Abstract: Measuring the coordination and analyzing the spatial-temporal pattern between regional road traffic and the level of economic development can provide a better theoretical and practical guidance for a balanced development in the development stage of “New Normal” and the strategy of “Yangtze River Economic Belt”. Based on the study of 16 cities in Anhui Province, this paper chooses three time nodes which are 2005, 2010 and 2015 to construct a comprehensive evaluation index system, then uses the entropy method, variation coefficient and coordination index to analyze the spatial-temporal pattern and coordination level between road traffic and economic development. The results show that: (1) The variation coefficient of economic development level is large, but that of road traffic is small, while the regional difference of both is obvious in Anhui Province. (2) The development level of road traffic in Anhui Province has been increasing year by year, and the distribution pattern has been changed from “Z” type to “V” type and then to “Z” type. The level of economic development has been integrally improved, and represents a typical Core-Periphery distribution in which the region of Hefei-Wuhu-Ma Anshan is the core. (3) The coordination degree between road traffic and economic development level is changed from coordinated to imbalance overall, meanwhile different urban development types are formed in different period, in which coordination and traffic lag are the main types.
Key words：road traffic; economic development; spatial-temporal pattern; coordination; Anhui province