Research Article
Mass Rapid Transit Ridership Forecast Based on Direct Ridership Models: A Case Study in Wuhan, China
Table 5
Eigenvectors of the principal components
and the correlation matrix.
| Principal components | Variables | Component 1 | Component 2 | Component 3 | Component 4 |
| Component 1: factors related to the built environment | Restaurant_Num | 0.837 | | | | Shopping_Num | 0.791 | | | | Financial_Num | 0.774 | | | | Com_Area | 0.768 | | | | Hotel_Num | 0.716 | | | | Parking_Num | 0.716 | | | | Recreational_Num | 0.715 | | | | Offi_Area | 0.679 | | | | Land_use_mix | 0.629 | | | |
| Component 2: factors related to jobs-housing spatial structure | P_Accessibility | | 0.889 | | | J_Accessibility | | 0.859 | | | Dis_to_centers | | −0.781 | | | Bus_line_Num | | 0.681 | | | Population | | 0.613 | | | Dummy_CBD | | 0.564 | | | Employment | | 0.510 | | |
| Component 3: factors related to station attributes | Dummy_line_transfer | | | 0.833 | |
| Component 4: factors related to large compound | College_Num | | | | 0.734 | Hospital_Num | | | | 0.595 |
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Correlation coefficients between variables and components greater than 0.5 are shown in the table. |