Coupling of Urban Economic Development and Transportation System: An Urban Agglomeration Case
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The relationship between transport and economic development is a very well-known topic, including the relationship between GDP and mobility. To discuss about that I think it is not trendy. In this sense, other topics such as Node-place model -not mentioned in the manuscript- are more appropiate to recommend new urban developments or more public transport services.
Therefore, at least, authors should include in the literature review, the Node-Place model and show others general graphs putting in relationship the passengers and goods mobility, and GDP, for instance in China or other great regions in the world. At the same time, authors should underline the news, the advance of the model proposed with respect to the current knowledge in this relationship between transport and economic development.
Author Response
Dear reviewer:
Thanks for the reviewer’ comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Coupling Evaluation and Spatial Analysis of Regional Development and Transportation System of Harbin-Changchun Urban Agglomeration” (No. sustainability-1616478). Those comments and suggestions are helpful for revising and improving our paper. We have carefully made corrections and revised the manuscript which we wish to be approved.
The following mentioned page number and line number correspond to the version of “Track Changes”. Please see the attachment.
Thank you for your help and we look forward to hearing for you soon.
Kind regards,
Dr. Chen Yingzi
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Reviewer 2 Report
From regional development perspective, this paper could provide clear policy intuition. This paper could be contributed academically and practically.
Author Response
Dear reviewer:
Thanks for the reviewer’ comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Coupling Evaluation and Spatial Analysis of Regional Development and Transportation System of Harbin-Changchun Urban Agglomeration” (No. sustainability-1616478). We have worked on both language and readability and have also involved native English speakers for language corrections. We really hope that the flow and language level have been substantially improved. Most of the revisions are in the manuscript, using the "Track Changes" function in Microsoft Word.
Thank you for your help and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Dr. Chen Yingzi
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Reviewer 3 Report
The authors deal with the close connection beetween the transportation systems and the economic development of a discrete number of Chinese cities and their urban agglomerations sited in the central China and in the western and eastern districts.
The approach is interesting and enough innovative, but the manuscript can be improved. In the model parameters and indeces of traffic dominance are introduced, but not all are defined clearly, as, for example, EDD and GDP indeces.
In the analitical expression (4) the meaning of G in the formula isn't clear. You write that G is the city, but G is written in a formula. Can you explain better this expression and its meaning?
Many numerical values, for example, the values of the index weight of economic development level (Table 3) are assumed but it isn't clear as they have been deduced. A major detail about the method with which the values of the different indeces have been weghted could be added.
The references are updated but they can be extended about similar or different approaches pointing out the advantages of the new proposed approach.
Sometimes there are some repetitions that can be avoided.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thanks for the reviewer’ comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Coupling Evaluation and Spatial Analysis of Regional Development and Transportation System of Harbin-Changchun Urban Agglomeration” (No. sustainability-1616478). Those comments and suggestions are helpful for revising and improving our paper. We have carefully made corrections and revised the manuscript which we wish to be approved.
The following mentioned page number and line number correspond to the version of “Track Changes”. Please see the attachment.
Thank you for your help and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Dr. Chen Yingzi
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Ready to be published in my opinion.
Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript has been revisioned and improved in the concepts that now are better specified and detailed and in the style.
Some sentences of the first version could be left for a wider clarity , i.e. the sentence of the GDP index that is missing in this last version of the manuscript or the DTN index.
In the introduction the recall to the measurement methods of coupling coordination economic levels from line 87 to line 102 are very good and appropriate.
In the section of Methods vey clear the added figures and formulas.
For the future studies I suggest to read a similar but different approach described in the paper that you can insert in the references entitled:
M.G.D'Urso, D.Masi (2015). "Multi-criteria decision -making methods and their applications for human resources" THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE PHOTOGRAMMETRY, REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 40, pp. 31-37, ISSN: 2194-9034, doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-6-W1-31-37, 2015
