On joint railway and housing development: Housing-led versus railway-led schemes

Authors

Ka Fai Ng
Hong K. Lo

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2017

Subject Area

mode - rail, place - urban, land use - transit oriented development, economics - revenue, economics - profitability, economics - capital costs

Keywords

Time-dependent transport planning, Bid-rent process, TOD, Housing supply and railway development

Abstract

This paper develops a time-dependent framework to analyze the revenues and costs of housing and railway developments over time in a Transit Oriented Development, explicitly capturing the housing and railway development phasing. A bi-level mathematical program is formulated, in which the upper level optimizes the housing supply and railway development over time based on the perspective of a joint housing and railway developer, versus that of consumers and that of government. At the lower level, a nested logit framework is formulated to model the combined bid-rent process, residents’ location and travel choices in each period. Under certain assumptions, this study derives analytically the lead-lag relationships between housing development and railway development, based on the initial housing and transport conditions, as well as the stakeholders’ perspectives. The development strategies are generally different among the stakeholders, whilst possible win-win situations, in terms of developer profitability and consumer surplus, are identified under certain low housing density conditions, leading to a social optimum. This study also conducts sensitivity analyses to extend the results to multiple time periods and heterogeneous income classes, revealing that, for profitability, the joint developer may introduce housing development phasing that segregates residents of different income classes.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Recommended Citation

Ng, K.F., & Lo, H.K. (2017). On joint railway and housing development: Housing-led versus railway-led schemes. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Available online 23 June 2017. In Press, Corrected Proof.