Yingying Xu, Ho-Yin Chan, Anthony Chen and Xintao Liu 2022. Walk this way: Visualizing accessibility and mobility in metro station areas on a 3D pedestrian network. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 49 (4), pp. 1331-1335. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221089321
| Title | Walk this way: Visualizing accessibility and mobility in metro station areas on a 3D pedestrian network |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Yingying Xu, Ho-Yin Chan, Anthony Chen and Xintao Liu |
| Abstract | Accessibility and mobility are positioned differently at the heart of transportation planning; whilst a transportation system with high accessibility will not necessarily be able to support high mobility. In this short article, we evaluate and visualize the accessibility and mobility of pedestrian networks around the metro station areas in a transit-oriented city – Hong Kong. By using the newly released 3D pedestrian network for the whole of Hong Kong under the Open and Big Data Plans, we have created visualizations to compare the 500-m walking coverage area and reachable area with a 10-min walking distance that reflects the accessibility and mobility around metro station areas, respectively. We find that there are significant differences between accessibility and mobility for some stations. We illustrate the potential underlying causes by comparing three representative pairs of stations as examples. |
| Journal | Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science |
| Journal citation | 49 (4), pp. 1331-1335 |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221089321 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221089321 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published in print | May 2022 |
| Published online | 06 Apr 2022 |