The charging loads of electric vehicles (EVs) at residential premises are controlled through a tariff system based on fixed timing. conventional presents the herding issue, such as with many connected EVs, all them directed to charge during same off-peak period, which results in overloading power grid and high costs. Besides, random nature EV users restricts from following times. Consequently, ...

The Schelling model describing segregation between two groups of residential agents, reflects the most abstract, basic view of noneconomic forces motivating residential migrations: be close to people of ‘‘your own’’ kind. The model assumes that residential agents, located in neighborhoods where the fraction of ‘‘friends’’ is less than a predefined threshold value F, try to relocate to neighborh...

The main objective of this paper is to analyse residential demand by traffic destination, using a translogarithmic indirect utility function. We focus on five traffic directions, in order to construct a model adapted to evaluate the characteristics of telecommunications demand in a competitive market. The resulting price elasticities express high reactivity to own price changes for the main tra...

Due to data and methodology constraints, there is a lack of good quality-controlled residential price indices publicly available in China. New home sales account for quite a large share of total home sales in Chinese cities (87% in 2010). As a result, the standard repeat sales approach cannot be employed, as a new housing units only appears once on the market. The hedonic method may be more sui...

-The design of wholesale electricity markets through deregulation has focused almost exclusively on the development of competitive supply (generation). The demand side of the market has been virtually ignored. Mostly, this is due to the assumption that electricity demand is almost completely inelastic. As a result, deregulated wholesale markets universally fail to pass price signals down to the...

In real estate appraisal, especially of residential buildings, one the primary evaluation parameters is property’s usable area. When determining property price, Polish appraisers use data from comparable transactions included in Real Estate Price Register (REPR), which highly incomplete, regarding properties’ areas. This incompleteness renders identification challenging and may lead to incorrec...

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