This article presents findings from a mixed-methods study on residential location and travel in the Reykjavik capital region, Iceland, drawing combination of tailor-made questionnaire survey in-depth qualitative interviews, including cross-sectional before–after analyses. A close to main city center contributes shorter distances lower shares car travel. The effect proximity is particularly stro...

BACKGROUND The residential care system is rapidly developing and plays an increasingly important role in care for the elderly in Beijing. A noticeable disparity in the accessibility to existing residential care facilities, however, is demonstrated in existing studies. The spatial optimization of residential care facility (RCF) locations is urgently needed to promote equal access to residential ...

The sensitivity of spatial analytic results to the way in which the areal units are defined is known as the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Although to date a general solution to the problem does not yet exist, it has been suggested in the literature that the effects of the problem may be controllable within specific application contexts. The current study pursues this line of inquiry and...