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.
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