The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has caused sudden shocks in transportation systems, specifically the subway ridership patterns in New York City (NYC), U.S. Understanding the temporal pattern of subway ridership through statistical models is crucial during such shocks. However, many existing statistical frameworks may not be a good fit to analyze the ridership data sets during the pandemic, since some of the modeling assumptions might be violated during this time. In this paper, utilizing change point detection procedures, a piecewise stationary time series model is proposed to capture the nonstationary structure of subway ridership. Specifically, the model consists of several independent station based autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models concatenated together at certain time points. Further, data-driven algorithms are utilized to detect the changes of ridership patterns as well as to estimate the model parameters before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data sets of focus are daily ridership of subway stations in NYC for randomly selected stations. Fitting the proposed model to these data sets enhances understanding of ridership changes during external shocks, both in relation to mean (average) changes and the temporal correlations.


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    Title :

    Non-Stationary Time Series Model for Station-Based Subway Ridership During COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study of New York City


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    2022-04-04




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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