  Because of improving accessibility, transport developments play an important
role in residence choice of renter households. In this paper, an agent-based
model is developed to investigate impacts of different transport developments
on residence choice of renter households in Tehran, the capital of Iran. In the
proposed model, renter households are considered as agents who make a
multi-objective decision and compete with each other to rent a preferred
residential zone. Then, three transport development scenarios including
construction a new highway, subway and bus rapid transit (BRT) line are
simulated and resulting changes in residence choice of agents are evaluated.
Results show that transport development scenarios significantly affect
residence choice behavior of different socio-economic categories of renter
households and lead to considerable changes in the residential demand,
composition of residents, mean income level and mean car ownership in their
vicinities.
