Does metropolitan form affect transportation sustainability? Evidence from US metropolitan areas by Sevtuk, Andres, Amindarbari, Reza

“…In this paper, we examine transportation sustainability in American metropolitan areas using transportation-related CO₂ emissions, public transit accessibility, and commuting times as indicators. …”
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From Cars to Casinos: Global Pasts and Local Futures in the Detroit-Windsor Transnational Metropolitan Area [book chapter] by Ryan, Brent D.

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Estimating Origin-Destination flows using opportunistically collected mobile phone location data from one million users in Boston Metropolitan Area by Calabrese, Francesco, Di Lorenzo, Giusy, Liu, Liang, Ratti, Carlo

“…Using an algorithm to analyze opportunistically collected mobile phone location data, the authors estimate weekday and weekend travel patterns of a large metropolitan area with high accuracy.…”
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Scenario Planning for Strategic Regional Transportation Planning by Zegras, Pericles C, Sussman, Joseph M, Conklin, Christopher

“…The paper continues with a presentation of a scenario-planning framework for transportation as refined and applied to the Houston metropolitan area. The major findings and lessons from this application are discussed, together with conclusions and observations regarding further potentials and refinements. …”
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Does segregation matter for Latinos? by De la Roca, Jorge, Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Steil, Justin P

“…Using individual public use micro-data samples from the Census and a novel instrumental variable, we find that higher levels of metropolitan area segregation have negative effects on Latino young adults’ likelihood of being either employed or in school, on the likelihood of working in a professional occupation, and on income. …”
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Content consumption cartography of the Paris urban region using cellular probe data by Hoteit, Sahar, He, Zhuochao, Ratti, Carlo

“…In order to answer these questions, in this paper we document the content consumption in Orange cellular network for Paris metropolitan area. From spatial and application-level extensive analysis of real data, we numerically and statistically quantify the geographical distribution of content consumption with per-service classifications. …”
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Human mobility prediction based on individual and collective geographical preferences by Calabrese, Francesco, Di Lorenzo, Giusy, Ratti, Carlo

“…The effectiveness of the proposed prediction model is tested using a massive mobile phone location dataset available for the Boston metropolitan area. Experimental results show good levels of accuracy in terms of prediction error and prove the advantage of using the collective behavior in the prediction model.…”
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Finding Sprawl Factors and Pirate Development: Based on Spatial Analysis of Population Grid Changes from 2014 to 2022 in SMA, South Korea by Lim, Jaebin, Kang, Myounggu

“…This comprehensive study explores urban sprawl in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), emphasizing its rising intensity and complexity despite previous public-led planning efforts. …”
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Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? by Lee, Jae Seung, Park, Sungjin, Zegras, Pericles C, Ben-Joseph, Eran

“…We compare the travel behavior of urban versus suburban baby boomers in the Boston metropolitan area. Using propensity score matching to attempt to control for self-selection and data from two surveys implemented in 2008 and 2010, we find that the urban boomers tend to be less automobile-dependent than suburban baby boomers. …”
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Inferring individual daily activities from mobile phone traces: A Boston example by Ratti, Carlo, Zhu, Yi, Ferreira Jr, Joseph, Diao, Mi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“…The proposed approach enables us to spatially and temporally quantify, visualize, and examine urban activity landscapes in a metropolitan area and provides real-time decision support for the city. …”
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Intersecting Residential and Transportation CO2 Emissions: Metropolitan Climate Change Programs in the Age of Trump by Landis, John D., Hsu, Yuin-Jen David, Guerra, Erick

“…This article uses a series of fixed-ratio projections and scenarios to explore the potential for local residential energy conservation mandates and compact growth programs to reduce locally based CO₂ emissions in eleven representative US metropolitan areas. Averaged across all eleven metros, residential energy conservation mandates could reduce residential CO₂ emissions in 2030 by an average of 30 percent over and above 2010 levels. …”
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Calling for validation: demonstrating the use of mobile phone data to validate integrated land use transportation models by Jiang, Shan, Viña-Arias, Laura, Zegras, Christopher, Ferreira, Joseph, Gonzalez, Marta

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Vehicle miles traveled and the built environment: evidence from vehicle safety inspection data by Diao, Mi, Ferreira, Joseph, Jr.

“…This study examines the linkage between household vehicle usage and their residential locations within a metropolitan area using a newly available administrative dataset of annual private passenger vehicle safety inspection records (with odometer readings) and spatially detailed data on the built environment. …”
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Measuring Resilience to Natural Hazards: Towards Sustainable Hazard Mitigation by Shim, Jae, Kim, Chun Il

“…This paper applied a confirmatory factor methodology to operationalize the biophysical, built-environment, and socioeconomic resilience dimensions for local jurisdictions in large urban metropolitan areas in South Korea. Mapping the factor scores of the dimensions revealed great spatial variations. …”
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The Significance of Segregation in the 21st Century by Ellen, Ingrid Gould, De la Roca, Jorge, Steil, Justin P

“…Researchers have vigorously debated the significance of the reductions in residential segregation by race that U.S. metropolitan areas have experienced. While some argue that we have witnessed the “end of the segregated century” (Vigdor and Glaeser 2012; Vigdor 2013), others highlight the persistence of high levels of segregation in many areas (e.g., Logan 2013). …”
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Varieties of Urbanism: A Comparative View of Inequality and the Dual Dimensions of Metropolitan Fragmentation by Freemark, Yonah, Steil, Justin P, Thelen, Kathleen

“…Examining five metropolitan areas in North America and Europe, the article identifies two distinct dimensions of fragmentation: (a) fragmentation through jurisdictional proliferation (dividing regions into increasing numbers of governments) and (b) fragmentation through resource hoarding (via exclusion, municipal parochialism, and fiscal competition). …”
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The Emergence of Inter-Municipal Collaboration: Evidence from Metropolitan Planning in Portugal by Rayle, Lisa, Zegras, P. Christopher

“…Based on nine cases from Portugal's two largest metropolitan areas, we test a model of inter-municipal collaboration, attempting to identify the factors and conditions which contribute to the emergence of collaborative relationships. …”
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Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Mobility by Zegras, Pericles C

“…Furthermore, mobility also serves as the core metric in defining metropolitan areas, helping identify functional urban areas. …”
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