Research Article

Effects of Coverage Area Treatment, Spatial Analysis Unit, and Regression Model on the Results of Station-Level Demand Modeling of Urban Rail Transit

Table 2

Variable description.

SymbolDescription

Demographic variables
 Housing unitNumber of housing units in CBG/CT
 PopulationPopulation in CBG/CT
 EmploymentTotal employment in CBG/CT
 HouseholdNumber of households (occupied housing units) (CBG/CT)
 Zero-carPercent of zero-car households
 One-carPercent of one-car households
 WorkerNumber of workers in CBG (home location) (CBG/CT)
 LowWageHPercent of workers earning $1250/month or less (home location)
 MedWageHPercent of workers earning between $1250/month and $3333/month (home location)

Land-use variables
 Bus stopNumber of bus stops in the station service coverage area
 Bus routeNumber of bus routes within a 200-meter radius of the urban rail transit station
 Distance to CBDDistance to Commercial Business District

Station characteristic variables
 TransferCoded as 1 if it is a transfer station and 0 otherwise
 TerminalCoded as 1 if it is a terminal station, and0 otherwise