HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION MODULE OF OREGON2 MODEL

The Oregon2 model is a set of seven integrated modules that together simulate the land use-transport system in the state of Oregon. One of these modules, called the household allocation module, updates the economic and demographic attributes of each person and household in a synthetic population, including age, sex, occupation, work and student status, job holdings, household membership, primary- and secondary-home size and location, income, and car ownership. It uses an agent-based microsimulation with Monte Carlo selection to identify choice outcomes and state transitions for each person or household concerning each economic or demographic attribute considered, with selection probabilities determined by using logit models and sampling distributions that are functions of relevant alternative attributes and household or person characteristics. Initial parameter values were estimated with data from Oregon household travel surveys, the University of Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, U.S. census data, and other published statistics. Spatial locations are represented in a system of roughly 3,000 geographic zones covering the study area. Six housing types, eight occupation categories, and continuous quantities for housing size and income are also represented. Housing markets are represented by using a disequilibrium structure, in which prices in each zone are updated in response to the vacancy rate relative to a reference rate, moving toward but not necessarily reaching a market-clearing solution.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/1898-12
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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1898, Travel Demand and Land Use 2004.
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• Authors:
  • Hunt, John Douglas
  • Abraham, J E
  • Weidner, T J
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 98-107
• Monograph Title: TRAVEL DEMAND AND LAND USE 2004
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1898
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer models; Demographics; Economic factors; Housing; Land use; Logits; Microsimulation; Monte Carlo method; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Household allocation module
• Geographic Terms: Oregon
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00985928
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309094933
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 15 2005 12:00AM