Preferences, Utility, Choice, and Attractiveness

Arnaud Piombini (1) , Cécile Tannier (2) , Pierre Frankhauser (3) , Bernadette Nicot (3) , Dominique Ansel (4)

1 LIVE - Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
2 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
3 ThéMA - Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049)
4 PSYCHO - Laboratoire de Psychologie - UFC (UR 3188)

The purpose of this chapter is to specify what is meant by preferences, utility, choice, and attractiveness in the context of daily and residential mobility. These notions will be addressed from the angles of economics, geography, and psychology. We are interested in the process of choice leading to a decision and action with spatial consequences, primarily in terms of residential mobility even if factors pertaining to local daily mobility such as modal choice and route choice are evoked.

Mots clés: attractiveness; residential choice

Domaines: Géographie

Arnaud Piombini, Cécile Tannier, Pierre Frankhauser, Bernadette Nicot, Dominique Ansel. Preferences, Utility, Choice, and Attractiveness. Pierre Frankhauser et Dominique Ansel. Deciding Where to Live - An Interdisciplinary Approach of Residential Choice in Social Context, Springer, pp.227-254, 2016. ⟨hal-01380008⟩