Discrete choice in commuter space: Small area analysis of diurnal population change in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region

摘要: Abstract Considerations of metropolitan commuting have often related to urban space as a continuum, and itself process. This approach has led escalating complexity in the measurement, modeling analysis commuting, with no commensurate results. The present study extends an alternative that considers commuter metropolis discrete set small areas. Each area throughout is nighttime location some households and, possible destination choice individuals within households, each subarea also daytime persons. subarea, therefore, may be thought attaining two values, corresponding its (e.g., noontime) midnight) populations. diurnal demographic shift subareas, binary events, or toggles, between populations, associated access metropolis. Diurnal offers structural simplicity aimed at estimating small-area populations across region might suitably precede complement conventional continuum considerations commuting. Using data for Tokyo Metropolitan Region, we identify average household size indicator small-areas, population density their indicator. potential estimation regions where are unavailable, underscored by clear tendency towards inverse relation these indicators shift.