Core and peripheral contrasts in journey-to-work trip length can be interpreted as imputing the relative value of origin and destination accessibility (yielding theoretical proxies for rent and wages). Because the main variables are shown to be critically dependent on spatial structure, they may be interpreted as showing the shadow prices due to comparative location. There is also a unifying co...

In this paper, we characterise tourists most likely to visit a coastal destination by high-speed rail (HSR). Our data came from a survey conducted among HSR passengers during 2014's high season (July and August) at Spain's Camp de Tarragona and Alicante Stations, each of which is near a mass tourism destination on the Mediterranean coast: the Costa Daurada and the Costa Blanca, respectively. We...

The eBird database is the product of a huge citizen science project at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Members report their birding excursions both their destinations and the numbers and types of birds they observe on each trip. Based on home address information, we calculate travel costs for each birder for trips to alternative birding hotspots. We focus on the Paci c Northwe...

This paper studies the properties and performance of a new measure of accessibility, called the Activity-Based Accessibility (ABA) measure, and compares it to traditional measures of accessibility, including isochrone, gravity and utility-based measures. The novel aspect of the ABA is that it measures accessibility to all activities in which an individual engages and incorporates constraints su...

The ridesharing problem is to share personal vehicles by individuals (participants) with similar itineraries. A trip in the ridesharing problem is a participant and his/her itinerary. To realize a trip is to deliver the participant to his/her destination by a vehicle satisfying the itinerary requirement. In this thesis, we focus on two optimization goals: minimize the number of vehicles and min...

In this paper, we use New York City taxi trip data from 2013 and attempt to predict congestion at specific locations in the city at a given time. This paper contains the following three contributions: 1) A method for organizing origin-destination trip data and representing it as a graph; 2) Metrics that that represent congestion at a given location, including whether that location causes (injec...

A Systematic Comparison of First-Time and Repeat Visitors via a Two-Phase Online Survey Abstract: Tourism researchers report differences between first-time and repeat visitors in terms of their demographics, tripographics, destination perception, perceived value, and travel motivations. The majority of previous studies focus on comparing only one or a couple of these dimensions, with fragmented...

Taking a holiday trip is common couple-based leisure activity in which both partners tend to be actively involved. This paper studies the intra-household bargaining for choice of vacation destination within couples. We conduct discrete experiment we elicit individual and couple preferences different hypothetical travel portfolios two-stage experimental design. The choices are modelled as functi...

Transportation modes, including Walking and other private modes as well as transit services, provide travel options to the individual trip-maker along a transportation network. On a single basis, any modal option is featured here in terms of travel time to destination conditionally to immediate availability, expected wait time in the adverse case and the probability of availability. The paper i...