MBTA Ridership Analysis by Demographic Factors

Explore the impact of demographic factors on the ridership of public transit (light rail and subway(T)) in the Boston area. By Becca Flach, Camille Kawabata, Sally Lee, Sherry Li, Noah Woosley

See our full write up and analysis here

Use

All code for data processing and visualizations is contained in main.rmd.

To run, you will need to obtain API keys for Stadiamaps and Tidycensus, and substitute them into the code.

Data Sources & Packages

All necessary data has been downloaded and placed into this repository, and all packages are automatically installed by pacman.

Data Sources:

• Station Location Data
• Station Entry Data

Packages:

• pacman
• forcats
• dplyr
• readr
• ggplot2
• sfheaders
• geojsonsf
• sf
• purrr
• ggmap
• ggthemes
• tidycensus
• scales
• patchwork
• tidyverse