition between different local governments made the space of container flows more complicate, 11 provinces showed an opposite trend of stronger border effect. At last, this paper discussed the future trend of border effect and gave some policy implication according to our analysis.