Workplace Location Choice Model based on Deep Neural Network
This work addresses the challenge of accurately modeling individual workplace choices for urban planning or transportation analysis, but it is incremental as it compares existing methods without introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackled the problem of modeling workplace location decisions by proposing a deep neural network (DNN) as an alternative to traditional discrete choice models (DCMs), finding that DNNs outperform DCMs in some aspects but DCMs are better for assessing individual attributes and shorter distances.
Discrete choice models (DCMs) have long been used to analyze workplace location decisions, but they face challenges in accurately mirroring individual decision-making processes. This paper presents a deep neural network (DNN) method for modeling workplace location choices, which aims to better understand complex decision patterns and provides better results than traditional discrete choice models (DCMs). The study demonstrates that DNNs show significant potential as a robust alternative to DCMs in this domain. While both models effectively replicate the impact of job opportunities on workplace location choices, the DNN outperforms the DCM in certain aspects. However, the DCM better aligns with data when assessing the influence of individual attributes on workplace distance. Notably, DCMs excel at shorter distances, while DNNs perform comparably to both data and DCMs for longer distances. These findings underscore the importance of selecting the appropriate model based on specific application requirements in workplace location choice analysis.