2.2 LAND USE CLASSIFICATION Station locations follow urban planning principles. Land use of the station surrounding area can illustrate the urban functions it serves, its user group and people’s travel behaviors. Therefore, we try to use the proportion of different types of land sue to classify stations into several typologies, and to explore how people’s travel destinations change with pandemic phases.
The land use distribution varies a lot among different rail stations. To standardize the land use classification, we identify 9 station typologies based on the proportion of different land use.
We create a 700 meters buffer zone for each station since its a suitable walking distance within 10 minutes. Further, we intersect Singapore 2019 land use map and stations wtih 700-meter buffer and figure out the proportion of different types of land use surrounding each station.
Figure 2.2.3 Rail Station Typologies Based on Land Use
Figure 2.2.1 Land Use within 700-meter Buffer Zones of Rail Stations (Interactive Map) This figure illustrate different types land use in the surrounding area each rail stations. We need to further calculate the proportion of each type of land use for each station.
Figure 2.2.4 Rail Station Typologies (Interactive Map)
All rail stations are classified into different land use typologies according to their land use profile. Some stations have multiple typologies like CC2 (commercial, open space), CC25 (business, public facilities), PW2 (public facilities, open space), etc. We didn’t try to restrict each station to one typology, since the diverse identity can make our analysis more accurate. Figure 2.2.2 Proportions of Different Land Use in 700-meter Buffer Zones of Rail Stations
The typologies of rail stations are joined to od data so we can further explore how people’s travel destination change according to different station typology in different pandemic phases.
