Temporal Variation in Consumer Spatial Behavior in Shopping Streets
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 132, Issue 3
Abstract
Modeling consumer behavior in shopping streets to support urban planning decisions has a long tradition in a variety of disciplines. Surprisingly, temporal variation in such a shopping process has received only scant attention in these models. This paper therefore proposes a multinomial logit model, in which real time is part of the utility function, implying that temporal variation in consumer preference structures can be analyzed. A grid-based estimation procedure is developed to estimate the unknown temporal variability from consumer choice data. The goodness-of-fit of the estimated model is very satisfactory and most parameters are statistically significant and in anticipated directions. Time-varying effects on consumer behavior are shown to be fairly strong. Some factors are weakened over time while others are strengthened. This finding suggests the existence of systematic variations in consumer behavior, which could enable retailers, urban planners, and real estate developers to evaluate their plans or to make decisions in more specific spatio-temporal contexts.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank Professor Yanwei Chai, Guilan Weng, Yanran Shang, Changxia Li, and Tao Lin of the Peking University for their warm cooperation during the survey.
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Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 132 • Issue 3 • September 2006
Pages: 166 - 171
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Mar 29, 2005
Accepted: Aug 31, 2005
Published online: Sep 1, 2006
Published in print: Sep 2006
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