The 20th and 21st joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2020-21)

Growing challenges in urban mobility dampen the benefits of urbanization and threaten China’s ambitions of becoming a sustainable and inclusive high-income nation. Over the years,ineffective public transportation services including limited coverage, lack of integration between public transit modes and other supporting facilities and lack of integration between land use planning and rail-based public transportation system have only exacerbated the unabated problems of chronic traffic congestion and environmental degradation. The primary field survey was conducted to collect data on land use density and diversity of mixed land use within 900m radius around the 42 selected metro station. Whereas, the passenger volume count method and the residential population and working population density were calculated by Cell Phone Signaling Data to count the passenger ridership on weekday covering both during peak hour and off-peak hour for twelve hours duration at the 42 selected stations. The method of analysis such as content analysis and descriptive analysis were applied. The main findings from the analysis on the effects of land use density and diversity on passenger ridership show a mixed result. In order to increase the use of public transport, other main components such as park and ride facilities, feeder bus services must also be considered in the planning of transit stations.

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