This paper examines the initial location choice of legal employment-based immigrants to the United States using Immigration and Naturalization Service data on individual immigrants, as well as economic, demographic, and social data to characterize the 298 metropolitan areas we define as the...

A growing literature has found a positive association between human capital and long-run employment growth across cities. These studies have increased interest in understanding the location choices of university degree-holders, a group often used as a proxy measure of human capital. Based on...

Metropolitan scale studies of transport-based air pollution have emphasized inputs from the passenger vehicle fleet, with minimal attention given to the role of urban goods movement. Furthermore, little is known about the spatial distribution of transport related emissions. This study uses an...

The development of micro level models of urban processes has partially been facilitated by increased availability of detailed activity/travel survey data. Managing and exploring these data can be resource intensive and time consuming. Researchers and municipal planning organizations increasingly...

<title>Abstract</title> The ‘human activity approach’ to the study of travel behaviour represents a synthesis of concepts and analytic approaches partially drawn from several subdisciplines concerned with human spatial behaviour. Underlying the approach is the widely accepted view that travel demand...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the performance and capabilities of the aggregated spatial choice model with empirical data. The application is to a problem of Canadian interregional migration in the 1990-91 time period. The strength of the aggregated model is its ability to capture...

The deregulation of transportation industries has been an ongoing part of the trend towards less government involvement in the marketplace. This paper deals with two important questions related to the impact of the reform of economic regulations in the Ontario for-hire trucking industry (Truck...

Cities and metropolitan regions face several challenges including urban sprawl, auto dependence and congestion, and related environmental and human health effects. Examining the spatial characteristics of daily household activity-travel behavior holds important implications for understanding and...