Informal settlements, sometimes called slums, are sites of significant environmental risk in developing cities. Despite its challenges, residents prefer to live informal settlements rather than planned allocated plots. This paper assesses the determinants households’ residential location decision an settlement Port Harcourt order gain understanding on what makes individuals consider a particula...

Land-use regression (LUR) models are increasingly used to estimate exposure to air pollution in urban areas. An appropriate monitoring network is an important component in the development of a robust LUR model. In this study concentrations of NO2 were simulated by a dispersion model at ‘virtual’ monitoring sites in 54 network designs of varying numbers and types of site, using a 25 km2 area in ...

The ability of agent-based models (ABMs) to represent heterogeneity in the characteristics and behaviors of actors enables analyses about the implications of this heterogeneity for system behavior. The importance of heterogeneity in the specification of ABMs, however, creates new demands for empirical support. An earlier analysis of a survey of residential preferences within southeastern Michig...

The Ipswich watershed in northeastern Massachusetts, USA, is experiencing important land-use changes, which are contributing to severe environmental problems such as eutrophication, ground water depletion and loss of wildlife. The objective of this paper is to model deforestation between 1971, 1985 and 1991 in the watershed of the Ipswich River in Massachusetts, USA, where most of the forest lo...

0965-8564/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tra.2012.01.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 647 638 5450. E-mail addresses: taha.hosseinrashidi@utoronto. 1 Tel.: +1 312 996 0962; fax: +1 312 996 2426. 2 Tel.: +1 312 996 9840; fax: +1 312 996 2426. Residential location search has become an important topic to both practitioners and researchers as more detailed and disaggregate l...

OBJECTIVES To explore determinants of change in pediatrician supply in Japan, and examine impacts of a 2004 reform of postgraduate medical education on pediatricians' practice location choice. METHODS Data were compiled from secondary data sources. The dependent variable was the change in the number of pediatricians at the municipality ("secondary tier of medical care" [STM]) level. To analyz...

Abstract. The most common approach to assessing natural hazard risk is investigating the willingness pay in presence or absence of such risk. In this work, we propose a new, machine-learning-based, indirect problem, i.e. through residential-choice modelling. Especially urban environments, exposure and vulnerability are highly dynamic components, both being shaped by complex continuous reorganiz...

The integrated modeling of land use and transportation choices involves analyzing a continuum of choices that characterize people’s lifestyles across temporal scales. This includes long-term choices such as residential and work location choices that affect land-use, medium-term choices such as vehicle ownership, and short-term choices such as travel mode choice that affect travel demand. Prior ...