Transportation Investment in Rapidly Urbanizing China: Best Practices for Supporting Balanced Regional Economic Returns

To support balanced and sustained economic returns from transportation investment, the convergence of development strategies on a regional scale is crucial. Recognizing the regional economies are shaped by unique geostrategic conditions, effective transportation development must be planned in the context of regional urbanization dynamics. This paper examines the development patterns of the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong province, serving as a case study for exploring broad strategies that best promote balanced regional growth through transportation investment and development. Based on a methodical assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the region, the rural periphery was identified as an underutilized asset crucial to supporting balanced regional growth. Recommended best practices emphasize the role of policy-making and transport infrastructure as allocative mechanisms in a regional economy.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  Transportation and Development Institute
  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400

  China Academy of Transportation Sciences

  Ministry of Communications
  Beijing,   China  100029
• Authors:
  • Cheang, Miles
  • Liu, Xiaobo
  • Huang, Minghua
• Conference:
  • The First International Symposium on Transportation and Development – Innovative Best Practices (TDIBP 2008)
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2008-4-24 to 2008-4-26
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 27-32
• Monograph Title: Transportation and Development Innovative Best Practices 2008: Proceedings of the First International Symposium

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Case studies; Regional development; Regional economics; Return on investment; Transportation planning; Urban development; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation investment
• Geographic Terms: China; Guangdong (China)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01105463
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784409619
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 2008 3:24PM