Changing the design aspects of urban form is a positive approach to improving transportation. Land use and urban design strategies have been proposed to not only to bring about changes in travel behavior but as a way of providing a better quality of life to the residents. While the research on the relationship between urban form and travel behavior has been pretty extensive, there is a clear ga...

Transportation is a key to the economy and social welfare; it makes mobility more accessible and enhances the social and economic interactions. On the other hand, the increase of urban population, pollution and other negative impacts has directly affected the existing transportation system in Dar es Salaam City Tanzania. As the transportation challenges cannot be overcome simultaneously due to ...

This thesis extends the previous literature on urban subcenter formation by introducing congestion cost of transportation. A new model is constructed to analyze the efficiency of private decision about firm decentralization with the presence of unpriced transportation congestion. The model features a linear city with provision of transportation infrastructure oriented toward carrying workers to...

We present a simple simulation of road growing dynamics that can generate global features as belt-ways and star patterns observed in urban transportation infrastructure. The road growing dynamics consist of two steps: Identifying the maximum transportation potential bewteen two locations within the city, followed by the generation of the least expensive road between these two locations. The sim...

The purpose of this study was to describe the presence and quality of active transportation safety features in Canadian school environments that relate to pedestrian and bicycle safety. Variations in these features and associated traffic concerns as perceived by school administrators were examined by geographic status and school type. The study was based on schools that participated in 2009/201...

Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public transport system in the city, an ...

We consider the dynamics between population and spatial distribution networks for the 200 largest urban agglomerations. Population dynamics are considered from 1950 to 2010 and distribution networks are analyzed in terms of vehicular transportation infrastructure. We observe that the growth of large urban agglomerations, in terms of population density, has slowed down in the second half of the ...