recurring problem I'm encountering re: average bus ridership is the drastic fluctuations you get--it's hard to be sure if there's an error in the data collection, in my processing it, or if ridership really just varies that much; all are plausible explanations
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So, out of all options, I'm *most* sure that it really just varies this much.
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I have an ongoing dialogue with one of our transit planners because I'm pretty convinced the APC counts on my route are just plumb wrong.
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No kidding! Nothing better than the look on a municipal official's face when I explain that no, the number boarding doesn't match the number alighting, and that's just an apparently insoluble problem with the technology
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Gets 10000x worse when bus drivers forget to turn the damn thing on tho, and you get days or weeks reporting zero riders
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Just finished comparing average daily boards between this and last October and the discrepancies vary from 127% all the way to 32%
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About half of routes fell within the 80~100% range tho, so I'm assuming the rest is just natural variation
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