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Trans. Planning Journal

Title Built Environment Impacts on the Mode Choice of Metro Access: An Empirical Study of the Nangang Metro Line In Taipei
Author Jen-Jia Lin, Chien-Tung Wu, Ruo-Ting Fang
Summary   This study aimed at empirically analyzing the impacts of built environments around trip ends on the mode choice of metro access by using the passengers of four stations along the Nangang Metro Line in Taipei as study sample. The study began with literature reviews and interviews to develop hypothetical relation- ships. To verify the proposed hypothetical relationships, questionnaire survey and discrete choice models were employed to obtain and analyze sample data. Finally, the possible reasons and meanings of the inconsistency between hypothetical relationships and empirical results were carefully examined. The empirical results of entering station trips show that population density, intersection density and number of banks increase non-motorized mode uses; employee density, transport mode diversity and distance to metro station decrease non-motorized transport mode uses; employee density, block size, bikeway length and road length increase bus uses; and, population density, building density and parking space decrease bus uses. For leaving station trips, population density, building density, distance to bus stops and number of shops increase non-motorized transport mode uses; employee density, vehicle density, mixed land uses, transport mode diversity and road length decrease non- motorized transport mode uses; employee density increases bus uses; and, vehicles density decreases bus uses. Based on likelihood ratio tests, built environment variables significantly contributed the goodness-of-fit of mode choice models for metro access.
Vol. 40
No. 4
Page 335
Year 2011
Month 12
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