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A Seasonal Autoregressive Model Of Vancouver Bicycle Traffic Using Weather Variables

Christopher Gallop*, Cindy Tse**, Jinhua Zhao***

* School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia.

**-*** Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia.

Periodicity:September - November'2011
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jce.1.4.1694

Abstract

This paper uses hourly bicycle counts and weather data that are continuous and year-round to model bicycle traffic in Vancouver, Canada. The study uses seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analysis to account for complex serial correlation patterns in the error terms and tests the model against actual bicycle traffic counts. Temperature, rain, rain in the previous 3 hours and humidity are all found to be significant, with clearness found to be marginally significant at the 10% level. The combined effect of rain and its lags is close to 24% of the average hourly bicycle traffic counts, which is larger than the impact of it being a holiday or a Saturday, although the impact of it being a Sunday is still larger. An increase of one degree Celsius from the mean is generally found to increase bicycle traffic counts by 1.65%, so an increase of 10 degrees would increase bicycle traffic by 16.5%. The coefficients on humidity and clearness are small. A decrease in bicycle traffic of only 0.08% is observed per unit change in relative humidity and 0.62% at each of the four transitions between categories of cloudy to perfectly clear skies.

Keywords

Weather, Cycling, Seasonal Autoregressive Model, Time Series Analysis, Vancouver, Transit.

How to Cite this Article?

Gallop, C., Tse, C., and Zhao, J. (2011). A Seasonal Autoregressive Model Of Vancouver Bicycle Traffic Using Weather Variables. i-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering, 1(4), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.26634/jce.1.4.1694

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A Seasonal Autoregressive Model Of Vancouver Bicycle Traffic Using Weather Variables

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