Transport and regional economic integration: Evidence from the Chang-Zhu-Tan region in China

Dan He, Qingmei Yin, Manxin Zheng and Peng Gao

Transport Policy, 2019, vol. 79, issue C, 193-203

Abstract: Better transport and regional economic integration are correlated. However, the relationship between them is still ambiguous. This study selects the Chang-Zhu-Tan region, one of the most important manufacturing areas in the Yangtze River economic belt, as a study area. It analyzes regional economic integration using economic linkage and urban flow intensity models and examines transport investment and mobility levels. Finally, autoregressive distributed lag and autoregressive distributed lag-error correction model approaches are applied to estimate the long-run and short-run relationships among the three variables, respectively. The results indicate transport investment and mobility have significant positive effects both in the short and long run and that investment contributes more to economic integration than mobility. In addition, regional economic integration and mobility can promote transport investment and transport investment can promote mobility. Further, there are short-run dynamic adjustments among them. This study, therefore, determines that it is crucial to understand effective transport investment and mobility in promoting regional economic integration.

Keywords: Transport investment; Transport mobility; Regional economic integration; Autoregressive distributed lag; Bounds testing; Chang-zhu-tan region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (15)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X18306681
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:trapol:v:79:y:2019:i:c:p:193-203

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
https://shop.elsevie ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.04.015

Access Statistics for this article

Transport Policy is currently edited by Y. Hayashi

More articles in Transport Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().