Research on the Correlation between Typical National Urbanization Development and Transportation and its Enlightenment to China

Abstract

To promote the new urbanization development, this paper utilizes the coordination theory and transport economic theory to select some typical countries, including United States, Japan, Britain, and South Korea, to analyze the correlation between their urbanization development stage and the evolution of their main transportation modes; on the other hand, it studies the mutual support between the urbanization development and the spatial variation of transport network. The above results are then used to make a comparison with the actual situation of China urbanization development. Therefore, this paper presents some new ideas for the transportation development in China’s urbanization process from two aspects, the development stage and the development focus, aiming to guide a healthy urbanization and achieve the sustainable development.