Economic Growth and Corridor Development in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape is one of the regions in South Africa,which fulfils pre-conditions for corridor development.This study investigated the different cases to construct the corridor development in this region.These cases may contribute for the Eastern Cape economic growth.We use transport corridors as corridor development approach to provide a backbone or spatial focus for regional cooperation on sustainable projects,clustering them along corridors or at nodal centres on the corridors.Then,we consider spatial units such as cities.Cities can be conceived as nodes in a network.Their development is influenced by the quality of links with comprehensive means: roads,railways,canals,airports and seaports.Thus,we analyze the effect of changes in transport links (e.g.highway) on the relative position of cities.As a result,we find that transportation corridor in the Eastern Cape that would be most suitable for the implementation of fixed-guide way,high capacity (rail or bus rapid transit) service and for transit oriented development to support higher capacity transit services.And we also find that corridor development constructed in this region can contribute significantly on economic growth for South Africa as a whole.
economic growth Corridor Development transport corridor
Nocawe Lucia Ndayi Igor-Mathieu Gondje-Dacka
Hunan University,College of Economics and Trade Changsha,China Hunan University
国内会议
西安
英文
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2016-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）