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For the past several years I have been attempting to describe and explain residential mobility and residential search behavior. My objective in this paper is to investigate a series of simple distance-decay models which are designed to predict where a household will look for a new residence within an urban area. The proposed models, although couched in residential search terms, are potentially applicable to other human activities involving the selection of an alternative from a set of spatially distributed possibilities.
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Huff, J.O. (1984). Distance-Decay Models of Residential Search. In: Gaile, G.L., Willmott, C.J. (eds) Spatial Statistics and Models. Theory and Decision Library, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3048-8_19
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