The Integrative Effect On Large Railway Passenger Station To Transport Resources

With the economic development and the urbanization process speeding up, the transport network has been developed in the stage where the node (hub) determine the network efficiency in a large degree, and the focus of its development was also changed from the lines and corridors between cities and regions to the problems of connective which in the nodes, and the focus of planning and design, the more and more technology and funds were also transferred to the construction on the nodes and hubs. In such trend and background, in order to improve the efficiency of the transport network there was an inherent requirement for the nodes (hubs), at this point, the nodes (hubs) must be change their own forms to adapt themselves to such a request.With the development of transport network, the problem of integrative efficiency which the nodes (hubs) to the transport resources more and more became the issues whom were common concerned. Including the large railway passenger station, the transportation hubs inherently have the effects that integrate the transport resources because of its function, and the integrative efficiency to the transport resources is the key factor to determine the level of the transport networks efficiency. So we must fully understand that the large railway passenger stations and the transportation hubs and so on are the core resources in the system of the transport resources, moreover, with the development of the transport network focus on its nodes, it will become increasingly prominent.On the basis of confirm that the large railway passenger station is the core resources, the paper used the transport location theory, complete transport products theory, economies of transport network theory and transport resources theory, analyzed the related issues to the integration efficiency, and the main results of the paper as below:Firstly, the paper presents the concept of the "transport location performance", and constructs a model to explain the relationship between the integrative efficiency and the large railway passenger station's transport location performance. The paper considers that the inherent function of the large railway passenger station is the basic condition to improve the network efficiency, and the major factors which determine the large railway passenger station's transport location performance, including the location of the large railway passenger station, the transportation method structure which connected with the large railway passenger station, the scale, the reasonable degree of the structural design and the soft resources integrated degree such as information, operating organizations, management system, are the decisive factors which the large railway passenger can be fully exerted the integrative effect.Secondly, this paper constructs a model about the relationship between the integrative effect and the network efficiency. The paper considers that improve the large railway passenger station's transport location performance can improve the integrative effect, and to be represented as improving the coupling degree of resources allocation, transportation product quality and the economies of network to improve the network efficiency. The paper considers that improve the integrative efficiency, on the view of resources inputting, which is improving the coupling degree of resources during the process of forming the transport location of the large railway passenger station; on the perspective of transport demanding, which is providing passengers with a more high-quality and efficient transfer service, such as safe, convenient, comfortable, fast, seamless connectivity, zero-distance transfer, zero-waiting time and so on; on the perspective of transport supply, which is improving the economies of network and outstanding representing to improve the economies of capacity of a spot in a network, economies of traffic density, economies of fleet size and economies of size.Thirdly, based on the theoretical analysis of above, the paper takes the Berlin Central Station in Germany and the Taipei Railway station as the cases to the empirical study, and verifies the conclusions of this paper. The conclusion of the study shows that, the German federal government, Berlin municipal authorities and German railroad put a huge sum of money to built the central station and the Taipei city government used a lots of money to put its central station and the downtown's railroads underground, are precisely in order to adapt the request which is the development of transport network for railway stations, that is improving its transport location performance, then improving the integrative effect, and improving the network efficiency at last.Finally, the paper points out the questions that we have been faced during the process of planning and construction of our country's railway passenger station, and analysis the related issues which using the theory and the model that the paper presented, and also puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions in order to improve the integrative efficiency.