In the Computable Urban Economic (CUE) Model, one land-use transport interaction (LUTI) model, improving the accuracy of the Location Choice Model is important to evaluate the effects of introducing urban transportation policies. However, our previous study revealed that the substantiation of...

We appraise the benefits of undergrounding utility lines in Japan and clarify the effects of road width and building height. Our results show that the willingness to pay (WTP) for undergrounding utility lines is lower as the road becomes wider and the buildings along the road become higher....

This paper calculates the willingness to pay (WTP) of residents for undergrounding utility lines with the hedonic approach. Land price functions are estimated for seven regions in Japan. Estimation is conducted for densely inhabited districts (DIDs), non-DIDs, and the whole region. The estimates...