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Title:

What determines rail transit passenger volume? Implications for Transit oriented development planning

Accession Number:

01631475

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Transit oriented development (TOD) has been an important topic for urban transportation planning research and practice. This paper is aimed at empirically examining the effect of rail transit station-based TOD on daily station passenger volume. Using IC card data on metro passenger volumes and cellular signaling data on the spatial distribution of human activities in Shanghai, the research identifies variations in ridership among rail transit stations. Then, regression analysis is performed using passenger volume in each station as the dependent variable. Explanatory variables include station area employment and population, residents’ commuting distances, metro network accessibility, status as interchange station, and coupling with commercial activity centers. The main findings are: (1) passenger volume in a metro station is significantly associated with station area employment density and residents’ commuting distance; (2) passenger volume is significantly correlated with the opening date of the station and its status as a transfer node; (3) passenger volumes tend to be higher in metro stations that are better integrated with nearby commercial development than those in otherwise comparable stations. Several implications are drawn for TOD planning: (1) TOD with high intensity of land use should be in proximity to metro stations; (2) high employment densities adjacent to metro stations should be especially encouraged as a key TOD feature; and (3) commercial development should be more strongly integrated with the planning for metro stations, and interchange stations should be more strategically positioned in the planning for rail transit network to achieve more balanced passenger flows.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Rail Transit Systems.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-05782

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Pan, Haixiao
Li, Jing
Shen, Qing
Shi, Cheng

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Shanghai (China)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-05782

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:19PM