This study examines the spatial dynamics of warehouse location choice and the interplay between e-commerce, logistics businesses, and supply chain entities in three major urban areas in Texas: Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth. We investigate the key factors influencing warehouse selection while accounting for spatial spillover effects (i.e., co-locational relationships), using data from 2003 to 2016. A major finding is that different types of business establishments exert distinct influences on warehouse location choice, varying across spatial scales. Notably, the effects from neighboring spatial units sometimes diverge from the direct impacts. For instance, manufacturing establishments have a positive direct influence on warehouse location choice in all three study areas, while neighboring manufacturing units show negative effects in Austin and Dallas. The analysis also highlights that when spatial interactions among e-commerce facilities, logistics businesses, and supply chain entities in adjacent units are accounted for, several transportation infrastructure and socioeconomic factors lose their statistical significance. The results provide valuable insights for policymakers, industry practitioners, and urban planners for informed warehousing facility allocation and development decisions in Texas metropolitan areas.

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研究德克萨斯州三个大都市区物流活动的空间模式和经济互动


本研究考察了德克萨斯州三个主要城市地区（休斯顿、奥斯汀和达拉斯-沃斯堡）仓库位置选择的空间动态以及电子商务、物流企业和供应链实体之间的相互作用。我们使用 2003 年至 2016 年的数据调查了影响仓库选择的关键因素，同时考虑了空间溢出效应（即共址关系）。一个主要发现是，不同类型的商业机构对仓库位置选择施加不同的影响，并且因空间尺度而异。值得注意的是，来自相邻空间单元的影响有时与直接影响不同。例如，在所有三个研究区域中，制造企业对仓库位置的选择都有积极的直接影响，而在奥斯汀和达拉斯，相邻的制造单位则显示出负面影响。该分析还强调，当考虑相邻单元中的电子商务设施、物流企业和供应链实体之间的空间交互时，一些交通基础设施和社会经济因素将失去其统计意义。结果为政策制定者、行业从业者和城市规划者提供了宝贵的见解，以便在德克萨斯州大都市区做出明智的仓储设施分配和开发决策。