Modeling Commuting Flows via Fixed Components
| Autor: | Kurt Jörnsten, Sahar Babri, Jan Ubøe, Inge Thorsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Residential location
Computer science 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Entropy (information theory) 021107 urban & regional planning Transportation 02 engineering and technology Statistical physics 050703 geography Changing job Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Transportation Science. 54:1225-1237 |
| ISSN: | 1526-5447 0041-1655 |
| DOI: | 10.1287/trsc.2019.0949 |
| Popis: | The basic, reasonable hypothesis underlying this paper is that many individuals are comfortable with their current combination of job and residential location and have no intention of changing job location or moving from where they live. This causes autocorrelation in the time series of commuting flows and provides a rationale for introducing fixed components in the trip distribution model. The fixed components are assumed to be constant in time and separated from the observed trip distribution. We next consider the residuals and fit the model by a constrained entropy-maximization procedure. Based on commuting data from Stockholm County in Sweden, the fixed component spatial interaction model is demonstrated to lead to a substantial improvement in goodness of fit compared with conventional spatial interaction models. The identification of fixed components leads to significantly lower estimates of the distance deterrence parameter, and fixed components are further argued to be potentially useful in a prediction perspective. The distance deterrence parameter in the fixed component model reflects the spatial interaction of workers who are actually considering changes in their residential and/or job location. We also compare alternative measures of spatial separation and discuss differences in commuting behaviour by gender. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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