Exploring the Intermodal Relationship between Taxi and Subway in Beijing, China

• DOI: 10.1155/2018/3981845
• Publication Date: 2018-07-02T09:39:30Z
• Authors: Shixiong Jiang; Wei Guan; Zhengbing He; Liu Yang
• Keywords: Taxis; Subway station; Bridge (graph theory)

Taxi is an indispensable mode in the urban public transportation. Although many studies have explored travel patterns of taxi trips, few combined and subway to reveal their intermodal relationship. To bridge gap, this study utilized taxi’s trajectory data investigate its relationship with subway. Considering multifaceted between operation, trips are categorized into three types, namely, subway-competing, subway-extending, subway-complementing trips. The characteristics each type reflect specialties interactions origin/destination distributions compared analyzed. Furthermore, supply demand within buffer zone station analyzed difficulty hailing taxis. negative binomial regression models used explore ridership. results show that there a significantly positive correlation