The Study on Value Assessment of Comprehensive Use and Development for Urban Rail Transit Stations

Abstract

With the fast development of urban rail transit in China, the comprehensive use and development of the land surrounding rail transit stations become an important development strategy for all big cities. How to select “nodes”, which represent those stations, with a significant development value in a rail transit network is the key component of comprehensive land use and development. In order to quantitatively assess the value of comprehensive land use and development for urban rail transit stations, this paper demonstrates a method to assess this value by evaluating the accessibility ofnodes in the rail transit network and conducts a case study of simulation analysis on the existing rail transit network in Chengdu by using ArcGIS. The results of the simulation show that the rail transit stations with more transfer routes have better accessibility and the land around these stations is of higher value for comprehensive utilization and development. In addition, this paper found that the accessibility of rail transit stations should be improved with more rail transit express lines to connect to stations, and rail transit loop lines have better accessibility of stations than non-loop lines.