The Coupling Relationship between Information Technology Level and Public Transportation: A Case Study of Cities in Guangdong

Abstract:

During the rapid development of information technology, the global widespread information wave has come. Exploring the intelligent information technology on the mechanism of the urban space helps to drive targeted policy-making about city planning. In this paper, taking cities in Guangdong as samples , we firstly discuss about the relationship between the level of information technology and personal travel. Primarily, analysis the fitting relationship between information flow and public traffic flow of the 21 cities at a certain time. Secondly, investigate how information technology influences the residents’ travel at the micro level by means of questionnaire surveys. The study shows that internet information has a significant promoting effect on the residents’ travel of general cities, but a substitution effect in a few large cities which has highly developed service sector.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 989-994)
• Pages: 5157-5164
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.989-994.5157
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Miao Xi Zhao*, Qin Gu, Yang Duan, Jing Yu Liang
• Keywords: Coupling Relationship, Information Technology (IT), Passenger Flow, Transportation

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