| Over the last decade, urban rail transit system development has been booming in urban China. The local government considers rail transit not only as an antidote to resolve traffic congestion and environmental pollution from cars, but also a stimulant to promote urban development and regeneration. Chinese metropolis layout as a polycentric and high density. And the rail transit station areas characterize with the similar land use, ungraded density and marginalized public facilities. It is definitely that the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) theory and experiences from America and European will not be applicable to Chinese cities. Empirical knowledge is critical to support TOD practice and transit-based strategies suitable to the Chinese local context. This thesis try to enrich the knowledge in the subject area from Wuhan, China. And the empirical documentation can inform policy decision making on TOD planning, for cities around the world.This thesis constructed TOD topology and proposed differentiated spatial pattern for rail transit station area based on transit access premium analysis from Wuhan, China.First of all, the study estimated transit access premiums by modeling hedonic price or rent of residential, commercial, and office properties. Spatial autoregressive models were employed to estimate the real estate value capture, based on residential retail and office observations along Wuhan's metro rail lines. Spatial heterogeneity and variance among the three types of real estate were discovered. Inside the downtown, the results show that transit access effects concentrate in the spatial range of 400-meter from the station for commercial properties, but extend to 700-meter for office and 800-meter for residential properties. And the commercial properties enjoy the highest access premiums, followed by office and residential uses. Outside downtown, transit access effects extend to 900-meter for residential but zoom out to 200-meter for office. The access premiums presents similar order for the three types. It was also reported that the curve of access premiums differ from property type inside the impact area. This empirical knowledge enables transit planners to modify transit catchment area planning for the interest of enhancing ridership forecasting and service planning.From the perspective of region, the thesis build a'spatial planning and development strategy'topology framework for rail transit station area. Utilizing the classification method based on function, TOD area was classified into four types: urban center, residential, special function area and transport huge. And the four types contains eight subcategories. On the other side, the'Node-Place-Revenue', which combined the station area environment and financial revenue, was structured to set up station area topology for policy-making. And 5 categories were discovered by the method, respectively Infill&Inhance, Connect, Gradual transformation, Plan&Partner and Envision.Based on the station topology, spatial pattern and development strategy were proposed in the thesis. For each subcategory of station area based on function method, the station area planning guidelines were discussed according to the five TOD planning elements after introducing experiences from typical cases study to Chinese urban. And differentiated strategies such as plan for planning, infrastructure improvement and value capture policy, were proposed for the Infill&lnhance, Connect, Gradual transformation, Plan&Partner and Envision station areas.For case study,102 rail transit station areas were categorized according to the 'spatial planning and development strategy'framework. The topology and proposed strategy will support the local ambitious planning to build Wuhan as 'Metro Metropolis'. |
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