The influence of traffic development on the development of ancient China society

The earliest mode of transportation with large capacity and high efficiency was waterway transportation. Because accessibility is one of the important factors that determine the location of a city, many important cities in history are located in large river basins with convenient transportation. Since then, the emergence of land vehicles such as donkeys, horses and unicycles has constituted the ancient transportation system. 1 the influence of ancient modes of transportation on urban form. Traffic in ancient cities mainly depended on walking and animal-drawn carts. Due to traffic restrictions, the spatial scale of the city is limited by walking and distance, and the radius of the city is less than 4.

Within the centralized layout plane of kilometers, that is, to ensure that urban residents walk 1.

H can reach the edge of the city from the city center, and the land use scale is about 15.

Square kilometers. At that time, the speed and volume of transportation were not high, and the quantity and quality of road construction were at a low level, so the mobility of people was very limited compared with today. All urban activities, such as industry, commerce and housing, generally revolve around the core area of the city, and land use is in a state of high density agglomeration. The city is small in scale and compact in shape, and the city presents the form of concentric circles. 2 ancient traffic and modern traffic 1) the change of traffic mode. Because the ancient modes of transportation were relatively backward, cities were mainly connected by land transportation and water transportation, while modern cities currently have five modes of transportation: railway transportation, road transportation, water transportation, air transportation and pipeline transportation. Early ancient means of transportation were relatively backward, and many post stations appeared along the main roads.