Table 1.
Impact of weather factors on hourly trip counts in Greater Boston.
| Weekday |
Weekend | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Variable | All trips | All weekday | Commute | Transit (commute) | Non-commute | |
| All | Temperature (°C) | 1.009 * | 1.008 * | 1.006 * | 1.005 * | 1.011 * | 1.013 * |
| Humidity (%) | 0.995 * | 0.996 * | 0.998 * | 0.998 * | 0.995 * | 0.993 * | |
| Wind speed (km/h) | 1.004 * | 1.003 * | 1.004 * | 1.005 * | |||
| Precipitation (mm/h) | 1.023 * | 1.029 * | 1.041 * | ||||
| Snow | 0.845 * | 0.730 * | 0.708 * | 0.773 | 0.728 * | ||
| Thunder | 2.071 * | 1.527 | |||||
| Cloud cover | 1.120 * | 1.129 * | 1.126 * | 1.063 * | |||
| Heavy cloud cover | 1.045 * | 1.069 * | 1.079 * | 1.085 * | 1.076 * | ||
| Fog | 1.083 | 1.121 | 1.188 | 1.191 | |||
| Winter | Temperature (°C) | 1.017 * | 1.015 * | 1.004 | 1.026 * | 1.027 * | |
| Humidity (%) | 0.996 * | 0.997 * | 0.995 * | 0.994 * | |||
| Wind speed (km/h) | 0.998 * | 0.998 | 0.994 * | 0.997 | |||
| Precipitation (mm/h) | 0.861 * | ||||||
| Snow | 0.890 * | 0.844 * | 0.783 * | 0.801 * | 1.141 | ||
| Thunder | |||||||
| Cloud cover | 1.139 * | 1.179 * | 1.117 * | 1.078 | |||
| Heavy cloud cover | |||||||
| Fog | 0.486 * | 1.192 | |||||
| Spring | Temperature (°C) | 1.025 * | 1.021 * | 1.018 * | 1.018 * | 1.022 * | 1.043 * |
| Humidity (%) | 0.997 * | 0.997 * | 0.998 * | 0.997 * | |||
| Wind speed (km/h) | 1.004 * | 1.003 | 1.003 | 1.007 * | |||
| Precipitation (mm/h) | 0.929 | 0.869 * | |||||
| Snow | |||||||
| Thunder | 0.311 * | 0.261 * | |||||
| Cloud cover | 1.078 * | 1.112 * | 1.198 * | ||||
| Heavy cloud cover | 1.080 * | 1.138 * | 1.143 * | 1.214 * | 1.106 * | 0.869 * | |
| Fog | 2.291 * | ||||||
| Summer | Temperature (°C) | 1.012 * | 1.014 * | 1.021 | |||
| Humidity (%) | 0.993 * | 0.993 * | 0.997 | 0.992 * | 0.994 * | ||
| Wind speed (km/h) | 1.008 * | 1.004 | 1.011 * | 1.010 | 1.017 * | ||
| Precipitation (mm/h) | |||||||
| Snow | |||||||
| Thunder | |||||||
| Cloud cover | 1.070 * | 1.089 | 1.108 | ||||
| Heavy cloud cover | 1.094 * | 1.145 * | 1.116 * | 1.169 | 1.114 * | ||
| Fog | |||||||
| Autumn | Temperature (°C) | 1.019 * | 1.015 * | 1.010 * | 1.008 * | 1.018 * | 1.025 * |
| Humidity (%) | 0.993 * | 0.995 * | 0.997 * | 0.997 * | 0.994 * | 0.986 * | |
| Wind speed (km/h) | 1.005 * | 1.006 * | 1.003 * | 1.007 * | 1.005 * | ||
| Precipitation (mm/h) | 1.087 * | 1.070 * | 1.079 * | 1.151 * | |||
| Snow | 0.862 | 0.340 * | 0.012 * | 0.448 * | |||
| Thunder | 1.828 | 0.624 | |||||
| Cloud cover | 1.190 * | 1.232 * | 1.214 * | ||||
| Heavy cloud cover | |||||||
| Fog | 1.674 * | 1.465 * | 2.604 * | ||||
Note: Coefficients indicated with no asterisk are significant at α = 0.05 and coefficients indicated with an asterisk (*) are significant at α = 0.01. Variables corresponding to all insignificant coefficients were omitted during the model estimation process.