Review of Research Papers and

Journal 2
Title: A methodological framework for the study
of residential location and travel-to-work mode
choice under central and suburban employment
destination patterns
• Study Area
• The analysis is carried out for the Greater
Dublin Area, a metropolitan region that is a
recent example of rapid employment
suburbanisation and residential sprawl in a
European context.
• Objectives
• The objective of this paper is to analyse the
simultaneous choice of residential location and travel-
to-work mode and to explore the effects of car travel
variables on re-location and travel-to-work mode
switching in the Dublin region.
• The aim of this paper is to contribute to the
methodological questions that arise from the study of
the simultaneous choice of residential location and
travel-to-work mode under central and non-central or
suburban employment patterns.
• Parameters
• mode switching and location switching
• Residential location; Travel mode choice;
• Employment suburbanisation
• The primary source of data for the analysis is
the Place of Work Sample of Anonymised
Records (POWSAR)
• Methodology
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
visualisations and network analysis are used
to generate a choice set based on the
definition of spatially aggregated alternatives.
• Conceptual framework introduced by Lerman
(1976)
• Results
• Results suggest that, given the current provision of
public transport in the GDA and keeping everything
else equal, transport policies aimed at reducing traffic
congestion by increasing car travel costs may have
larger effects on home re-location than expected if
individuals affected by these policies are working at
suburban employment locations. These results are
influenced by the fact that a number of land use
assumptions were made to simplify the simulation
exercise.
• Conclusion
• A potential application of the modelling
framework presented in this paper is the study of
the location and travel mode choice of a
hypothetical road user charging scheme for the
city of Dublin.
• Further extensions of the framework developed
here might look at a dynamic analysis, taking
account of the incremental impacts of new
public transport initiatives being gradually
introduced in the city.