Examining the Interaction of Taxi and Subway Ridership for Sustainable Urbanization

Miaoyi Li, Lei Dong, Zhenjiang Shen, Wei Lang and Xinyue Ye
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Miaoyi Li: School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
Lei Dong: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing100084, China
Zhenjiang Shen: School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
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

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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