The pandemic COVID-19 which has spread over the world in early 2020 has caused
significant impacts not only on health and life, but also on production activities and freight …

The metro transportation network in large cities is one of the most important factors affecting
urban spatial structure. To further understand the role of a metro network in the optimization …

Network analysis is a useful tool to analyse the interactions and structure of graphs that
represent the relationships among entities, such as sectors within an urban system …

Being in the sphere of influence of other cities can have benefits as it allows cities to “borrow
size,” but this can also lead to competition effects known as “agglomeration shadows.” This …

Freight transportation contributes to increasing carbon emissions in the transportation
sector. The CO 2 emissions inherently caused by the intercity freight transportation between …

This article presents a systematic review of empirical studies on polycentric spatial structures
at a regional scale in order to assess their effectiveness as prescriptive and normative …

As a new product of the Internet and big data era, migration data are of great significance for
the revealing of the complex dynamic network patterns of urban agglomerations and for …

This paper deals with an extension of the hub line location problem considering demand
elasticity with respect to travel times. The proposed model aims to capture the impact the …

Under the influence of the conversion of farmland to forest and rapid urbanization, the
traditional rural settlements in the hilly and gully region of the loess plateau are experiencing …

The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is one of three world-class city clusters in China, which is
important for the strategical deployment of the national “Belt and Road”. Based on nighttime …