Application of Hazard Based Model for Housing Location Based on Travel Distance to Work

Residential location choice modeling is one of the areas in transportation planning that attempts to examine households location search behavior incorporating their trade-offs between housing quality, prices or rents, distance to work and other key factors. This brings up the need to come up with methods to logically allocate credible choice alternativesfor individuals.This article attempts to provide a detailed study of this practice to develop a modeling frameworkthat can replicate the choice process. In order to show the potential of the method, a decision criterion—maximumdistance to work—is considered the potential attribute that the household evaluates for feasible housing alternatives. It is postulated that alternatives will only be included in the choice set if the maximum work distancesatisfies thehousehold thresholds. This research explores the application of proportional hazard models in the housing searchprocess. Some of the specifications of hazard-based models that are typically used on temporal data are examined onwork distance. A log-logistic function is used for hazard base-line. The study has used the household travel behaviorsurvey conducted by Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP). Furthermore, several extensive land use and transportation related data sources are incorporated to complement the scope of the modeling results.

Keywords:

Residential location , spatial structure , hazard-based models , commute distance