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Examining the Interaction of Taxi and Subway Ridership for Sustainable Urbanization

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  • Miaoyi Li

    (School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
    Miaoyi Li and Lei Dong contributed equally to this work.)

  • Lei Dong

    (School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing100084, China
    Miaoyi Li and Lei Dong contributed equally to this work.)

  • Zhenjiang Shen

    (School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
    School of Architecture, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
    Key Laboratory of New Technology for Construction of Cities in Mountain Area, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China)

  • Wei Lang

    (Faculty of Construction and Environment, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 00852, China)

  • Xinyue Ye

    (Department of Geography and Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, Kent 44242, USA)

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.

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  • Miaoyi Li & Lei Dong & Zhenjiang Shen & Wei Lang & Xinyue Ye, 2017. "Examining the Interaction of Taxi and Subway Ridership for Sustainable Urbanization," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-12, February.
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