Investigating transit-induced displacement with housing renter relocation data from urban China

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2025

Subject Area

place - asia, place - urban, mode - rail, land use - impacts

Keywords

Urban accessibility, rail transit

Abstract

The rail transit system has been widely acknowledged as a means of improving urban accessibility. However, there is concern that the benefits of rail transit are not equally distributed across different population groups. This study tests the rail transit-induced displacement hypothesis that the opening of new transit stations will cause relocation of incumbent residents for rising rents to less accessible locations. We explore the cases of three major cities in China—Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou—that substantially expanded their rail transit system. We employ a combination of difference-in-differences modelling, propensity score matching, and distance-band spatial regressions to analyze the destination choices of residents who leave new transit areas based on a novel individual-level dataset of housing renters. As a result of rail transit, displacement has occurred in all three cities, and those who are younger, in the IT sector, and whose workplaces are located far from transit stations are more likely to be negatively impacted.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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