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A behavioral housing search model: Two-stage hazard-based and multinomial logit approach to choice-set formation and location selection

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  • Rashidi, Taha Hossein
  • Auld, Joshua
  • Mohammadian, Abolfazl (Kouros)

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Residential location search has become an important topic to both practitioners and researchers as more detailed and disaggregate land-use and transportation demand models are developed which require information on individual household location decisions. The housing search process starts with an alternative formation and screening stage. At this level households evaluate all potential alternatives based on their lifestyle, preferences, and utilities to form a manageable choice set with a limited number of plausible alternatives. Then the final residential location is selected among these alternatives. This two-stage decision making process can be used for both aggregate zone-level selection as well as searching disaggregate parcel or building-based housing markets for potential dwellings. In this paper a zonal level household housing search model is developed. Initially, a household specific choice set is drawn from the entire possible alternatives in the area based on the average household work distance to each alternative. Following the choice set formation step, a discrete choice model is utilized for modeling the final residential zone selection of the household. A hazard-based model is used for the choice set formation module while the final choice selection is modeled using a multinomial logit formulation with a deterministic sample correction factor. The approach presented in the paper provides a remedy for the large choice set problem typically faced in housing search models.

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  • Rashidi, Taha Hossein & Auld, Joshua & Mohammadian, Abolfazl (Kouros), 2012. "A behavioral housing search model: Two-stage hazard-based and multinomial logit approach to choice-set formation and location selection," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 46(7), pages 1097-1107.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transa:v:46:y:2012:i:7:p:1097-1107
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.01.007
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