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http://hdl.handle.net/10397/76442| Title: | Examining the interaction of taxi and subway ridership for sustainable urbanization | Authors: | Li, MY Dong, L Shen, ZJ Lang, W Ye, XY |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | Sustainability, Feb. 2017, v. 9, no. 2, 242, p. 1-12 | Abstract: | A transit ridership study is an essential part of sustainability, and can provide a deep understanding of people's travel patterns for efficient transportation development and urbanization. However, there is a lack of empirical studies comparing subway and taxi services, and their interactions within a city, that is to say, the interdependent transportation networks. Incorporating new data, this study aims to examine the spatial variation of urban taxi ridership due to the impacts of a new subway line operation opened in 2014 in Wuxi, China. We examine the spatial patterns and interactions of ridership in Wuxi by integrating taxi trajectory from GPS data and subway data from continuously collected fare transactions. The results indicated that the demand for taxi and subway usage is quite elastic with respect to both location and time, and the new subway's opening had more influence on areas adjacent to subway stations and urban center-suburban travel. Furthermore, increases in travel time and distance would increase the demand for subway, while taxi trips largely represented movements for those locations that the subway could not reach. This paper betters the understanding of travel patterns through large volumes of transportation data for sustainable urbanization policy design. | Keywords: | Taxi ridership Subway Origin-destination New data Sustainable urbanization |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Sustainability | ISSN: | 2071-1050 | EISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su9020242 | Rights: | © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Li, M. Y., Dong, L., Shen, Z. J., Lang, W., & Ye, X. Y. (2017). Examining the interaction of taxi and subway ridership for sustainable urbanization. Sustainability, 9(2), (Suppl. ), 242, - is available athttps://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9020242 |
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