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Title:

Modeling Type Choice Outcomes of Housing Development Projects in the City of Hamilton, Canada

Accession Number:

01155034

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper investigates the locational factors affecting the type of developed housing projects in the City of Hamilton, Canada in the period 1996 – 2001. The analysis relies on a micro-level land parcel geographic information system (GIS) dataset that was acquired from the City of Hamilton and TerraNet Incorporated. The parcel data were coupled with the Canadian census data and the CanMap Streetfiles data produced by Desktop Mapping Technology Incorporated (DMTI). Several variables were created and introduced in the specification of a number of Multinomial Logit (MNL) models. The models are specified and estimated to explain the housing-type choice behavior of land developers in the city. Four alternative type-choices facing developers are modeled: detached, semi-detached, row-link, and condominium housing. The specification of the four utilities includes locational factors depicting road infrastructure, residential amenities, and general site characteristics variables. The estimation results suggest that developers supply detached, row-link, and semi-detached houses at locations that exhibit suburban characteristics. However, semi-detached development is attracted to locations in suburban municipalities at sites that have more urbanized characteristics. In addition, the row-link housing type is attracted to suburban locations that enjoy very high levels of mobility and accessibility to amenities and road infrastructure. Finally, the condominium housing type is attracted to locations that exhibit the most urbanized features.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-1852

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Maoh, Hanna
Koronios, Manolis
Kanaroglou, Pavlos S

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Maps; References (20) ; Tables (5)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Types of dwellings

Geographic Terms:

Hamilton (Canada)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-1852

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 10:51AM