Land Use and Built Environment

Nowadays, 23% of the world population lives in multi-million cities. In these metropolises, criminal activity is much higher and violent than in either small cities or rural areas. Thus, understanding what factors influence urban crime in big cities is a pressing need. Seminal studies analyse crime records through historical panel data or analysis of historical patterns combined with ecological factor and exploratory mapping. More recently, machine learning methods have provided informed crime prediction over time. However, previous studies have focused on a single city at a time,...

To serve more markets for supporting its sustainable development, Zhuhai airport tends to act as a new gateway by providing an air–bridge–air path that links its domestic network to the international air routes of Hong Kong Airport, through surface transportation via the Hongkong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge. In order to identify the target passengers using the new gateway service, this paper proposes a market segmentation approach which incorporates the heterogeneity among passengers in the choice of the air–bridge–air route and explicitly incorporates people’s curiosity about the new service. A...

Traffic congestion has become an increasingly critical issue across the United States, disrupting transportation networks and impacting society in ways that extend beyond mobility. Congestion contributes to declining public health, reduced quality of life, and environmental concerns such as pollution, noise, and stress (Meyer, 1997). Nationally, travel delays rose from 5.1 billion hours in 2000 to 8.7 billion hours in 2019, while fuel waste increased from 2.4 billion gallons to 3.5 billion gallons over the same period. Similarly, excess greenhouse gas emissions escalated from 25 million...

Road transport infrastructure can, together with other factors, influence location choices and decisions involving residential, commercial, and industrial development. The network of roads and highways provides a means for access for workers and materials as well as a way for distributing products and services. Greater access lowers the costs of transportation and therefore increases the supply of many resources, including land, labor, and materials. An investment in highway infrastructure can have a variety of land use impacts, depending upon which of the above factors have been affected...