Transit ridership estimation with network Kriging: a case study of Second Avenue Subway, NYC

Dapeng Zhang and Wang, Xiaokun (Cara)

Journal of Transport Geography, 2014, vol. 41, issue C, 107-115

Abstract: An attractive topic in transportation practice is transit ridership estimation. Reliable estimates are beneficial to spatial structuring, facility design, and vehicle operation, as well as financial and labor management. Traditional ridership estimation approaches mainly rely on regression models that consider subway fares, population, and employment distribution in surrounding areas. Yet consideration of ridership’s spatial dependency is largely lacking in these models. This paper recognizes the spatial effect by estimating the ridership of the new Second Avenue Subway in New York City using a network Kriging method. Network distance, instead of Euclidean distance, is used to reflect the fact that subway stations are only connected by subway tunnels. Results show that the new service should effectively relieve the traffic burden on other currently crowded subway lines.

Keywords: Network distance; Kriging; Spatial econometrics; Transit ridership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.08.021

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