Social Networks and ICT in Location Choice

摘要

The report looks into how job search methods can impact home and work location patterns at the aggregate level. It also investigates the role job search methods and outcomes play in subsequent relocation and residential location decisions at the individual level. A third element that we will look at is the relationship between home, work and activity spaces for social meetings. The roles of social networks are explored in work-residential location choice, and choices of meeting locations. In this report we will explore co-location patterns at home and work and its implication for traditional travel demand models. We will also explore whether the search process has impacts on the distance travelled because of how and what information is gathered and presented to the searcher, and whether secondary/subsequent residential relocation is infuenced by the process. For aggregate trip distribution models such as the gravity model co-location due to home/work place information exchange that leads to work/home selections would imply an OD matching that goes beyond origin, destination characteristics, impedance and population segmentation based on demographic characteristics alone.