Open AccessTRANSPORT AND SPATIAL ATTRACTIVENESS OF TERRITORIES: FACTORS OF INFLUENCE
Author(s) -
Kostiantyn Viatkin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mìstobuduvannâ ta teritorìalʹne planuvannâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-9206
pISSN - 2076-815X
DOI - 10.32347/2076-815x.2021.77.87-97
Subject(s) - attractiveness , gravity model of trade , urban agglomeration , geography , economic geography , population , urbanization , regional science , transport engineering , dimension (graph theory) , business , economic growth , economics , engineering , demography , sociology , mathematics , psychology , international trade , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics
The article is devoted to the analysis of traffic flows and population flows from the periphery to the basic centers of gravity. The development of agglomerations is a global trend. However, depending on the scale of urbanization, transport accessibility, quality of road surface, safety and comfort of road traffic, each country has its own system of spatial remoteness and population flows to the basic centers of gravity. The article considers the national dimension of the formation of spatial attractiveness of territories. For Ukraine, the basic centers of gravity will not always be administrative centers, because the unbalanced development of territories leads to the reformatting of centers of gravity exclusively to the centers of economic and social life of the population. For analysis, the article selects the Kharkiv region, where the basic center of gravity is the city of Kharkiv - the administrative and socio-economic center of regional development. By analyzing the transport network of highways and railways, the points of entry and exit from the city, which form the centers of gravity of the population with the subsequent transportation of passengers to the centers of business activity, were determined. The estimation of passenger flows to these points in rush hour is carried out. In accordance with the analysis of statistical data, conclusions were made on the factors of formation of spatial attractiveness, as well as the influence of the remoteness of the territories from the base center of gravity on the formation of traffic flows. the dependence was formed into blocks (radii) of spatial attractiveness and described quantitatively. The results of the analysis will be used in further research to form a model of agglomeration development for Kharkiv region and other regions of Ukraine.