Abstract
Since impacts of rail transit on urban industries and space most obviously appear in metro station areas, correlations between the spatial distribution of producer services and urban built environment in metro station areas are studied in Xi’an, China. At first, the scope determining methods of a metro station area were separately proposed for both single‐line station and multiline transfer station based on their construction and transportation modes. Then, when the producer services were divided into 6 categories of business, POI numbers of enterprises of each category in metro station areas were collected and weighted to calculate the distribution intensity for categories. Finally, on condition that the urban built environment of a metro station area included job and residence space, outdoor activity space, and municipal road space, correlation performances between the distribution intensity of categories and indexes representing 3 space elements of the built environment were calculated through second‐order partial correlation analysis, while the corresponding mechanisms of correlations were explained too. The main conclusions of this paper indicate that there are significant positive correlations between the distribution intensity and the diversity index of job and residence space for most categories, whereas significant negative correlations between it and the openness index of outdoor activity space for most categories. Moreover, positive but weak correlations were appeared between the distribution intensity and the street network density index of municipal road space only for categories of intermediary consulting and leasing.
Highlights
Modern rail transit system is a convenient and efficient urban traffic tool and an impetus to urban economic development
The differentiation of the rent level makes the space demand of office buildings in areas never be satisfied for different industries. erefore, spatial competitions within metro station areas have unavoidably happened among high-return industries through market actions, and the winner will get the right of building space usage
Basic data about 3 space elements of the built environment was obtained through the land use planning and transportation system planning of Xi’an downtown issued by Xi’an Natural Resources and Planning Bureau. en, the satellite images of metro station areas taken from the AutoNavi map were compared with the basic data from planning
Summary
Modern rail transit system is a convenient and efficient urban traffic tool and an impetus to urban economic development. Metro station is the only operating node of the rail transit system connecting to other urban physical surroundings, so impacts of rail transit on urban industries and space firstly and most obviously appear in metro station areas [3], and industrial distribution in metro station areas is regarded as one of the most important research topics at a small scale in economic geography and urban planning. Erefore, improving the quality of the urban built environment is generally considered an effective approach to reach a successful TOD in the metro station area [6], while it makes the space usage more intensive and efficient by industrial sectors clustering hereby and promotes urban economic growth on the whole. The spatial distribution of most urban industries is closely correlated to their urban built environment [7], huge differences of correlation performances still appear for various industrial sectors in metro station areas. The spatial distribution of most urban industries is closely correlated to their urban built environment [7], huge differences of correlation performances still appear for various industrial sectors in metro station areas. e nice built
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