A novel excess commuting framework: Considering commuting efficiency and equity simultaneously

Yang Zhang, Yongping Zhang and Jiangping Zhou
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Yongping Zhang: University College London, UK
Jiangping Zhou: The University of Hong Kong, China

Environment and Planning B, 2021, vol. 48, issue 1, 151-168

Abstract: Excess commuting, which concerns the differences between the actual commute and the optimal (minimum) commute afforded by a given distribution of jobs and housing, i.e., urban form, has been extensively studied across disciplines. In the existing excess commuting framework, the optimal commute considers commuting efficiency but overlooks commuting equity, which is defined as the variation in commuting cost across workers before and after the optimisation. The framework also overlooks the variation in commuting frequency across workers for a period of interest, which also affects the overall commuting cost for the period. In this paper, we propose a novel excess commuting framework using a Greedy-Initialisation-based Genetic Algorithm, where the optimal commute accounts for commuting efficiency and equity and commuting-frequency variation simultaneously. We illustrate and calibrate the framework using one-month metro smart card data in Shanghai. Comparing with two other existing models, the Greedy-Initialisation-based Genetic Algorithm can generate a commuting pattern that balances commuting efficiency and commuting equity, which the existing commuting framework and corresponding algorithms cannot.

Keywords: Excess commuting; commuting frequency; equity; Genetic Algorithm; smart card data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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