Research Article

A Bus-Service-Based Zone Division Approach for the Spatial Analysis of Public Bus: A Case Study in South China

Table 3

Estimated parameters and diagnostic statistics in GWR models.

VariablesMinMaxMean value

Bus flow calculated by the BS-based method
Intercept−0.3830.432−0.018
Number of shops0.1360.9450.517≤0.001
Number of scenic spots−0.0940.6950.137≤0.001
Number of factories−0.7530.052−0.211≤0.001
Number of automobile maintenance shops−0.2710.4150.145≤0.001
AIC587.662
0.789
Residual sum of squares76.882

Bus flow calculated by the grid-based method
Intercept−0.2090.4300.013
Number of shops0.0651.0500.611≤0.001
Number of scenic spots−0.0520.3770.105≤0.001
Number of factories−0.4210.106−0.096≤0.001
Number of automobile maintenance shops−0.3770.8740.183≤0.001
AIC942.358
0.746
Residual sum of squares139.793