Analysis of the impact of street-scale built environment design near metro stations on pedestrian and cyclist road segment choice: A stated choice experiment

Authors

Yanan Liu
Dujuan Yang
Harry J.P. Timmermans
Bauke de Vries

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2020

Subject Area

mode - bike, mode - pedestrian, mode - subway/metro, infrastructure - station, land use - planning, land use - impacts

Keywords

Micro-scale built environment, Stated choice experiment, Multinomial logit model, Pedestrians, Cyclists, Metro station

Abstract

The mismatch between the design of the micro-scale built environment around metro stations and pedestrian/cyclist preferences causes inconvenience and dissatisfaction. How to design streets near metro stations to provide a walking/biking friendly built environment is still a key question in promoting the use of metro systems. To identify which general attributes of the street-scale built environment are relevant for pedestrians/cyclists and increase walkability/cycle-ability, this paper reports the results of a stated choice experiment in which eight built environment attributes were systematically varied: street segment length, average number of building floors on both sides of the street, retail shops in frontage of streets, street crossing facilities for pedestrians/cyclists, width of sidewalks/bicycle paths, greenery, density of street lamps and crowdedness of pedestrian/cyclists to understand their influence on a road segment choice and preferences. A total of 803 respondents were recruited from Tianjin, China to complete the stated choice experiment through on-street face-to-face interviews. A multinomial logit model was estimated to unravel pedestrian/cyclist preferences using the stated choice data. The results indicate that pedestrians and cyclists have similar preferences for road segments with building lower than 6 floors, 50% retail shops in frontage, more greenery, lamps between 15 m and 30 m, more crossing facilities, wider sidewalk/bike lane and not crowded. These significant built environment attributes can be used in urban design projects with a walking/biking friendly built environment around a metro station.

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

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Recommended Citation

Liu, Y., Yang, D., Timmermans, H.J.P., & de Vries, B. (2020). Analysis of the impact of street-scale built environment design near metro stations on pedestrian and cyclist road segment choice: A stated choice experiment. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 82, 102570.