Accessibility and the evaluation of investments on the Beijing subway

Haibing Jiang; David M Levinson

doi:10.5198/jtlu.2016.884

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2016-12-27

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2017)

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Jiang, H., & Levinson, D. M. (2016). Accessibility and the evaluation of investments on the Beijing subway. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.884

Accessibility and the evaluation of investments on the Beijing subway

Haibing Jiang

Yancheng Teachers University

David M Levinson

University of Minnesota

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4563-2963

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.884

Keywords: Accessibility, Transport, Land Use, Networks, Development, Density

Abstract

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.

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