EVALUATING THE TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF THE MRT-7 LINE IN METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES
EVALUATING THE TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF THE MRT-7 LINE IN METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Author(s): ANGELO MARI PASCUAL, ROSEMARIE GOLTIAO, JERONIMO ANGELO LIM, WRYANNE JASMINE LOPEZ, MARC FERNAN OROZCO, JUN T. CASTROSubject(s): Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Social development
Published by: Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”
Keywords: Transport-Oriented Development; Geographic Information System; Urban Planning; MRT-7; Node-Place Model; Metro Manila;
Summary/Abstract: The worsening traffic congestion in Metro Manila highlights the need for well-implemented and integrated public mass transport. This study demonstrates the application of the Extended-Node-Place Model as a means of characterizing and classifying the selected 10 stations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) project in order to aid city and transportation planners to create, utilize or enhance the TransportOriented Development (TOD) attributes for each of the stations. With scores largely derived from geospatial processing using Geographic Information System (GIS), results show that three stations scored highly under Node and Place indices, one station is average across all three indices (i.e., Node, Place, and ‘Orientedness’), one station is an unsustained node, while the rest have a variation of low-average-average result for the three indices. With these results, a diagnostic is 2 produced that highlights areas of improvement and areas of strength. Planners can then provide measures based on desired outcomes for each index.
Journal: Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 1-23
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English
