RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE YANGTZE BASIN >> 2025, Vol. 34 >> Issue (12): 2727-.doi: 10.11870/cjlyzyyhj202512009

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Assessing the Coupling of Highway Traffic Accessibility Among Revolutionary Villages, Scenic Areas, and County Towns in Anhui’s Dabie Mountains

WANG Zheng1,2, WANG Fan1,2, GE Hui-yan1,2, GAO Yan-yan1, HE Cheng3   

  1. (1. School of Architecture and Planning, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China;2. Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Smart Villages and Collaborative Governance, Hefei 230601, China;3. Design and Research General Institute Company Limited of Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China)
  • Online:2025-12-20 Published:2025-12-25

Abstract: Highway traffic accessibility plays a vital role in linking revolutionary villages with scenic areas and county towns, thereby enhancing tourism appeal, supporting service capacity. The Dabie Mountains in Anhui Province were selected, and ArcGIS tools and a coupling coordination model were employed to quantitatively examine the spatial distribution of revolutionary villages and scenic areas, measured the road accessibility of revolutionary villages-scenic areas and revolutionary villages-county towns, and analyzed the spatial coupling characteristics of these two linkages. The results showed that: (1) Revolutionary villages and scenic areas exhibited a spatial pattern of overall dispersion with localized clustering, yet their concentrated areas were spatially separated. (2) The travel time between villages and scenic areas ranges from 67.83 to 192.05 minutes, indicating low overall accessibility with significant internal disparities and a pronounced core-periphery structure. (3) Accessibility between villages and county towns was generally better, with travel times within 104.10 minutes and mostly under 60 minutes, displaying a pattern of accessibility decreasing from county centers to peripheral areas. (4) The coupling coordination degree of road accessibility exhibited a spatial gradient, declining from the north and central-eastern to the west and south, with a relatively high degree of spatial coupling between village-scenic and village-town linkages. Based on accessibility coordination, the provincial list of key revolutionary villages, and proximity to scenic routes, this study identifies high-potential villages for red-green integration. Strategies were further proposed to improve red-green integration in the Dabie Mountains by enhancing multidimensional accessibility, offering a scientific reference for promoting high-quality, integrated development in former revolutionary base areas.

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