Ridership and Human Mobility of Metro System under the Typhoon Weather Event: A Case Study in Fuzhou, China

With the climate change, there are more extreme weather events than ever before, which have characteristics of high uncertainty, large destructiveness, and extensiveness. Such events threat the normal life of populous urban areas and cause apparent perturbation to urban human mobility. Lots of studies investigate the urban human mobility pattern and the inherent mechanism, but few pay attention to the perturbations of human mobility under extreme weather events. To explore the perturbation of human mobility, this study collected the metro transaction data before and during the typhoon weather event in Fuzhou, China. The ridership of system level, station level and origin-destination level, and travel time distribution are compared quantitatively between the normal days and the typhoon days. Results showed that the typhoon weather influenced the ridership in system, station, and origin-destination levels, with varying degrees. The relative total traveled stations obtained larger impacts for leisure trips. In addition, travel time of metro trips follows the gamma distribution in different conditions, but with different parameters. It is found that there are higher probabilities for shorter travel time during the typhoon weather. Generally speaking, this study can provide some helps to improve the urban rail transit management under extreme weather events.

• Record URL:
  https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/15800
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Urban Rail Transit Systems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Lin, Yuchen
  • Jiang, Shixiong
  • Chen, Dewang
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
• Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Mobility; Rail transit; Ridership; Travel time; Typhoons; Weather conditions
• Geographic Terms: Fuzhou (China)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01764045
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-01198
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 4 2021 10:57AM