Abstract How do university students evaluate prospective jobs in different cities after graduation? While the literature has identified drivers of graduate migration, research yet to account for role individual social and political attitudes shaping destination preferences. Using a conjoint survey experiment, this paper introduces concept place‐consonant migration describe desire proximity like...

Hailed for their pragmatism, innovativeness and progressive views, cities networks seem to bring a fresh air in current migration debates. Our intent, this special issue, is address the scale significance of trend by contributing greater understanding networking activities. Revisiting conceptual framework used literature date, it addresses diverse forms networks, drivers, internal operation fun...

Khuzestan province and other western provinces of the country have been mostly affected by the impacts of the imposed war of Iraq against Iran and due to this impact have experienced special changes. As one of these changes, we could mention the phenomenon of the migration. These areas have experienced different forms of migrations such as exterior, interior, return migration and even the accep...

introduction census data of iran show that about 68.5% (1956) to 29% (2011) of rural population has decreased over the past half-century. rural population has rapidly declined over the last half century and is influenced by several factors, one of which is rural- urban migration. although the percentage of rural to urban migration (20%) and urban to rural one (17%) from 1996 to 2006 show less d...

Road traffic volumes in intercity roads are generally estimated by probability functions, statistical techniques or meta-heuristic approaches such as artificial neural networks. As the road traffic volumes depend on input variables and mainly road geometrical design, weather conditions, day or night time, weekend or national holidays and so on, these are also estimated by pattern recognition te...

In recent years, one observes a surge in the number of city networks formed to address welcoming and integration immigrant populations. Drawing on database over sixty networks, paper provides global overview their different types, scales activities. Exploring underlying factors explaining this worldwide expansion, it highlights two sets congruent dynamics. This phenomenon has been elicited by l...