Urban Transport Planning of Shangqiu City with the “Construction of Strategic Support in Eastern Zh.docVIP

Urban Transport Planning of Shangqiu City with the “Construction of Strategic Support in Eastern Zh 　　Abstract. Located in eastern Henan with crucial regional advantages, Shangqiu has stepped into a stage of strategic opportunities for rapid development in recent years, showing substantial potential for the construction of strategic support in eastern Zhongyuan Economic Zone. However, the urban transport status is quite unsatisfactory: with supply-demand imbalance in urban transport, the level of traffic service increasingly declines; due to poor road conditions and in adaption to the development of motorization, the quality of urban environment increasingly degrades; problems increasingly emerges, such as the inadequate sufficient utilization of transport resources, the insufficient construction of public facilities, the unreasonable transport mode and structure, etc. It is imperative to conduct a rational planning from aspects including road network system, transport mode, static traffic system and so on, to accelerate the construction of strategic support in eastern Zhongyuan Economic Zone and to promote the sustainable development of urban economy in Shangqiu. 　　Key words: Zhongyuan Economic Zone; strategy in the east; urban transport planning 　　1. Introduction 　　In the course of the rise of central China and construction of Zhongyuan Economic Zone, the strategic support in the east becomes constantly prominent. As Shangqiu is located in eastern Henan, as a juncture of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, a link point between developed industrial area in eastern China and resource-rich area in western China as well as an intersection of Eurasia Land Bridge Economic Zone and Beijing-Kowloon Economic Zone, it is the bridgehead for the implementation of “head east and lead west” strategy in Henan, which occupies the significant geographical advantages and material-distribution advantages, known as the “portal of eastern Henan”. Being an important t