Dominance variables and intervening opportunities for choice set generation

Models adopted in the literature to represent spatial choices are generally rather elementary and result in the application of random utility theory to the choice among hundreds of alternatives. The attributes are usually related to spatial attractiveness and to generalised travel cost without any reference to perception/availability attributes.The objective of this paper is twofold: to use perception/availability variables named dominance variables for modelling spatial choices to have a better predictive model and to use dominance criteria as weights for the sampling probabilities to show how weighted sampling of alternatives provide parameters estimates “closer” to the full choice set.

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