The influence of Subways on Service Industry Agglomeration: Taking Guangzhou as an Example

• Published in: Redai dili Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 114 - 123
• Main Authors: Zhu Hongping, Zhu Wentao, Zheng Rongbao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Editorial Committee of Tropical Geography 05-01-2021
• Subjects: guangzhou city; heterogeneity; service industry agglomeration; spatial autoregressive model; subway
• ISSN: 1001-5221
• DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003307

Agglomeration is an important feature of the spatial distribution of an urban internal service industry. Most of the previous studies on the influencing factors of urban internal service industry agglomeration have ignored traffic factors, especially the influence of subways. The improvement of traffic convenience can often affect the location of a service industry by gathering a flow of people. With the rapid growth in the number of China's metro cities, it is necessary to evaluate the impact of subways on the service industry activities within the city. In addition, most of the previous literature has not considered the spatial dependence of service activities, and there is little discussion on the heterogeneity of the service industry. In view of this, based on POI(Point of Information) data in Guangzhou as an example, this study uses a spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to identify the impact of subways on service industry agglomeration and analyzes the heterogeneity of different types of service industry