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Data Exploration and Modeling

appatton edited this page Mar 30, 2014 · 1 revision

This page is here to share information regarding our key question and to brainstorm important factors to answer our key question.

Key Question

What factors lead to high car ownership / mileage and how can this information be used to improve our impact on the environment?

Note: to make modeling easier, we should probably refine this question, which was just copied from the hackpad.

Important Variables

  • proximity to public transit/metro Boston center.
  • availability of public transit
  • walkability

Please add more variables here...

Exploration of factors and their effects

Proximity to Boston city center

The traffic analysis zones are numbered with 1 at the center of Boston and generally increase with distance from the city center. Over the course of testing merges, I (Allison) plotted log(mipdaypass) against TAZ number. I'll post the plot and relevant statistics later, but that is one variable we can potentially use.

Next variable

Description of the variable goes here.