caa a22 4500 445855215 CHVBK 20180317145426.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-011-9458-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-011-9458-x Cullinan John Department of Economics, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, Cairnes Building, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland aut A Spatial Microsimulation Approach to Estimating the Total Number and Economic Value of Site Visits in Travel Cost Modelling [Elektronische Daten] [John Cullinan] This paper presents a simulation-based modelling approach for simultaneously estimating the total number and aggregate value of recreation-related visits to a small-scale community forest in the West of Ireland. Spatially-referenced simulated individuals from a spatial microsimulation model for Ireland (SMILE) who reside within the geographic extent of the market for recreation at the forest are identified using GIS techniques. A travel cost model, adjusted for truncation and endogenous stratification, is estimated for a sample of visitors to the site and transferred across each individual in the simulated population. The SMILE model and GIS-based network analysis are used to derive the appropriate values for the explanatory variables in the transfer. Each simulated individual's latent demand for visits to the site is predicted and summed, in order to derive aggregate visits and amenity value estimates. The paper makes two principal contributions. First, it sets out a new approach for modelling the geographic extent of the market for recreation using survey data on reported travel distances and GIS techniques. Second, it develops a new simulation-based modelling approach for predicting total site visits at non-priced open-access recreation sites. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Total visits nationallicence Total economic value nationallicence Forest recreation nationallicence Spatial microsimulation nationallicence GIS-based network analysis nationallicence Travel cost model nationallicence Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/1(2011-09-01), 27-47 0924-6460 50:1<27 2011 50 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9458-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9458-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cullinan John Department of Economics, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, Cairnes Building, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/1(2011-09-01), 27-47 0924-6460 50:1<27 2011 50 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer