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 componentsVariablesComponent 1Component 2Component 3Component 4

Component 1: factors related to the built environmentRestaurant_Num0.837
Shopping_Num0.791
Financial_Num0.774
Com_Area0.768
Hotel_Num0.716
Parking_Num0.716
Recreational_Num0.715
Offi_Area0.679
Land_use_mix0.629

Component 2: factors related to jobs-housing spatial structureP_Accessibility0.889
J_Accessibility0.859
Dis_to_centers−0.781
Bus_line_Num0.681
Population0.613
Dummy_CBD0.564
Employment0.510

Component 3: factors related to station attributesDummy_line_transfer0.833

Component 4: factors related to large compoundCollege_Num0.734
Hospital_Num0.595

Correlation coefficients between variables and components greater than 0.5 are shown in the table.