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

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1097-1107

  Rashidi, Taha Hossein ^a   Auld, Joshua ^b   Mohammadian, Abolfazl Kouros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice set formation; Hazard models; Housing search; Multinomial logit; Sampling correction

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HAZARDS; LAND USE; LOCATION;

CHOICE SET FORMATIONS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; HAZARD MODELS; LOCATION SELECTION; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; RESIDENTIAL LOCATIONS; TRANSPORTATION DEMAND;

HOUSING;

DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; HAZARD; HOUSING MARKET; LAND USE; LOCATION DECISION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SAMPLING; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84862123861     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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