GGR252H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Distance Decay, Land Values, Voronoi Diagram
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Techniques, all model have assumptions associated with. Equal travel opportunity, no barriers, physical terms. Even distribution population / characteristics, no variation of income, age, ethnic, family structure. Similar product store mix, market strategy, same stores same product same strategy. Everyone in that particular area will go to the stores. More stores, more people, more parking space. Only variation is size, it does not argue the differences of product and market strategy. Larger shopping centre have more people --> crowd. More parking space --> shuttle bus, end of the day, many people. Defining the population, income determined the amount of sales. Trader line cut the census tract line, so you have to find how much info you like to add in your total. Centroid method, identity a presume centre of a census tracts. Distance of straight lie but in real life there is not straight lines, there are barriers. Equal travel opportunity, income, old people tend to shop less.
