An Estimation Method for Passenger Flow Volumes from and to Bus Stops Based on Land Use Elements: An Experimental Study

Jianming Zhang, Jun Cai (), Mengjia Wang and Wansong Zhang
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Jianming Zhang: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Jun Cai: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Mengjia Wang: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Wansong Zhang: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: To unravel the general relationship between bus travel and land use around bus stops and along bus routes and to promote their coordinated development, this paper explores a method to estimate passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops based on land use types, intensities, and spatial distributions around bus stops and along bus routes. Firstly, following the principle of the gravity model, which considers traffic volumes analogous to gravity based on trip generation and distance impedance between traffic analysis zones (TAZs), a gravitational logic estimation method for passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops was constructed with land use elements between bus stop TAZs and the upstream and downstream collections of bus stop TAZs. Building upon this, the passenger flow volumes from and to 38 bus stops in the Xueyuan Square area of Dalian during weekday morning peak hours were taken as the experimental objects. The basic estimation models of two gravity sets corresponding to passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops were constructed using the bus travel generation based on the aggregation of area-based origin unit method and the bus travel distance impedance based on the probability density method. Finally, the reliability of the estimation method of passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops was verified by regression fitting between the surveyed values of passenger flow volume and the estimated values of the basic models. The results indicate that the fuzzy estimation and transformation of bus travel based on land use elements, which serves as a crucial lever for facilitating strategic alignment in transit-oriented development (TOD), can be effectively achieved by using the area-based origin unit method to aggregate bus travel generation and the probability density method to evaluate the bus travel distance impedance.

Keywords: passenger flow volume estimation method; passenger flow volume from and to bus stop; land use; trip generation and travel impedance; transit-oriented development; gravity model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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