Research Article Residential Location, Mobility, and Travel Time: A Pilot Study in a Small-Size Italian Metropolitan Area GiuseppeA.Malavenda, 1 GiuseppeMusolino , 2 CorradoRindone, 2 andAntoninoVitetta 2 1 VSD Group, 20142 Milano, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell’Energia Sostenibile, Universit` a degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Giuseppe Musolino; giuseppe.musolino@unirc.it Received 1 April 2020; Revised 10 June 2020; Accepted 29 June 2020; Published 17 August 2020 Academic Editor: Luigi Dell’Olio Copyright©2020GiuseppeA.Malavendaetal.isisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. is research concerns the topic of Land Use and Transport Interaction (LUTI) models. In particular, the patterns between residential households’ location and mobility choices are analyzed and simulated. e attributes that influence household residential location choices belong to four categories: socioeconomic and mobility attributes of households and/or of their components;landuse;real-estatemarket;transportsystem.epaperpresentstheresultsofapilotstudyonhouseholds’location andmobilitypatternsinthemetropolitanareaofReggioCalabria(SouthernItaly).epilotstudyisdividedintotwostages.Inthe firststage,asurveyallowedtocollectinformationandidentifyexistingpatternsaboutresidentialandmobilitychoicesofasample of households. In the second stage, a residential location model is proposed and some preliminary calibrations are presented in a prototypal way. e pilot study could be extended and improved in terms of spatial extension and sample dimension in order to allow a complete specification-calibration-validation process of the model. e model development can support the land use- transport planning process in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. 1. Introduction LandUseandTransportInteraction(LUTI)modelssimulate the two-way relationship between land use and transport systems in urban areas. e LU-to-Trelationship influences transport, in the component of travel demand. On the other side, the T-to-LU relationship plays a prominent role in the spatial organization of the area, influencing activity location and land prices [1–4]. is paper investigates some elements concerning the T-to-LU relationship. In particular, it focuses on causal mechanism that links the transport network (supply) per- formances and costs, such as travel times [5, 6], to the resi- dentiallocationandmobilitychoices(e.g.,destination,mode). is mechanism, which implies both long term decisions (i.e., change of residential location) and short-term decisions (e.g., modal shift), was studied in the literature with both empirical and modelling approaches (see, among others, [7–11]). As far as the modelling approach is concerned, the residential location models present in the literature can be grouped in two broad classes. e former is named gravi- tational-entropic,anditisbasedongravitationaltheoryand/ or on entropy maximization principle [12, 13]. e latter is named discrete choice, and it has random utility as theo- retical background. In the sphere of discrete choice models [14–16], the above described casual mechanism could be explained and simulated in terms of what extent travel cost (e.g., time), and other characteristics (attributes), maximizes the individual (dis)utility of a citizen (or other decision- maker unit) associated with residential location choices. e paper presents the results of a pilot study on households’ location and mobility patterns in the metro- politan area of Reggio Calabria (Southern Italy). e pilot study is finalized to address a number of issues [17] such as the target population, the structuring of the questionnaire and the survey execution, the mobility and residential Hindawi Journal of Advanced Transportation Volume 2020, Article ID 8827466, 11 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8827466