Land use characteristics of subway catchment areas and their influence on subway ridership in Seoul

Myung-Jin Jun, Keechoo Choi, Ji-Eun Jeong, Ki-Hyun Kwon and Hee-Jae Kim

Journal of Transport Geography, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 30-40

Abstract: This study has dual research objectives: 1) to evaluate the land use characteristics of the pedestrian catchment areas (PCA) of subway stations in the Seoul metropolitan area (SMA) in terms of transit-oriented development (TOD) principles and 2) to investigate the influence of each PCA's land use characteristics on station-level ridership. The major findings can be summarized as follows. First, the built environments of subway PCAs in Seoul were found to be compatible with TOD principles in terms of density and diversity. They have declining density gradients of population and employment that extend outward from a station and have a high level of mixed-use land.

Keywords: Subway ridership; Land use patterns; Mixed land use; Pedestrian catchment area (PCA); Seoul (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.08.002

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