This research makes use of a large sample (600,000) of individual telephone calls between local exchanges (cities, villages) within a U.S. region. Callers and callees are identified by their 4-digit SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code. The intersectoral and interlocational flows...

Understanding the determinants of interregional commodity flows is critical for both transportation infrastructure planning (highways, railroad tracks, river/port facilities) and regional development policies (location of activities, reducing regional disparities). Unfortunately, limited data...

The Mesopotamia region, within the boundaries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, is populated by different ethnic, national, and religious groups (Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites), which have long fought over the control of its fertile lands. Since the early 1970's, there has been an increase...

The allocation of water in a multi-country river system necessarily involves conflicting objectives, where increasing water benefits to one country may entail losses to other countries. This paper presents the formulation and application of a multi-objective linear programming model, where each...

This paper investigates intra-urban population and employment shifts over 1980-2000, using the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area as a case study. Population and employment are disaggregated by ethnicity (White, Black, Others) and industry (eleven sectors) to better capture different location...

This paper examines the impacts of different types of urban containment policies (UCPs) on the spatial structure of US metropolitan areas, with a particular focus on UCP tightness. These UCPs include state-mandated urban growth boundaries (UGBs), locally adopted urban growth boundaries and urban...