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Characteristics and Effects of the Last Kilometre of the Tourist City from the Dynamic and Static Perspectives

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  • Yajun Xiong

    (College of Tourism, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China)

  • Xinwei Guo

    (College of Geographic Sciences, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China)

  • Junbo Gao

    (College of Tourism, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China)

Abstract

The accessibility of the “last kilometre” of a tourist city has a profound impact on the travelling experience of tourists. In-depth understanding of the characteristics and spatial effects of the “last-kilometre” traffic accessibility in tourist cities is conducive to further enhancing the accessibility of traffic travel and forming a new industry development pattern of deep integration of traffic and tourism. The results show that: (1) Private transport accessibility is significantly better than public transport accessibility, and the strong economic strength of large cities such as Peking, Shanghai, and Nanjing support a wider coverage of public transport compared with cities such as Qinhuangdao, Dalian, Ningbo, etc. Even for the middle-income and high-income groups of the large cities, the advantage of the broader travelling cost of public transport is still significant. (2) The average values of the fluctuation coefficients of travel time of public transport in tourist cities are all smaller than those of private transport, and public transport is less sensitive to traffic congestion, making it a more reliable choice for tourist travel. The higher number of public transport grids with more anomalous fluctuations and much larger fluctuations than private transport grids suggests that there is an urgent need to strengthen the standardisation of public transport services in the corresponding areas. (3) Urban tourism development has been moving from single-line to network development, and the impact of urban transport on urban–regional tourism development has been manifested in the place fission effect, corridor diffusion effect, and regional equilibrium effect. In general, our findings have been useful in understanding the accessibility characteristics of the “last kilometre” in tourist cities, optimizing the efficiency of inter-regional and intra-city transport connections, constructing a fast and convenient travel transport system, improving the accessibility of transport trips, and forming a new development pattern for the deep integration of transport and tourism.

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  • Yajun Xiong & Xinwei Guo & Junbo Gao, 2024. "Characteristics and Effects of the Last Kilometre of the Tourist City from the Dynamic and Static Perspectives," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-20, September.
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