Assessing park accessibility plays an essential role in providing rational recreational services for residents in a city. The perceptions and comments of residents are also important nonspatial factors for accessibility. However, there are few accessibility studies that are combined with public perceptions. Addressing this deficit, this study proposes a perception-based, multi-travel mode, two-step floating catchment area (PM2SFCA) method to calculate park accessibility. First, we quantified the selection probability of residents to parks by integrating the Huff model and the people’s perceptions towards parks. Next, under four travel modes (walking, biking, driving and public transport), we combined the Huff model and the two-step floating catchment area method to compute park accessibility. Furthermore, the Gini coefficient and the Pearson correlation coefficient were used to illustrate the proposed method compared with the traditional E2SFCA method. Based on the above, taking the area of Beijing within the Fifth Ring Road as a study area, this paper facilitated the accessibility computation. The results indicated that the spatial distribution patterns of accessibility differed greatly under the four travel modes. Even under the same travel mode, there was an uneven accessibility distribution. Areas with high accessibility were mainly concentrated in the north, and some marginal areas also presented higher accessibility to parks. The comparative analysis results suggest that our proposed method for accessibility measurements alleviates the underestimation and overestimation of accessibility values obtained by a traditional method such as the center and edge of the study area. The research explores a new research perspective for measuring park accessibility. Furthermore, this study offers better guidance for policymakers trying to optimize park spatial distribution issues.
The rapid development of the economy promotes the increasing of interactions between cities and forms complex networks. Many scholars have explored the structural characteristics of urban spatial interaction networks in China and have conducted spatio-temporal analyzes. However, scholars have mainly focused on the perspective of static networks and have not understood the dynamic spatial interaction patterns of Chinese cities. Therefore, this paper proposes a research framework to explore the urban dynamic spatial interaction patterns. Firstly, we establish a dynamic urban spatial interaction network according to monthly migration data. Then, the dynamic community detection algorithm, combined with the Louvain and Jaccard matching method, is used to obtain urban communities and their dynamic events. We construct event vectors for each urban community and use hierarchical clustering to cluster event vectors to obtain different types of spatial interaction patterns. Finally, we divide the urban dynamic interaction into three urban spatial interaction modes: fixed spatial interaction pattern, long-term spatial interaction pattern, and short-term spatial interaction pattern. According to the results, we find that the cities in well-developed areas (eastern China) and under-developed areas (northwestern China) mostly show fixed spatial interaction patterns and long-term spatial interaction patterns, while the cities in moderately developed areas (central and western China) often show short-term spatial interaction patterns. The research results and conclusions of this paper reveal the inter-monthly urban spatial interaction patterns in China, provide theoretical support for the policy making and development planning of urban agglomeration construction, and contribute to the coordinated development of national and regional cities.
With the acceleration of climate change and the increase of extreme rainfall, the risk of flooding has intensified in the Huang-Huai region, which is often hit by floods. Urban water accumulation is a complicated process, and the hydrological simulation analysis is highly accurate, but it is time-consuming and laborious. Machine learning is becoming an important new method because of its ability to analyze large areas with high precision. In this paper, a simulation analysis method based on machine learning is constructed by selecting 13 disaster factors, and the waterlogging point in Xuzhou city is predicted successfully. The following conclusions are found: (1) Among the five machine learning models, CatBoost has the highest accuracy rate, reaching 81.67%. (2) Temperature, elevation, and rainfall are relatively important influencing factors of waterlogging. (3) Machine learning can discover water accumulation areas that are easily overlooked except for the built-up areas. (4) The results of the coupling analysis show that the exposure risk of the population exposed to rainwater in the old urban area, the southern area, and the northwestern area is relatively high. This research is of great significance for reducing the risk of exposure to rain and flooding and promoting the safety and sustainable development of cities.
Accurate characterization of land surface temperature (LST) is essential for urban thermal environment analysis. However, commonly used LST representations have their inherent limitations. For example, single-year LST may be influenced by year-specific anomalies, whereas multiyear means may obscure recent changes. Neither representation addresses how relevance to the target year and persistent historical information can be balanced within a single spatial LST surface. This study therefore proposes a temporally weighted land surface temperature (TWLST) method, which uses temporal decay weights and a half-life parameter to achieve the above balance and produce a continuous LST surface for spatial analysis. The framework was applied at regional and city scales in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region and Beijing city, respectively, to examine its applicability. Spatial overlap between TWLST high-temperature (HT) areas and reference LST HT areas ranged from 0.577 to 0.733 and from 0.666 to 0.863 in the two applications. Historical annual LST anomalies were higher in TWLST-specific HT areas than in target-year-specific HT areas, with median paired differences of 1.16 °C and 2.49 °C, respectively. These results indicated that TWLST preferentially identified persistently warm locations while preserving major high-temperature patterns. The modeling and interpretation analyses further indicated that changes in LST representation could influence model performance and the relative importance of explanatory variables.