The Second Transportation Student Research Symposium
Abstract Detail
| Name | School | Title of presentation |
| Jieping Li | BU | Lifestyle Preferences in Residential Location Choice Models |
| The objective of this research is to explore the role that lifestyle preferences play in spatial choice and travel behavior. Latent class choice models are employed in which the underlying latent lifestyle characteristics are inferred from observed household residential location choices. The results indicate three latent lifestyle segmentations: those with a suburban orientation, those with a transit orientation, and those with an urban orientation. Furthermore, the preference for these lifestyles can be explained by lifecycle characteristics of the household: affluent and established families with young children are more likely to be suburban-oriented; less affluent families and non-families are more likely to be transit-orientated; and older and professional non-families are more likely to be urban-oriented. These results provide a behavioral model structure for understanding self-selection in spatial choice and travel behavior. The contribution of the research is the use of latent class choice model to explain lifestyle preferences and assess location and travel behavior simultaneously, rather than in a two-stage process. |
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