Distribution Models for the Journey to Work

Bibliographic Data

ID4139655
AuthorsJ Broughton (Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berks RG11 6AU, England), J C Tanner (Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berks RG11 6AU, England), Julian Tanner (Transport Research Laboratory (United Kingdom))
Year1983
Volume15
Issue1
Pages37-53
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a150037
OpenAlexW4249356101
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited5

The paper describes a model, based on random utility theory, for simulating the choices of home and workplace made by individual workers in a region. Each worker chooses the home and job which maximises his utility (comprising rent, salary, cost of the journey to work, and a random personal element); rents and salaries are adjusted iteratively until the distribution of workers' choices of home and workplace matches the existing distribution of homes and workplaces. The model is applied first to several idealised urban geometries; it is then applied to 1971 Census data for the Manchester area, where the model reproduces satisfactorily the observed pattern of choices. Some of the effects of changed travel costs and of alternative policies for redistributing homes or jobs are then simulated

Census · Econometrics · Economic rent · Economics · Journey to work · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Salary · Sociology · Transport engineering · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing Market and Economics · Mathematics · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Mechanical Engineering

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