The Transport Department of the Hong Kong SAR government conducted a trial traffic guidance scheme at the plaza of a busy road tunnel. The scheme involves the placing of reflective road markings on the approach lanes to the toll plaza and the erection of a gantry sign that clearly distinguishes...

This paper presents an innovative and first attempt to apply the continuous equilibrium approach in modelling the geography of air passenger flows. The Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta region is used as a case study; and choices of air travellers for both international and domestic flights are...

We consider a city region with several facilities that are competing for customers of different classes. Within the city region, the road network is dense, and can be represented as a continuum. Customers are continuously distributed over space, and they choose a facility by considering both the...

This paper proposes that the world's textile and clothing industries have become increasing vertically disintegrated with a few flexible production regions (the “cream” portion) engaging in creative, innovative, dynamic and high value-added activities, and an expanding number and spatial...

This paper adopts the conceptual model of Sell et al. [J. Architect. Planning Res. 5(2) (1998) 145] in examining the potential impacts of Route 3 on the local community of Yuen Long new town. A questionnaire survey was conducted between 2 and 24 June 1998. 2220 Yuen Long residents were selected...

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) has the ability to deal with two sets of multivariate variables simultaneously and to produce both structural and spatial meanings. In view of the valuable insights to be gained, in this paper I examine the potential applications of CCA in regional science by...

Railway containerization is important to the development of an efficient inland-port distribution (IPD) system in China. After reviewing the general transportation network evolution and local circumstances, a strategy of focusing the limited capital investment at a few railway stations with the...

This paper reviews and analyzes changing telecommunications policies in China since the inception of the so-called “Open Policy.” It is argued that these changes should be understood as the results of a delicate balance between (1) government considerations (including the state's desire to...

This paper proposes a qualitative assessment methodology that is comprised of a cluster analysis and an autoregression analysis that assess the effects of various road safety strategies implemented in Hong Kong over the last 10 years. The cluster analysis is first used to group over a hundred...

Against the background of a complex and evolving statistical system, this article addresses three crucial issues in the understanding of the rapid export expansion of China in general and the Pearl River Delta in particular. First, the export orientation of the Pearl River Delta is critically...