Research Article

Forecasting Method for Urban Rail Transit Ridership at Station Level Using Back Propagation Neural Network

Table 3

Weights for nodes in input layer and hidden layer.

WeightsHidden layer
Node 1Node 2Node 3Node 4

Input
layer
Neural 1 (0-1 km band population)
Neural 2 (1-2 km band population)
Neural 3 (2-3 km band population)
Neural 4 (3-4 km band population)
Neural 5 (4-5 km band population)
Neural 6 (5-6 km band population)
Neural 7 (road density)0.08770.0819−0.08220.0778
Neural 8 (number of shuttle bus lines)0.0996−0.219−0.1320.0238
Neural 9 (land use mix)2.3131.702−1.3691.608
Neural 10 (peak-hour unidirectional train frequency)0.01320.0069−0.007
Neural 11 (station type (terminal or not))−0.2941.13250.8691.168