Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Student : I-Fan Wang, 2006.06
Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University

　　Land resources have been one of mankind's most important resources all the time from ancient times. Though scholars have studied land and related topics from early on, the methods for utilizing land resources are constantly updated, paralleling the society's progress. Therefore, studies on land use changes must also stay updated and progressive. Consider Taipei metropolitan area, for instance: the Taipei metro system began its initial network operation between 1996 and 2000 and changed the land use of metropolitan area. In consequence, the analysis of influence factors in the land use changes along metro line becomes the main purpose of this research.

　　To specify "space" and "time", this research used the Metro Blue Line as its center, and the four-hundred meters to the left and right of its width as the area of study. The studied area was charted with a 100m by 100m grid cells as sample, with the land use before 1994 demarcated as "before the change", and use in 2006 as "after the change," using multinomial logit model to explore the influence factors in the land use changes along the metro line.

　　This research concludes that 1) for the undeveloped land, the percentage of adjacent grid cells in residential use, undeveloped (agriculture) land use zoning, announced land current value margins, the distance to the metro station and the width of the adjacent roads are the significant factors; 2) for the residential land, the population, announced land current value, the distance to the metro station, within 200 meters of the metro line, the width of the adjacent roads, the percentage of adjacent grid cells in undeveloped land, the percentage of adjacent grid cells in commercial use, residential land use zoning, and commercial land use zoning are the significant factors; 3) the influence factors in the land use change along the metro line will, in fact, differ according to different situations of change; 4) the population growth is not significant in any of the models, perhaps due to the fact that the areas along Metro Blue Line are already highly developed since 1994.