Over the past few decades of research on relationship between built environment and urban transport a number of issues have appeared that density development and mixed land use would reduce the choice of private vehicle and encourage the transit system One key concern for urban planners is how the built envirnment influences on urban transit system at the different neighborhood area Therefore our purpose attempts to analyse the different factors of transit ridership at an empirical area by five-D concepts including density divesity design destination accessibility and distance to transit This study took Taipei Metro as an example to investigate the factors of built environment on ridership in 108 metro stations The data consisted of different database of government and Open Street Map from December 2017 to November 2018 We compiled this data around station by 600 meters as the best goodness-of-fit model and conducted seasonal ridership as dependent variables due to the small sample problem Furthermore compared with this OLS model we also developed the multi-scale geographically weighted regression (GWR) in different area to fix the spatial scale problem of coefficient Our findings indicate the seasonal ridership and repeated independent variables of OLS model in more local area to some extent deal with the worse coefficient of determination To conclude this study may be of importance in explaining the factors of built environment on transit ridership and furthor applied for Transit-oriented development (TOD) strategy
The Impact of the Built Environment on Station-level Rail Transit Ridership: the Taipei Metro Case
徨仁, 楊. (Author). 2020
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis