Friday, April 22, 2011

Space Syntax and Transit Networks

by Joshua Weiland

This paper looks at nineteen subway systems from around the world, and the relationship between two sets of spatial properties and system ridership. The first hypothesis is subway systems’ intelligibility (Hillier, 1996, p. 129) is correlated to boardings. Second, a proof-of-concept will be attempted, hypothesizing that in the Washington Metro, stations’ integration, connectivity and total depth (Hillier, 1996) are correlated to boardings. The method of analysis was successful, but only one set of hypotheses was supported: intelligibility is not shown to be correlated to ridership, but all three syntactic attributes were shown to be correlated to the Washington Metro’ station boardings.


other Space Syntax papers:

THE EFFECTS OF PROPOSED BRIDGES ON URBAN MACROFORM OF ISTANBUL: a syntactic evaluation

Planning a Deep Island: introducing Space Syntax to an urban planning process for Phuket, Thailand

Analysis of urban complex networks

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