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The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors.
List of contents
Preface.- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview.- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches.- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model.- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in TIGRIS XL.- 5 Simulating the Spatial Distribution of Employment in Large Cities: with Applications to Greater London.- 6 Complex Urban Systems Integration: The LEAM Experiences in Coupling Economic, Land Use, and Transportation Models in Chicago, IL.- 7 Employment Location Modelling Within an Integrated Land Use and Transport Framework: Taking Cue from Policy Perspectives.- 8 Integrating SCGE and I-O in Multiregional Modelling.- 9 Interjurisdictional Competition and Land Development: A Micro-Level Analysis.- Part II: Micro-Scale Approaches.- 10 Occupation, Education and Social Inequalities: a Case Study Linking Survey Data Sources to an Urban Microsimulation Analysis.- 11 Firm location choice vs. job location choice in microscopic simulation models.- 12 Modelling Firm Failure: Towards Building a Firmographic Microsimulation Model.- 13 Choice set formation in microscopic firm location models.- 14 Employment Location Models: Conclusions.
About the author
Francesca Pagliara is Assistant Professor at the Department of Transportation Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II.
Michiel de Bok works as a senior analyst at Significance. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the field of transportation and planning.
David Simmonds is a Director of David Simmonds Consultancy Ltd, Cambridge, England.
Professor Sir Alan Wilson FBA FRS, best known for his pioneering work on spatial interaction methods and dynamical systems theory in transportation and urban modelling, has joined the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) as Professor of Urban & Regional Systems.
Summary
The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors.
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From the book reviews:
“This book constitutes a highly welcome addition to the literature concerned with the modeling of the spatial distribution of employment. … The volume also stands out in the ways in which the various chapters combine detailed descriptions of particular models with their applications to specific cities or regions, thus making the book an interesting read for those with a focus on the design of comprehensive employment location models as well as those rather concerned with their applications in different contexts.” (Kristin Kronenberg, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 54 (2), March, 2014)
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From the book reviews:
"This book constitutes a highly welcome addition to the literature concerned with the modeling of the spatial distribution of employment. ... The volume also stands out in the ways in which the various chapters combine detailed descriptions of particular models with their applications to specific cities or regions, thus making the book an interesting read for those with a focus on the design of comprehensive employment location models as well as those rather concerned with their applications in different contexts." (Kristin Kronenberg, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 54 (2), March, 2014)
