This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the
spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multiregion …

Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning,
financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and …

We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using
French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women …

How would the shape of our cities change if there were a permanent increase in working
from home? We study this question using a quantitative model of the Los Angeles …

This paper documents and explains the striking rise in the college share near city centers
since 2000. We show that this urban revival is driven by younger college graduates in larger …

Traffic forecasting is a vital part of intelligent transportation systems. It becomes particularly
challenging due to short-term (eg, accidents, constructions) and long-term (eg, peak-hour …

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A
masterpiece.”—Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.”—The …

We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting
patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …

This paper estimates the effects of improving public transit infrastructure on city structure and
welfare. It develops a sufficient statistics approach common to a class of quantitative urban …

The introduction of autonomous (self-driving) and shared autonomous vehicles (AVs and
SAVs) will affect travel destinations and distances, mode choice, and congestion. From a …