The Belt and Road (B&R) is a new strategy and measure for China to extend its opening up. To explore the influence of the spatiotemporal distribution of the national road network along the B&R on economic growth, this paper adopts the subjective and objective integrated weighting method to build a regional economic evaluation model, a transportation network evaluation model, and an economy-transportation coupling coordination degree model (E-T model). We also quantitatively analyze and evaluate the coordinated development of the economy and transportation in the countries along the B&R. Our re...
