 A bottom-up transportation network efficiency measuring approach: A case study of taxi efficiency in New York CityWei Zhai, Xueyin Bai, Zhong-ren Peng and Chaolin Gu Journal of Transport Geography, 2019, vol. 80, issue C Abstract: In this paper, we proposed an improved transportation network efficiency (TNE) measurement method, which is called passenger- and speed-weighted efficiency (PSWE). The new method is used to measure both origin-destination-level (OD-level) transportation efficiency and citywide transportation efficiency by integrating with the excess commuting (EC) framework. To show the feasibility of the proposed measurement method, we chose New York City (NYC) as the study area and employed open taxi data. By calculating the efficiency value of the OD-level, we discovered that the average distance of highly efficient taxi trips is much longer than that of inefficient trips. Then, the OD-level efficiency value is applied to the EC framework by replacing the conventional cost unit (time or distance) with the proposed efficiency impedance (Eimp). The maps of minimized OD flows indicate that taxi trips within Manhattan and to the two airports (LGA and JFK) should be particularly considered if citywide efficiency is expected to be improved. Keywords: Transportation network efficiency; OD-level efficiency; Citywide efficiency; Taxi efficiency; Big data (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jotrge:v:80:y:2019:i:c:s0966692318305933 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102502 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Transport Geography is currently edited by Frank Witlox More articles in Journal of Transport Geography from Elsevier |
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