The Impact of Land Transportation Integration on Service Agglomeration in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Gongding Wei (), Xueyan Li, Mingyuan Yu, Guangquan Lu and Zhiyu Chen
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Gongding Wei: Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China
Xueyan Li: Management College, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China
Mingyuan Yu: Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China
Guangquan Lu: School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Zhiyu Chen: Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, Beijing 100088, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-23

Abstract: This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, considering the current status of its transportation development to construct an urban agglomeration land transportation integration index system and to evaluate the development of the area’s transportation integration. The study examined the influence mechanism of transportation infrastructure on service industry agglomeration. The results were as follows: (1) From 2011 to 2020, the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration land transportation integration index showed a clear upward trend. (2) The development of the integration level of local transportation has a certain inhibitory effect on the agglomeration of local service industries. The transportation integration of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration played an important role in promoting the agglomeration of local wholesale and retail industries and transportation, storage, and postal services. The labor force and market size also have a significant impact on service agglomeration. (3) The integration of land transport in the urban agglomeration affects the agglomeration of service industries through the knowledge spillover effect caused by the improvement of accessibility, and the impact is heterogeneous. The Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration needs to accelerate the construction of trans-provincial and trans-municipal transportation infrastructure and to further improve its connectivity level to promote the integrated development of high-quality transportation in this area.

Keywords: transportation integration; service industry agglomeration; Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration; urban agglomeration transportation integration index system; knowledge spillover effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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