Transit ridership forecasting at station level: An approach based on distance-decay weighted regression

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1081-1092

  Gutiérrez, Javier ^a   Cardozo, Osvaldo Daniel ^b   García Palomares, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Direct ridership models at station level; Distance decay weighted regression; GIS; Madrid; Metro

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; FORECASTING METHOD; GIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN TRANSPORT;

MADRID [MADRID (ADS/PRV)]; MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 79959596670     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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