Accessibility and the evaluation of investments on the Beijing subway

Abstract

is study measures the job and population accessibility via transit for Beijing using the cumulative opportunity metric. It is shown that transit accessibility varies widely across Beijing, but is highly focused on subway stations. Early lines added far more accessibility than more recently planned lines.

Understanding travel and differential capabilities and functionings in Beijing

“…This implies that the inner urban area provides better work and residence conditions than the suburbs. This finding is also in line with Jiang and Levinson's (2016) and Hu et al's (2017) research findings that there are regional disparities in job accessibility and job opportunity density, ranging from higher levels in the central areas to lower levels in the suburbs of Beijing.…”

Rail transit development in lagging regions: A development-oriented investment and financing approach

“…However, the public transit systems have much less impact on cities' life and their spatial forms nowadays than before. Studies show that several urban transit corridors failed to induce significant development as expected in the United States in recent years (Cervero & Landis, 1997;Li, Rosenheim, Dong, Boarnet, & Zhong, 2017;Loukaitou-Sideris & Banerjee, 2000;Zhong & Li, 2016) as well as the recent transit lines of first-tier cities in developing countries (Jiang & Levinson, 2017). The inconsistency was mainly attributed to the different levels of existing transportation infrastructure stock and the availability of developable land.…”

Tracking job and housing dynamics with smartcard data

“…The smartcard dataset includes 1-wk trip records (400 million per day) in April from 2011 to 2017. The Beijing subway network nearly doubled from 228 km to 609 km in 7 y (45). This paper conducts a year-to-year analysis to capture the moving behavior under network expansion, and rules are listed in SI Appendix , section R2.…”