Development of Hedonic Office Rent Indices

Development of Hedonic Office Rent Indices
Author: Simon Kempf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658111704

Simon Kempf has developed hedonic (quality-adjusted) office rent indices for German metropolitan areas. His study explores new territory as it constructs, for the first time, such indices for Germany. The author thereby has taken into account the different qualities of the underlying lease contracts regarding location factors, lease factors, building factors, equipment and layout factors of the office rental unit – using more than 22,005 office lease contracts stored in the Rental Databank of IPD GmbH in Wiesbaden. This hedonic index construction methodology is well known among real estate researchers and statisticians, but it has been mainly used in the residential sector. As a second novelty the multiple imputation method in the statistical analysis to solve the problem of missing data is employed. Quality-adjusted office rent indices serve as market and economic indicators as well as a bench-marking instrument.

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research
Author: James G. Strathman
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008
Genre: Intelligent transportation systems
ISBN: 0309099420

TRB¿s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 126: Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research: A Practitioner¿s Guidebook examines intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Transit ITS technologies currently in use, explores their potential to provide market research data, and presents methods for collecting and analyzing these data. The guidebook also highlights three case studies that illustrate how ITS data have been used to improve market research practices.