The influence of transport on the residential location choice behaviour of households: Introduction and determination of a search area for moving households. Integrated land use and transport models (LUTI-models) try to model the two-relationship between transport and spatial development. An important part of these models is the residential location choice behaviour of households. The modelling of this behaviour is mostly done by applying the Logit theory, or a variation. This technique is very suitable for predicting choices with little alternatives, but it is less suitable for simulating the choice for a dwelling. For there are too much alternatives (dwellings) available, through which make the estimation of the model more difficult. Moreover, according to the Logit theory all available options get a chance of being chosen, which in this case leads to a great amount of small chances for all available dwellings. From the perspective of the real residential migration process, it is not entirely correct either to take into account all alternatives. Analyses of the National Housing Survey (in Dutch: Woningbehoefte Onderzoek (WBO)) show that there exists a search area in which a person chooses a dwelling. This area is a derivative of the social ties one has with the current living environment and the lack of information on other dwellings that are further away. The number of migrations shows a significant decline with the migration distance. This so called migration resistance varies strongly per migration motivation. The paper shows that a residential search area can be defined through combining the last residential location, the (current) working place and the migration motivation. The search area plays a vital part in modelling the choice process, in which for each motivation a distinction must be made between migration inside and outside of the search area. WBO analyses and illustrations make clear that the proposed search area truly produces a sound reduction of the possible residential locations and that a large amount of migrations takes place within this area. (Author/publisher)
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