Global Urban Typology Discovery with a Latent Class Choice Model

Urban typologies are important for analyzing the impact of mobility policies across different city types. To date, extant work conducted on these have either relied on old data or used empirical methods. In this paper, the authors use the latest available data from 330 cities along with a unique survey dataset with global coverage. The authors apply an exploratory approach to discover 7 urban typologies, which are confirmed by a novel latent class choice model the authors develop. The authors also show how the latent class choice model can be used to provide further insight into the classification.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Global Urban Typology Discovery with Confirmatory Latent Class Choice Model.
• Authors:
  • Han, Yafei
  • Oke, Jimi
  • Hua, Sean
  • Zhou, Jin
  • Azevedo, Carlos Lima
  • Zegras, Christopher
  • Ferreira, Joseph
  • Ben-Akiva, Moshe
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Choice models; Cities; Classification; Mobility; Travel behavior
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01659766
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-06681
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 12 2018 9:59AM