Abstract
With the acceleration of urban sprawl, many cities have extended their metro lines into peripheral areas. It is hoped that the expansion of transport network can promote the construction of less developed regions and help relieve overpopulation in city centers. When measuring the spatial quality of station catchment areas, land use and transport conditions are two main dimensions that should be paid attention to. But how they affect population distribution hasn’t been carefully studied yet. Up to now, there have been a substantial amount of studies relating to the comparatively well-developed transit stations in city centers whereas suburban stations still require further exploration. To fill this gap, our study aims to learn about current land use types, transport conditions and population aggregation around 97 suburban metro stations in Shanghai based on available information and data from Baidu Map and employs a stepwise regression approach to examine how the environmental variables affect population aggregation. The study shows that six land use variables and three transport-related variables are significantly associated with population aggregation on weekday while four land use variables and three transport-related variables show their significance on weekend. By finding out the coefficients of different land use and transport variables, this study hopes to guide government and urban planners in future planning in order to attract more people to live and work around suburban metro stations.
Highlights
Urban sprawl is an inevitable tendency around the world, and this phenomenon is noticeable especially in big cities
This study focuses on metro stations located outside the Outer Ring Road, which are defined as suburban metro stations
We import the data of land use types, transport conditions and population aggregation into IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0
Summary
Urban sprawl is an inevitable tendency around the world, and this phenomenon is noticeable especially in big cities. Due to the lack of developable land, insufficient supply of amenities and overcrowdedness of population in the urban cores, big cities are seeking for development opportunities in the urban periphery. Under this situation, decision makers try to attract more people to suburban areas in order to relieve the burden of city centers. To promote the development of remote areas, old metro lines are extended and new suburban metro lines are constructed. Stations along these metro lines are considered as catalytic points. Most of the suburban metro stations are newly constructed and their surrounding areas have not been developed thoroughly
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