Inspec keywords: road vehicles; public transport; environmental factors; smart cards; regression analysis

Other keywords: decision making tool; wind speed; bus route types; weather variables; Fengxian; public transportation; long-term transit policy making; rainfall; weather attributes; humidity; short-term ridership forecasting; temperature; Shanghai; mode share characteristics; cluster analysis; dummy variables; smart card data; bus ridership; data collection; geographical contexts; separate multiple linear regression models; weather impact analysis; season characteristics; ridership data analysis

Subjects: Other topics in statistics; Systems theory applications in transportation