《Detransformation Bias in Nonlinear Trip Generation Models》
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- 作者
- 来源
- JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT,Vol.144,Issue3
- 语言
- 英文
- 关键字
- Bias; Predictive model; Trip generation; Land-use development; Development-level estimation; Transportation impact analyses; Traffic impact analyses; ESTIMATOR
- 作者单位
- [Wang, Liming] Portland State Univ, Toulan Sch Urban Studies & Planning, Portland, OR 97207 USA. [Currans, Kristina M.] Univ Arizona, Sch Landscape Architecture & Planning, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. Currans, KM (reprint author), Univ Arizona, Sch Landscape Architecture & Planning, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. E-Mail: curransk@email.arizona.edu
- 摘要
- In recent years, there have been substantial efforts from researchers and practitioners to improve site-level trip generation estimation methods to address some of the pitfalls of conventional approaches for applications such as traffic impact analyses. These new trip generation models often adopt sophisticated nonlinear model forms to utilize new information and incorporate new factors influencing trip generation. However, if sufficient caution is not taken in their application, these new predictive models may introduce severe bias. This paper focuses on a typical source of biases in the applications of such models arising from detransformation of predictions from models with a nonlinearly transformed dependent variable in the prediction process (for example, predicting from a semilog model). While such biases are well known and corrections have been proposed in other disciplines, they have not been adopted in site-level trip generation models to the authors' knowledge. The detransformation bias is described and demonstratedfocusing on log-transformed modelswith numeric simulations and empirical studies of trip generation models, before discussing their implications for trip generation applications and research.