Title
Discovering Transit-Oriented Development Regions of Megacities Using Heterogeneous Urban Data
Abstract
Public transport is of great significance in megacities. Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a reliable solution to urban sustainable development, which can reshape the urban form and improve its quality. This paper focuses on leveraging heterogeneous mega urban data to answer three critical questions in TOD: what region looks like under TOD concept, which regions have the potential to be TOD regions, and how to construct these TOD regions. For region partition, we propose a connected component-based clustering algorithm, which merges the large amount of public transport stops into representative cluster ones as region centers, and then apply the Voronoi algorithm to locate the region boundaries according to the cluster centers. For TOD region identification, we present a link importance-based random walk method that considers the importance of various transits and further identifies the most valuable regions to be TOD. For discovering functions of TOD regions, we introduce a multifactor-based function characterization approach that combines both the static linguistic factor and human mobility factor together and then derives the actual function distributions. The experiments, which are conducted on three real data sets, show the superiority of the proposed methods to solve the problems of region partition, TOD region identification, and function characterization for the megacities. In the meantime, the results provide support for the government to formulate public policy to construct a TOD city.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TCSS.2019.2919960
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Urban areas,Partitioning algorithms,Clustering algorithms,Public transportation,Government,Indexes
Data mining,Transit-oriented development,Computer science,Public policy,Public transport,Connected component,Voronoi diagram,Megacity,Cluster analysis,Sustainable development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
5
2329-924X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangjie Kong1815.36
Feng Xia22013153.69
Kai Ma36713.44
Jianxin Li444348.67
Qiuyuan Yang5344.32