Urban network structure evolution and organizational pattern in Northeast China from the perspective of railway passenger transport
Received date: 2017-01-21
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Online published: 2017-07-31
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Space of flows has become one of the important contents of human geography research in the era of big data. In this study, the evolution of urban network structure in Northeast China is analyzed from various aspects, including overall scale, network density, urban centrality and cohesive subgroup, by using Social Network Analysis (SNA) based on railway passenger transport data of 2005, 2010 and 2015 in this region, followed by the spatial organizational pattern. Research findings suggest that: (1) Railway passenger transport linkage has experienced three phases, i.e., ordinary passenger train dominating period, early high-speed railway period and high-speed railway prosperous period. Urban hierarchy system shows significant primitive city distribution from the perspective of trains from departure stations, with relatively stable "one axis dual-core" position. (2) Regional urban network density has been somewhat increased, but it is still weakly connected. "Matthew effect" can be observed in the process of network evolution. Inter-provincial relationship between Liaoning and Jilin provinces is close, with Heilongjiang province and Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region (east) obviously marginalized. (3) Urban centrality is found to have been polarized; high-value areas show a significant regional aggregation; core-city effect is changed from polarization to diffusion; the core network position of Dalian is established progressively. A transition phenomenon can be observed in areas with high betweenness centrality, of which Harbin shows a stable mediating effect, with spatial occlusion of some core cities shrinking continuously. (4) There is an evident phenomenon of small groups in the urban network in Northeast China; the "four-region" pattern is found to be gradually consolidated during regional integration process; the subgroups of Harbin-Dalian axis network have been the core groups in network linkage. (5) A spatial organizational pattern of "circled advancement - axial and radial extension - grouped partition" is put forward for Northeast China by analyzing the individual characteristics and overall network structures of cities.
MENG Deyou , FENG Xinghua , WEN Yuzhao . Urban network structure evolution and organizational pattern in Northeast China from the perspective of railway passenger transport[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2017 , 36(7) : 1339 -1352 . DOI: 10.11821/dlyj201707012
Tab. 1 Numbers of trains from departure stations in the city表1 城市铁路站点始发列车班次 |
| 城市 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 | 城市 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 | 城市 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 | 城市 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鞍山 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 通辽 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 佳木斯 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 伊春 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 白城 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 鹤岗 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 锡林浩特 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 延吉 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 白山 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 黑河 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 乌兰浩特 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 沈阳 | 54 | 67 | 112 |
| 本溪 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 营口 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 七台河 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 四平 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 朝阳 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 长春 | 27 | 27 | 71 | 牡丹江 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 松原 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 赤峰 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 鸡西 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 双鸭山 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 绥化 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 大连 | 34 | 42 | 89 | 吉林 | 18 | 20 | 52 | 哈尔滨 | 57 | 83 | 129 | 铁岭 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 大庆 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 锦州 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 加格达奇 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 通化 | 14 | 11 | 11 |
| 丹东 | 12 | 11 | 47 | 辽阳 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 海拉尔 | 4 | 8 | 10 | ||||
| 抚顺 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 辽源 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 葫芦岛 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 阜新 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 盘锦 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 齐齐哈尔 | 33 | 41 | 44 |
Tab.2 Urban network density of various regions in Northeast China表2 东北地区各区域城市网络密度 |
| 区域 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 黑龙江 | 吉林 | 辽宁 | 蒙东 | 黑龙江 | 吉林 | 辽宁 | 蒙东 | 黑龙江 | 吉林 | 辽宁 | 蒙东 | |||
| 黑龙江 | 2.218 | 1.179 | 1.005 | 0.431 | 2.821 | 1.487 | 1.615 | 0.508 | 3.853 | 1.846 | 2.302 | 0.646 | ||
| 吉林 | 1.179 | 3.069 | 2.865 | 0.533 | 1.615 | 4.611 | 4.119 | 0.978 | 1.761 | 6.097 | 6.937 | 0.978 | ||
| 辽宁 | 1.044 | 2.873 | 5.632 | 0.471 | 1.654 | 4.016 | 7.560 | 0.643 | 2.099 | 5.889 | 13.126 | 1.000 | ||
| 蒙东 | 0.400 | 0.533 | 0.471 | 0.900 | 0.492 | 1.022 | 0.729 | 1.300 | 0.585 | 1.044 | 1.086 | 1.600 | ||
Tab.3 Density of cohesive subgroups of urban network in Northeast China表3 东北地区城市联系网络凝聚子群密度 |
| 子 | 2005年 | 2010年 | 2015年 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 群 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 8.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 20.3 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 9.4 | 0.9 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 7.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| 4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| 5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 7.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | ||
| 6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 9.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 12.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
| 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.2 | ||
| 8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 3.8 | ||
Fig.1 Topological map of urban spatial linkages in Northeast China图1 东北地区城市空间联系演变拓扑图 |
Fig.2 Spatial evolution of urban centrality in Northeast China图2 东北地区城市程度中心度空间演变 |
Fig.3 Spatial evolution of urban betweenness centrality in Northeast China图3 东北地区城市中介中心度空间演变 |
Fig.4 Evolution of cohesive subgroups of urban network in Northeast China图4 东北地区城市联系网络凝聚子群演变 |
Fig.5 Spatial organizational pattern of Northeast China from the perspective of railway passenger flow图5 铁路客运流视角下东北地区空间组织模式探讨 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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