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Developing a shopping destination choice model for people living in Metropolitan Melbourne
Annitta Lin, Yifang Chen, Dale Wines, Neema Nassir
Australasian Transport Research Forum 2022 Proceedings | Australasian Transport Research Forum | Published : 2022
Abstract
One key factor to assist effective infrastructure and urban planning is to better understand the travel demands and the impact from various attributes on travellers’ decisions for destination. This study develops a destination choice model for shopping trips in Melbourne. The model predicts travellers’ choices for their shopping destinations from different areas in Melbourne based on demographic and trip related characteristics of individuals recorded in the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) between 2012 and 2016. One of the main challenges overcome in this research is the choice set formation. ASGS Statistical Area 1 (SA1) has been adopted as zones for categorisi..
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