The Coordinated Development of “Transport-Industry” in Lanzhou-Xining Urban Agglomeration from the Perspective of flow space

Abstract

Abstract Under the perspective of “flow space”, the text of this paper constructs an interactive spatial connection network within 30 county towns units of the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration. Further, with the help of social network and ArcGIS (which is the spatial analysis method), the quantitative analysis is used to analyze the structural characteristics of multi-dimensional spatial network of the Lan-Xi urban agglomeration and their mutual relations. Moreover, the synergetic degree model is used to measure the synergetic development level of the “traffic-industry” compound system in urban agglomeration at present. The results indicate that the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration forms a double-core structure that Lanzhou and Xining as the center, and the space of county towns presents the correlated characteristic of “dumbbell-like” expansion. Furthermore, the central power of county towns which are restricted by the traffic condition and industrial structure indicates some outstanding differences. Further, it shows that the center develops to the periphery in a low-level but balanced way. In addition, the random disequilibrium of order degree of traffic and industry in urban agglomeration restricts the synergetic development of county towns, and the compound system of urban agglomeration is in the low-medium stage of synergetic development. The results of this study can provide some references for improving the traffic infrastructure construction and industrial functional structure of Lan-Xi urban agglomeration. This study also can shed some lights on the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt.