Research on Interaction Between Traffic Improvement Around the Old Railway Station and Urban Land Utilization—A Case Study in Hohhot Railway Traffic Regulation

Abstract

In early times, urban business centers developed around the old railway stations where gathered a large number of people and formed a pattern of land use with a variety of complex functions. With the acceleration of Chinese urbanization, new railway stations are emerging in many places. As a result, railway stations have became the new centers under the guidance of urban planning. Areas around the old railway stations are suffering problems such as traffic jams, shortage of land, and so on. At present, we use “solving the traffic problem by itself” as a main measure to improve the surrounding areas of old railway stations but ignored the relationships between traffic improvement and urban land utilization. This paper takes Hohhot railway station as an example and analyzes the problems that the old railway stations are suffering from in development. On the basis of related experience in domestic and international transport, this paper proposes combining the complex urban spatial pattern with traffic improvement and land utilization as a solution for refreshing the urban vitality in the old railway station areas. This paper also illustrates the relationship between traffic improvement and land utilization in order to improve the urban transportation infrastructure and the urban quality and offers ideas for other cities to consider.