Traffic congestion and its urban scale factors: Empirical evidence from American urban areas

MM Rahman, P Najaf, MG Fields… - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study empirically investigates the causes of urban traffic congestion to bring into focus
the variety of beliefs that provide support for policy interventions to mitigate traffic congestion …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience assessment of intercity transport in a two-city system

J Wang, F Liao, J Wu, Z Xu, Z Gao - Transportation Research Part E …, 2024 - Elsevier
For resilience analysis, studies in the transport field have focused on the short term, while
attention in the spatial and economic field has been paid to the long term. No resilience …

Incorporating polycentric development and neighborhood life-circle planning for reducing driving in Bei**g: Nonlinear and threshold analysis

W Zhang, D Lu, Y Zhao, X Luo, J Yin - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
This study adopts a gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) model to contrast the relative
importance of improving regional accessibility versus local land use for reducing driving …

Neural embeddings of urban big data reveal spatial structures in cities

C Fan, Y Yang, A Mostafavi - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2024 - nature.com
Over decades, many cities have been expanded and functionally diversified by population
activities, socio-demographics and attributes of the built environment. Urban expansion and …

Land use densification revisited: Nonlinear mediation relationships with car ownership and use

W Zhang, D Lu, Y Chen, C Liu - … research part d: transport and environment, 2021 - Elsevier
We revisit the effectiveness of land use densification as a strategy to promote travel
sustainability by investigating the nonlinearity and mediation in the effects of residential …

Urban residential space differentiation and the influence of accessibility in Hangzhou, China

L Zhang, L Zhu, D Shi, EC Hui - Habitat International, 2022 - Elsevier
Residential spatial differentiation is a common phenomenon during the urbanization
process of large cities. This paper studies residential differentiation in Hangzhou, China, by …

Agglomeration, housing affordability, and new firm formation: The role of subway network

R Du, S Zheng - Journal of Housing Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
The housing affordability issue in mega-cities creates a significant job-housing mismatch
and undermines productive new business creation. This paper focuses on Bei**g and …

Impacts of intercity commuting on travel characteristics and urban performances in a two-city system

T Dong, N Jia, S Ma, SX Xu, GP Ong, P Liu… - … research part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of intercity commuting on travel characteristics and urban
performances. A spatial equilibrium model of the two-city system which involves the travel …

Incorporating land use and pricing policies for reducing car dependence: Analytical framework and empirical evidence

W Zhang, M Zhang - Urban studies, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article develops an analytical framework to connect the theories of market and planning
failures with the reasoning of incorporating land use and pricing policies for reducing driving …

Optimal policies in cities with congestion and agglomeration externalities: Congestion tolls, labor subsidies, and place-based strategies

W Zhang, KM Kockelman - Journal of urban economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper develops a spatial general equilibrium model that accommodates both
congestion and agglomeration externalities, while firms' and households' land-use decisions …