In spite of a number of before-and-after evaluation studies of ITS field operational tests and other deployments that have substantiated the favorable payoff of investments in ITS technology, ITS benefits assessment is not a straightforward matter and continues to pose significant challenges....

Spatial interaction (SI) is the process whereby entities at different points in physical space make contacts, demand/supply decisions or locational choices. The entities can be individuals or firms and the choices can include housing, jobs, production quantities, exports, imports, face-to-face...

This paper explores the impact of multipurpose and multistop shopping behavior on spatial competition among retail firms. The problem deals with a duopoly situation on a line segment. It is shown analytically that a unique location-price Nash equilibrium exists. In equilibrium, the locational...

The contention of this paper is that many social science research problems are too “wicked” to be suitably studied using conventional statistical and regression-based methods of data analysis. This paper argues that an integrated geospatial approach based on methods of machine learning is...

Urban dynamics including both sprawl and infill poses serious long-term planning challenges for public facilities. In those situations, it is deemed vital to expand (or contract) an existing network of public facilities to meet anticipated changes in the level of demand. We present a dynamic...

In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land development, lot sizes, and square-footage of...

In rapidly growing urban areas, it is deemed vital to expand (or contract) an existing network of public facilities to meet anticipated changes in the level of demand. We present a multi-period capacitated median model for school network facility location planning that minimizes transportation...