Congratulations to Mr. Kyusik Kim of FSU Geography for having his paper on commuting dynamics during the Great Recession published in the Journal of Transport Geography. The paper uses a massive dataset in the Atlanta area to explore impacts on public vs. private sector workers.
Healthy food accessibility paper to be presented at the 2013 Transportation Research Board meeting
With the program now posted, here is a link to a new paper which will be presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting (Washington, DC) in January of 2013. This multi-authored paper led by Dr. Michael Widener (University of Cincinnati) describes a new approach to measuring people’s accessibility to healthy food options in urban environments, controlling for selected activity constraints.
New commuting paper published in Applied Geography
Our latest work on commuting and jobs-housing balance has just been published in Applied Geography. This paper works with a relatively new Census database known as LEHD to analyze commuting trends over the last several years. It uses the local Tallahassee area as a case study. FSU graduate student Daniel Schleith was a coauthor on the study.
Commuting during the Great Recession – A presentation at the Transportation Research Board meeting 2013
With the program now posted, here is a link to our new paper which will be presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting (Washington, DC) in January of 2013. Coauthored with FSU graduate student Daniel Schleith, this paper reports on a spatial and temporal analysis of commuting patterns using a new U.S. Census data source. The study period covers the years of the Great Recession and explores transportation trends during the economic downturn.