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Title: An alternative measure of household structure and stage in life cycle for transport modeling
Accession Number: 01388178
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: This paper introduces a new concept in describing the structure of households. The average age of the household, and its relationship to the age of the individual, is shown to have some interesting and consistent properties which provide greater insight into the structure of households, particularly as an individual grows older. The relationships between age of the individual and average age and size of the household are shown to provide extra information to that contained in more conventional descriptive measures of household structure. In addition, using a CHAID-based model of trip generation, the average age of the household, and its relationship to the age of the individual, is shown to be a more significant predictor of daily trip rates than some more conventional measures of household structure. The paper shows that, despite its computational simplicity, the new variable has promise in describing household structure and changes in life cycle, and that further investigation of the properties of the variable should be undertaken.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01388576
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Richardson, A JPagination: 17p
Publication Date: 2006
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States TRT Terms: ATRI Terms: Subject Areas: Society
Source Agency: ARRB Melbourne, Victoria Australia Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Aug 23 2012 12:39AM
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