| Title |
Structural Characteristics of Urban Railway System in New York Metropolitan Areas as a Multinucleated City |
| Keywords |
에너지효율적인 도시 ; 다핵도시 ; 도시구조 ; 철도교통체계 Energy-Efficient City ; Multinuclear City ; Urban Structure ; Urban Railway System |
| Abstract |
This study aims to identify the structural characteristics of multinucleated city as an energyefficient city model. For this purpose, it explores the structure of an urban railway system as a skeleton of the multinucleated city. And it investigates the urban railway system of the New York Metropolitan Areas that was formed the city areas at the age of railroads before the suburbanization. The New York Metropolitan Areas is divided into the center city areas (Manhattan below the Central Park), residential city areas (Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Jersey City-Hoboken, Hudson and Bergen County), and suburban areas. And the New York Metropolitan Areas has 2 main cores (Lower Town and Midtown) and 2 sub-cores (Brooklyn Downtown and Jersey City-Hoboken). It analyzed the structure of the transit system depending on the city areas and cores structure. The findings are as following. Firstly, The New York Metropolitan Areas has the dual system; city areas are served as a subway system and suburban area is served as a commuter train system. The commuter train system has the self-supporting system divided by 3 regions (New Jersey, North New York, and Long Island), and subway system is linked closely by lines. Secondly, the structure of the lines is diverse depending on the city structure: (1) center city areas: grid-type, (2) the residential city areas: a radial-type, (3) the suburban areas: a tree-type. Finally, the terminal is located at the cores so that it has easy accessibility to any stations. Every core is also connected directly by the subway system. |