Non-Residential Development Project Location Choice Model (NRDPLCM)

Objective

The Non-Residential Development Project Location Choice Model (NRDPLCM) predicts the location choices of real estate developers to build new non-residential real estate development projects.

Algorithm

Development projects to be located by this model are generated by the DevelopmentProjectTransitionModel. The Residential and Non-Residential projects are handled by parallel models that are virtually identical except for their focus on residential/non-residential buildings.

Configuration

OPUS path to model code

urbansim_zone.models.development_project_location_choice_model

Model Parameters

The configuration of the NRDPLCM in the zone model system is summarized in the following table:

Element	Setting
Agent	Development project (assumes there is an unobserved developer for each project to be located)
Dataset	Buildings
Dependent Variable	Location of each new development project: building_id (zone and building_type)
Model Type	Multinomial Logit Model
Estimation Method	Maximum Likelihood
Submodels	Building Type - separate models are specified for each type of residential building
Independent Variables	Attributes of buildings: Price, density, accessibility, zonal composition of households and employment

Data

The following tables are used by the Residential and Non-Residential Development Project Location Choice Models (RDPLCM and NRDPLCM) in the zone-based version of UrbanSim.

Table Name	Brief Description
building_sqft_per_job	Non-residential sqft used by each job
target_vacancies	Structural or target vacancies - trigger development when vacancies fall below this

-- PaulWaddell - 07 Dec 2009