scholarly journals Improved Huff Model for Estimating Urban Rail Transit Station Catchment Areas considering Station Choices

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhenjun Zhu ◽  
Yudong He ◽  
Xiucheng Guo ◽  
Yibang Zhang ◽  
Junlan Chen

Estimating urban rail transit station catchment areas is of great significance to deepening our understanding of Transit-Oriented Development in Chinese megacities. This study investigated station choices of residents and considered that residents may not only pay attention to the proximity to stations when the URT system develops into a relatively mature network. An improved Huff model was proposed to calculate the probability of residents’ station choice, which considered the station attractiveness. The station attractiveness is measured by three variables: walk score, public transport accessibility level, and service and facility index. The additive form based on multicriteria decision is adopted to incorporate experts’ opinions on the importance of three variables. In this study, extended catchment areas that can be accessed by cycling and feeder bus services are adopted to replace the conventional pedestrian-oriented catchment areas. A case study of Xi’an, China, was used to validate the applicability of the proposed methodology. The results revealed that the methodology effectively solved the problem. The findings could be used as a reference and provide technical support to policymakers and city planners with regard to the transport facilities configuration for URT station catchment areas, which contributes to facilitating transit-oriented development.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenjun Zhu ◽  
Xiucheng Guo ◽  
Jun Zeng ◽  
Shengrui Zhang

As an important part of urban public transportation systems, the feeder bus fills a service gap left by rail transit, effectively extending the range of rail transit’s service and solving the problem of short-distance travel and interchanges. By defining the potential demand of feeder bus services and considering its relationship with the traffic demands of corresponding staging areas, the distance between road and rail transit, and the repetition factor of road bus lines, this paper established a potential demand model of roads by opening feeder bus services and applying a logit model for passenger flow distribution. Based on a circular route model, a route starting and ending at urban rail transit stations was generated, and a genetic algorithm was then applied to solve it. The Wei-Fang community of Shanghai was selected as the test area. Per the model and algorithm, the feeder route length was conformed to a functional orientation of short-distance travel and the feeder service of a feeder bus; the route mostly covered where conventional bus lines were fewer, which is a finding that is in agreement with the actual situation; the feasibility of the model and algorithm was verified.


Author(s):  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Zheyi Zhong ◽  
Tianran Zhang

The concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely recognized in recent years for its role in reducing car traffic, improving public transportation, and enhancing traffic sustainability. This paper conducts empirical research on a developed rail transit network, using Shanghai as a case study. In addition to traditional TOD features, other factors based on urban rail transit are introduced, including multi-level modeling (MLM), which is used to analyze the possible factors influencing rail patronage. To avoid the bias of research results led by the correlation between independent variables, factors are divided into two levels. The first level includes three groups of variables: the built environment, station characteristics, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The second level includes a set of variables which are regional characteristics. Results show that the most significant impact on train patronage is station location in the business district area. Other factors that have a positive effect on promoting rail transit travel include the number of service facilities around the station, degree of employment around the station, economic level, intensity of residential development, if the station is a transfer station, the operating period of the station, and the size of the large transportation hub around the station.


2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 256-259
Author(s):  
Ping Hong Wei ◽  
Jie Xiong ◽  
Meng Hao Zhang

The feeder bus network design problem is researched in this paper, aiming at connecting with the urban rail transit as well as possible. In solving the problem, a set of process in locating feeder bus routes is presented first, and then an optimization model of determining feeder bus network is established. The genetic algorithm (GA) is used in solving the problem and it is implemented in VC++ language. Finally, a case study is presented based on the existing rail transit line 3 in Dalian, with optimized the feeder bus routes obtained. The result also shows that the model and the algorithm are feasible in solving the problem.


2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 1995-2000
Author(s):  
Qiao Mei Tang ◽  
Li Ping Shen ◽  
Xian Yong Tang

large passenger flow is a common condition of urban transit operation, and the station bears the pressure of large passenger flow directly. This paper analyzes the reason for the appearance of large passenger flow and the characteristics of it, discusses the principles and methods that the station can apply under large passenger flow combined with the passenger’s transport process and the operation process.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhuang Pian ◽  
Jinshuan Peng ◽  
Lunhui Xu ◽  
Pan Wu ◽  
Jinlong Li

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