2017 Volume 12 Pages 1143-1162
Excluding Japan and Korea, there are numerous transportation development plans in the Asian and ASEAN countries. A characteristic of these countries is that there are great economic disparities among residents. Therefore, to realize sustainable urban or transportation progress, it is necessary to consider heterogeneous households when engaging in urban planning. The Computable Urban Economic (CUE) model is one of the major approaches used in Japan to estimate the effects of urban and transportation plans. However, the conventional CUE model does not take into consideration the effect of attributes such as income differences on location choices made by heterogeneous households. In this study, we developed a CUE model that takes heterogeneous households into consideration. This paper describes the results of our evaluation of the effectiveness of this newly developed CUE model using ex-post data from Kobe City.
