Travel demand analysis at the planning stage is important for metro system development. In practice, travel demand can be affected by various factors. This paper focuses on investigating the factors influencing Taipei metro ridership at station level over varying time periods. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple regression models with backward stepwise feature selection are employed to identify the influencing factors, including land use, social economic, accessibility, network structure information, etc. Network structure factors are creatively quantified based on complex network theory to accurately measure the related information. To enhance goodness-of-fit, the dummy variable distinguishing transportation hub is incorporated in the modeling. The main findings in this paper are three-fold: First, there is no distinct difference between influencing factors of boarding and those of alighting; Second, ridership is significantly associated with the number of nearby shopping malls, distance to city center, days since opening, nearby bus stations and dummy variable for transportation hub; Finally, the ridership on weekdays is mainly affected by commuting activities, while the ridership on weekends is driven by commercial access.


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    Title :

    An Analysis of Factors Influencing Metro Station Ridership: Insights from Taipei Metro


    Contributors:
    He, Yuxin (author) / Zhao, Yang (author) / Tsui, Kwok Leung (author)


    Publication date :

    2018-11-01


    Size :

    435435 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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