Measuring Access and Egress Distance and Catchment Area of Multiple Feeding Modes for Metro Transferring Using Survey Data

Xia Li, Zhenyu Liu and Xinwei Ma
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Xia Li: School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Zhenyu Liu: School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Xinwei Ma: School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-16

Abstract: Multiple feeding modes, including walking, bus, private bike, docked bike-sharing, private electric bike (e-bike), car, and taxi, are applied for better accessibility in a metro-based trip. It is crucial to understand their access/egress distances and corresponding catchment areas of metro stations. This paper determines these two distances and accessible areas of stations for different feeding modes based on Nanjing Population Survey data and GIS data by using a network-based approach in Nanjing, China. Considering the distribution of access/egress distance, regression models are established for the exploration of the threshold of distance to delineate catchment areas. What is more, the spatio-temporal characteristics of multiple feeding modes are analyzed. The results indicate that the average feeding distance of walking is the shortest, but docked bike-sharing has the shortest average feeding time, about 8 min. The average feeding time of private e-bikes is close to that of the private bike, but the feeding distance of private e-bikes is about 1.3 times as long as that of private bikes. Moreover, the origin of an over-10 km transfer for accessing metro stations is usually far away from metro lines and the transferring station is mostly the terminal station. Generally, longer access distance means larger catchment area but the result is also influenced by the condition of street network. Moreover, catchment areas for the same feeding modes are different between urban and suburban areas.

Keywords: multiple feeding modes; metro; access distance; egress distance; catchment area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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