RESEARCH THEME 2
Integrated Urban Modelling & Economic Analysis
INTEGRATED MODELLING
LAND USE
HOUSEHOLD LOCATION
EMPLOYMENT LOCATION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
ILUTE
INTEGRATED LAND USE
MICROSIMULATION
AGENT-BASED
ACTIVITY-BASED
POLICY ANALYSIS
INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
COST OF DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING
FINANCING
PLANNING ANALYSIS
IMPACT
Project
Integrated urban models represent the interactions between transportation and land use evolution in a comprehensive, coordinated way so that the impacts of transportation accessibility on land development and household and firm location processes can be assessed, with these urban form processes, in turn, determining the spatial pattern of travel demand. Integrated urban models provide practical platforms for “systems of systems” modelling of urban spatial-temporal socio-economic processes (travel, housing markets, demographics, etc.) in support of a wide variety of transportation and land use policy analyses.

ILUTE (Integrated Land Use, Transportation, Environment) model system is a state-of-the-art agent-based, microsimulation system for the GTHA, and the agent-based, activity-based travel microsimulation model TASHA (Travel/Activity Scheduler for Household-Agents), both developed at UofT, provide a cutting-edge platform for urban systems analysis and decision-support. This project took ILUTE/TASHA as its foundation for the development of economic performance measures for improved policy analysis and decision-making three related applications:

1. A transportation Benefit/Cost Analysis framework to inform transportation investment policy development.
2. Integrated modelling capacity to assess the viability and revenue generating potential of different Land Value Capture tools that can be piloted using live transportation investment proposals drawn from the GTHA (e.g. public land development, tax increment financing).
3. A dynamic model to assess the costs of different forms of development (e.g., greenfield versus brownfield, or higher versus lower rates of density).
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Total Generated VKT by degree of urbanity
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Total PKT Generated by degree of urbanity
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Potential Accessibility by Transit

PEOPLE
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PUBLICATIONS
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“Integrated Urban Modelling: Past, Present & Future”, Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11:1, 387-399, 2018.
Miller, E.J.
“Rethinking Economic Analysis for Urban Transportation Investment”, iCity Working Paper, Toronto: University of Toronto Transportation research Institute, forthcoming.
Miller E.J.
“Modelling Dynamic Housing Markets”, PhD thesis, Toronto: Department of Civil & Mining Engineering, University of Toronto. (in progress)
Yu Zhang
“Land Use Modelling” (Co-supervised; home university: Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China). (in progress)
Dachuan Zhang
“Accessibility & Diagnosis in Integrated Urban Planning Land Use Policy Diagnosis”, PhD thesis, Toronto: Department of Civil & Mining Engineering, University of Toronto. (in progress)
Fernanda Soares
“Modelling Transportation System Impacts of Housing Supply Dynamics”, PhD thesis, Toronto: Department of Civil & Mining Engineering, University of Toronto, 2020. (submitted).
Ayad Hammadi
PRESENTATIONS
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RESEARCH THEMES Urban Informatics for Transportation Operations, Planning, & Decision making Urban Mobility & Integrated Urban Systems Design Visualization & Decision Support
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