Combining tacit knowledge elicitation with the SilverKnETs tool and random forests – The example of residential housing choices in Leipzig
- authored by
- Sebastian Scheuer, Dagmar Haase, Annegret Haase, Nadja Kabisch, Manuel Wolff, Nina Schwarz, Katrin Großmann
- Abstract
Residential choice behaviour is a complex process underpinned by both housing market restrictions and individual preferences, which are partly conscious and partly tacit knowledge. Due to several limitations, common survey methods cannot sufficiently tap into such tacit knowledge. Thus, this paper introduces an advanced knowledge elicitation process called SilverKnETs and combines it with data mining using random forests to elicit and operationalize this type of knowledge. For the application case of the city of Leipzig, Germany, our findings indicate that rent, location and type of housing form the three predictors strongly influencing the decision making in residential choices. Other explanatory variables appear to have a much lower influence. Random forests have proven to be a promising tool for the prediction of residential choices, although the design and scope of the study govern the explanatory power of these models.
- External Organisation(s)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin)
Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Volume
- 47
- Pages
- 400-416
- No. of pages
- 17
- ISSN
- 2399-8083
- Publication date
- 03.2020
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Architecture, Geography, Planning and Development, Urban Studies, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318777500 (Access:
Closed)
https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/cc3190e7-ce71-44ca-807e-b94f3bbb22b9 (Access: Open)
