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This study examined nine tertiary Grade-A hospitals in central Tianjin using 2,596 questionnaires from hospital visitors and spatial data on road networks, bus and metro stations, expressways, and points of interest. Six spatial and transport indicators were evaluated: surveyed medical-visitor density, regional service coverage, transport accessibility, distance to expressways, public transit coverage, and road network density. An ensemble framework dominated by a graph convolutional network was used to predict supply-demand relationships between respondents and hospitals and to compare scenarios in terms of service utility, travel efficiency, and lower-carbon performance. Respondents generally reported a travel tolerance of within 20 km and 60 min, while their willingness to use direct public transport declined as the number of stops increased. The ensemble achieved a reported validation accuracy above 90% under the study\u2019s validation procedure. 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