Accessibility and the Evaluation of Investments on the Beijing Subway

Haibing Jiang and David Levinson

No 146, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: This study measures the job and population accessibility via transit for Beijing using the cumulative opportunity metric. It is shown that transit accessibility varies widely across Beijing, but is highly focused on subway stations. Early lines added far more accessibility than more recently planned lines.

Keywords: Transportation Ð Economics; Transportation - Evaluation; Public Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R14 R41 R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Journal of Transport and Land Use. 10(1), 395-408.

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DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.2016.884

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