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The construction of transport infrastructure has changed the accessibility of different regions. Discrepancies in accessibility will bring regional inequity. With the gradual improvement of China’s rural transport construction, spatial equity has become a more prominent issue. Based on the road network and settlements in rural areas of China, this chapter analyses the accessibility of rural settlements and the county-level differences in rural accessibility. This chapter evaluates three aspects of the spatial equity of rural accessibility: intracounty equilibrium, intercounty equilibrium and the coupling relationship between accessibility and investment. According to the spatial patterns of accessibility of rural settlements in China, it is urgent to strengthen the problem detection for the basic road network to promote transport equity in rural areas.
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Zhao, P., Hu, H. (2022). Accessibility and Its Spatial Equity of Rural Settlements. In: Rural Transition and Transport in China. Population, Regional Development and Transport. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6498-5_6
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