Quantifying Retail Agglomeration using Diverse Spatial Data.
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SUBMITTER: Piovani D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511147 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
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Quantifying Retail Agglomeration using Diverse Spatial Data.
Piovani Duccio D Zachariadis Vassilis V Batty Michael M
Scientific reports 20170714 1
Newly available data on the spatial distribution of retail activities in cities makes it possible to build models formalized at the level of the single retailer. Current models tackle consumer location choices at an aggregate level and the opportunity new data offers for modeling at the retail unit level lacks an appropriate theoretical framework. The model we present here helps to address these issues. Based on random utility theory, we have built it around the idea of quantifying the role of f ...[more]
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