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It has been long believed there should be some relations between traffic system and urbanization, but the interaction between them, especially on the regional level, has been not in consideration due to the difficulty in quantitative analysis. Based on the development of Jilin Province during 1981–2003, the paper analyzed the relation with the grey-relation model which was adjusted to fit specific problem, and came to some conclusions. Firstly, there exists obvious and strong correlation between traffic system and urbanization. Secondly, urbanization responds to the development of traffic system mainly on the level of urbanization, such as population and developed area, however, less on urbanization quality. Thirdly, traffic system influences urbanization as a whole except for several peculiar factors, which means we should optimize the whole traffic system to promote urbanization. Based on those conclusions, the paper illustrated the mechanism of traffic system, promoting urbanization scale and urbanization quality.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40341008)
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Xiang, W., Wang, Y., Li, N. et al. Grey-relation analysis of traffic system and urbanization in Jilin Province of China. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 17, 216–221 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-007-0216-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-007-0216-5