16: MTC MNL Mode Choice, Cost by Income

16: MTC MNL Mode Choice, Cost by Income

Another approach to the inclusion of trip maker or context characteristics is through interactions with mode attributes. The most common example of this approach is to take account of the expectation that low-income travelers will be more sensitive to travel cost than high-income travelers by using cost divided by income in place of cost as an explanatory variable. Such a specification implies that the importance of cost in mode choice diminishes with increasing household income.

Model 16 drops travel cost to include travel cost divided by income. (pp. 125)

d = larch.examples.MTC()
m = larch.Model(dataservice=d)
from larch.roles import P, X
for a in [2,3]:
        m.utility_co[a] = P("hhinc#2,3") * X("hhinc")

for a in [4,5,6]:
        m.utility_co[a] = P("hhinc#{}".format(a)) * X("hhinc")

for a,name in m.dataservice.alternative_pairs[1:]:
        m.utility_co[a] += (
                + P("ASC_"+name)
                + P("vehbywrk_"+name) * X("vehbywrk")
                + P("wkcbd_"+name) * X("wkccbd + wknccbd")
                + P("wkempden_"+name) * X("wkempden")
                )
m.utility_ca= (
        + P("nonmotorized_time") * X("(altnum > 4) * tottime")
        + P("motorized_time") * X("(altnum <= 4) * ivtt")
        + (P("motorized_time") + (P("motorized_ovtbydist")/X("dist"))) * X("(altnum <= 4) * ovtt")
        + P("costbyinc") * X("totcost/hhinc")
        )
m.availability_var = '_avail_'
m.choice_ca_var = '_choice_'
m.ordering = (
        ("LOS", ".*cost.*", ".*time.*", ".*dist.*", ),
        ("Income", "hhinc.*", ),
        ("Ownership", "vehbywrk.*", ),
        ("Zonal", "wkcbd.*", "wkempden.*", ),
        ("ASCs", "ASC.*", ),
)
>>> m.load_data()
>>> m.maximize_loglike()
┣ ...Optimization terminated successfully...
>>> m.calculate_parameter_covariance()
>>> m.loglike()
-3442.334...

>>> print(m.pfo()[['value','std_err','t_stat','robust_std_err','robust_t_stat']])
                                    value  std_err   t_stat  robust_std_err  robust_t_stat
Category  Parameter
LOS       costbyinc           -5.1774e-02   0.0107  -4.8449          0.0137        -3.7833
          motorized_time      -2.0158e-02   0.0038  -5.2843          0.0039        -5.1676
          nonmotorized_time   -4.5439e-02   0.0058  -7.8773          0.0058        -7.8893
          motorized_ovtbydist -1.3272e-01   0.0196  -6.7604          0.0241        -5.5145
Income    hhinc#2,3            3.6919e-05   0.0014   0.0262          0.0015         0.0251
          hhinc#4             -5.3356e-03   0.0020  -2.6053          0.0021        -2.5695
          hhinc#5             -8.6720e-03   0.0052  -1.6757          0.0060        -1.4478
          hhinc#6             -6.0172e-03   0.0032  -1.8935          0.0035        -1.7372
Ownership vehbywrk_BIKE       -7.0406e-01   0.2586  -2.7228          0.3101        -2.2704
          vehbywrk_SR2        -3.8162e-01   0.0766  -4.9815          0.0891        -4.2833
          vehbywrk_SR3        -1.3880e-01   0.1091  -1.2724          0.1092        -1.2709
          vehbywrk_TRANSIT    -9.3751e-01   0.1185  -7.9146          0.1377        -6.8105
          vehbywrk_WALK       -7.2385e-01   0.1696  -4.2686          0.2034        -3.5591
Zonal     wkcbd_BIKE           4.8632e-01   0.3612   1.3465          0.3669         1.3254
          wkcbd_SR2            2.4714e-01   0.1240   1.9928          0.1246         1.9842
          wkcbd_SR3            1.0944e+00   0.1910   5.7287          0.1878         5.8266
          wkcbd_TRANSIT        1.3056e+00   0.1657   7.8804          0.1584         8.2415
          wkcbd_WALK           9.7248e-02   0.2523   0.3855          0.2591         0.3753
          wkempden_BIKE        1.9225e-03   0.0012   1.5805          0.0012         1.6338
          wkempden_SR2         1.5964e-03   0.0004   4.0507          0.0004         3.8347
          wkempden_SR3         2.2038e-03   0.0005   4.8421          0.0005         4.7976
          wkempden_TRANSIT     3.1317e-03   0.0004   8.6150          0.0004         8.1105
          wkempden_WALK        2.8814e-03   0.0007   3.8776          0.0007         4.0515
ASCs      ASC_BIKE            -1.6218e+00   0.4289  -3.7817          0.4879        -3.3239
          ASC_SR2             -1.7298e+00   0.1386 -12.4779          0.1498       -11.5484
          ASC_SR3             -3.6563e+00   0.2061 -17.7392          0.2014       -18.1497
          ASC_TRANSIT         -6.9170e-01   0.2494  -2.7729          0.2695        -2.5664
          ASC_WALK             7.5215e-02   0.3491   0.2154          0.3502         0.2148