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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Residential Location Choice"”.
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Capturing Residential Preference Changes through Perception Detections of Rationally Inattentive Decision Makers
… dissertation focuses on the changes in aggregate residential trends and disaggregate perturbations in residential location choice behaviour. The empirical investigation uses the contexts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Two conceptual models are presented in the study, …
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Addressing endogeneity in residential location models
Some empirical residential location choice models have reported dwelling-unit price estimated parameters that are small, not statistically significant, or even positive. This would imply that households are non-sensitive to changes in dwelling unit prices or location taxes, which is not only …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
… regarding the effects of natural hazards on residential location choice, county migration rates, mental health status, and displacement. The results have practical implications for disaster risk management. Chapter 2 estimates household willingness-to-pay to live in lower hazard-risk areas. A …
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Endogeneity and Sampling of Alternatives in Spatial Choice Models
… are two key requirements of practical spatial choice models. The omission of attributes causes endogeneity when the unobserved variables are correlated with the measured variables, precluding the consistent estimation of the model parameters. The consistent estimation while sampling …
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Planning for land-use and transportation alternatives : towards household activity-based urban modeling for sustainable futures
… consider important in the household long-term choices. One key objective of the research is to improve the ability of the models to simulate the impacts of transportation innovations on household-level activity patterns and residential location choice in metro Lisbon. Since transportation …
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Understanding the Co-emergence of Urban Location Choice and Mobility Patterns: Empirical Studies and an Integrated Geospatial and Agent-based Model
… Conceptually, it is recognized that the location decisions of several urban actors including individuals, households, firms and public sector institutions, collectively determine the spatial distribution of land-use activities; the emergent land-use patterns, in turn, provide the …
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A new jointly estimated model of young adults’ decisions to leave their parental homes and to choose new residential locations
… remain/leave parental homes and the subsequent choices, in the case of leaving, to move to new residential destinations by linking them together. The focus is motivated by a long-lasting separation of demographic and sociological investigations on leaving parental homes on the one hand, and the …
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Examining the Dynamics of Urban Form, Flow, and Accessibility Using Geo-Computational Methods: A Case Study of Delhi
… of services, typologies of built-up forms, residential location choice, and built-up expansion. In this endeavour, the study aims to provide insights into pivotal questions within urban science. These include understanding why individuals travel longer distances to their workplaces and the …
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Disaggregate behavioural land use modelling: Integration of housing search, job search and households' dynamics
… is because households’ decision on housing relocation, which directly impacts housing consumption, is a compound decision. The motivation for changing living place comes from the dissatisfaction associated with the current occupied dwelling. Households then decide about their tenure status, …
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Planning sustainable cities: Coordinating accessibility improvements with housing policies
… relatively rapid changes in travel behavior and location choices. Several cities across the world are experimenting with ‘car-lite’ policies that aim to reduce auto ownership and use (and emissions) with the help of emerging mobilities, transit improvements, and/or urban design. Therefore, it …