Accessibility and the evaluation of investments on the Beijing subway

This 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.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.884
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Haibing Jiang and David Levinson.
• Authors:
  • Jiang, Haibing
  • Levinson, David
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 395-408
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport and Land Use
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  • ISSN: 1938-7849
  • Serial URL: https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Investments; Subway stations; Subways; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Beijing (China)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01666543
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2018 4:43PM