Study on optimal station plaza planning considering demand transfer among multiple stations

Abstract

The station plaza has important role as transport node, but both its number and scale is still not sufficient in Tokyo. As to accelerate the plaza development, improvement of its efficiency is required. In this study, we developed analytical tool for finding optimal scale of multiple station plazas simultaneously considering station choice behavior of railway user. As a result, simultaneous planning and concentration of investment on selected stations is found to be more efficient than individual plaza planning.