Analysis of Location Selection of Public Service Facilities Based on Urban Land Accessibility

Wei Wang, Zihao Zhou, Jun Chen, Wen Cheng and Jian Chen
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Wei Wang: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Zihao Zhou: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Jun Chen: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Wen Cheng: Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment Science and Technology, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Jian Chen: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: Urbanization has been a flourishing process in a wide range of developing countries. The planning and construction of public service facilities is a crucial component of this process. Existing planning methods of public service facilities focused on macroscopic indicators like population and GDP. In this way, accessibility and transportation conditions were neglected. Four typical counties in China were selected as samples where travel surveys and questionnaire surveys on public service facilities were conducted. Taking education and medical care as representative public service facilities, this study used geographic information processing to connect the locations of public service facilities at all levels with the urban land accessibility. Then, analysis of variance was used to obtain correlations between the level of public service facilities and the urban land accessibility. The results showed that the urban land accessibility of locations of public service facilities follows a normal distribution. Categories of facilities showed significant difference on urban land accessibility. Therefore, intervals of urban land accessibility of locations of public service facilities within one standard deviation from the mean were constructed by category. These intervals built a connection between transportation conditions with locations of public service facilities. Corresponding relation of carbon emission of facility-related trips and urban land accessibility was established as an example of an application. Carbon emissions caused by facility-related trips can be reduced by locating facilities at locations with appropriate urban land accessibility.

Keywords: location of public service facilities; urban land accessibility; correlation analysis; carbon emission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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