Research on the Location of Urban Rail Transit Station based on the Integration of Land Use Layout and Regional Transportation Network

The location of Urban Rail Transit (URT) station has always been a problem worth studying. With the rapid development of URT in major cities, sustainable development has been paid more and more attention. In the process of new urbanization in China, the location of URT station no longer consider only the traffic demand and passenger flow, but also the connection with the regional transportation network, harmonious neighborhood environment and reasonable layout of land use. This paper presents a bi-level multi-objective model of location of URT station, which integrated land use layout and regional transportation network. A max-min ant system (MMAS) algorithm integrated with the Frank-Wolfe algorithms is proposed to solve this NP-Hard problem. The effectiveness of the model and algorithm is verified by a case study of the east area of Guang'an City, and the superiority of the scheme generated by the model is shown by comparative analysis. This paper provide a new method to select location of URT station for planners in initial urban planning stage.