Impact of weather on urban transit ridership

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 379-391

  Singhal, Abhishek ^a   Kamga, Camille ^b   Yazici, Anil ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Station characteristics; Transit ridership models; Trip characteristics; Weather impacts

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

NEW YORK CITY TRANSITS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; STATION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSIT RIDERSHIPS; TRIP CHARACTERISTICS; WEATHER IMPACT; WEATHER PROTECTIONS;

SUBWAYS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; MODELING; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN TRANSPORT; WEATHER;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907951700     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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