Mass Rapid Transit Ridership Forecast Based on Direct Ridership Models: A Case Study in Wuhan, China

Table 4

Matrix of a bivariate correlation test between independent variables and ridership.

	Ridership	Population	Employment	Com_Area	Offi_Area	Land_use_Mix	Restaurant_Num	College_Num	Hospital_Num	Shopping_Num	Financial_Num	Parking_Num	Recreational_Num	Hotel_Num	Dis_to_centers	Bus_line_Num	Dummy_line_transfer	Dummy_CBD	J_Accessibility	P_Accessibility
Ridership	1	0.618	0.591	0.695	0.777	0.722	0.788	0.316	0.507	0.689	0.755	0.714	0.632	0.609	−0.585	0.425	0.569	0.537	0.561	0.555
Population		1	0.539	0.588	0.554	0.486	0.694	0.374	0.387	0.733	0.816	0.784	0.840	0.671	−0.669	0.599	0.176	0.637	0.653	0.705
Employment			1	0.567	0.577	0.501	0.438	−0.013	0.184	0.436	0.682	0.649	0.511	0.347	−0.528	0.427	0.445	.465	0.593	0.588
Com_Area				1	0.531	0.659	0.736	0.091	0.282	0.783	0.752	0.683	0.586	0.564	−0.533	0.486	0.223	0.448	0.492	0.506
Offi_Area					1	0.797	0.587	0.287	0.260	0.505	0.725	0.641	0.576	0.521	−0.511	0.223	0.399	0.339	0.455	0.443
Land_use_Mix						1	0.515	0.222	0.307	0.510	0.628	0.584	0.454	0.465	−0.514	0.313	0.349	0.294	0.497	0.479
Restaurant_Num							1	0.429	0.354	0.874	0.771	0.773	0.765	0.745	−0.497	0.412	0.133	0.481	0.410	0.426
College_Num								1	0.183	0.317	0.252	0.290	0.405	0.429	−0.287	0.144	0.043	0.235	0.130	0.143
Hospital_Num									1	0.315	0.359	0.330	0.334	0.338	−0.271	0.211	0.314	0.366	0.322	0.344
Shopping_Num										1	0.746	0.698	0.788	0.708	−0.457	0.478	0.165	0.584	0.455	0.491
Financial_Num											1	0.871	0.807	0.596	−0.638	0.522	0.276	0.521	0.576	0.600
Parking_Num												1	0.721	0.645	−0.686	0.587	0.173	0.544	0.624	0.640
Recreational_Num													1	0.675	−0.515	0.388	0.146	0.594	0.488	0.527
Hotel_Num														1	−0.436	0.368	0.064	0.394	0.370	0.401
Dis_to_centers															1	−0.565	-0.246	-0.442	-0.830	-0.847
Bus_line_Num																1	0.232	0.513	0.470	0.531
Dummy_line_transfer																	1	0.348	0.309	0.303
Dummy_CBD																		1	0.498	0.539
J_Accessibility																			1	0.988
P_Accessibility																				1

Significant at the 0.05 level. Significant at the 0.01 level.