Employment Location in Cities and Regions ― Models and Applications

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.

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.