Spatial variations in urban public ridership derived from GPS trajectories and smart card data

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 69, Issue , 2018, Pages 45-57

  Tu, Wei ^a   Cao, Rui ^c   Yue, Yang ^a   Zhou, Baoding ^a   Li, Qiuping ^d   Li, Qingquan ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Geographically weighted regression; Ridership; Smart card data; Taxi; Trajectory; Transit

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; GPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 85045698787     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.013     Document Type: Article

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