Sensitivity to Distance and Choice of Destinations

P O'Sullivan and B Ralston
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P O'Sullivan: Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32303, USA
B Ralston: Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1978, vol. 10, issue 4, 365-370

Abstract: A model of destination choice is derived from verifiable assumptions about people's perception of distance. It is postulated that differences between destinations at varying distances are only perceptible when they exceed some tolerance level. Under reasonable assumptions on the distribution of this level among the population, this leads to a sigmoid market share or choice function. The model can be estimated from observations of actual trip making, with no a priori specification of the probability density of the tolerance level.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1068/a100365

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