tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82960764757131705552024-02-20T15:22:45.696-08:00Urban ResearchA collection of online open-access materials about urban studiesH.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.comBlogger1227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-52556719996798219602022-07-13T07:24:00.001-07:002022-07-13T07:24:14.661-07:00Relations of Public Transport Use and Car Ownership with Neighbourhood and City-Level Travel Purposes in Kerman, Iran By Houshmand Masoumi, Chengete Chakamera , Liberty Mapamba, Noleen Pisa, and Hamid Soltanzadeh There are significant deviations in travel mode choice drivers between developed and developing countries. This study investigates the determinants of car ownership and public transit ridership in Iran. Using survey data from 800 respondents, the determinants of travel behaviour of Kerman H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-13618726867167857742022-07-12T01:54:00.004-07:002022-07-12T01:55:43.323-07:00System Dynamics Modeling and Fuzzy MCDM Approach as Support for Assessment of Sustainability Management on the Example of Transport Sector Company By Shohreh Moradi, Grzegorz Sierpinski, and Houshmand MasoumiContemporary challenges
for development should involve a sustainable approach. One of the
important sectors where such challenges are observed is transport. In a
wide range of studies addressing environmental, social, and economic
dimensions of sustainability, an approach that combines these dimensions
as an integrated H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-14365312713887113942022-06-16T04:51:00.004-07:002022-06-16T04:51:28.259-07:00Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan By Carmen Guida, Gerardo Carpentieri, and Houshmand MasoumiThis study proposes a Geographic Information Systems-based methodology
to measure accessibility to urban services from the elderly perspective
to support urban planning processes. Specifically, it seeks to
understand and clarify how the urban environment can influence the
quality of life for older adults, mostly through H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-1976233640793698382022-05-23T08:50:00.004-07:002022-05-23T08:50:23.910-07:00The Land Use and Individual Correlates of Pedestrian Commuting: Who Walks to Their Work or Place of Study in the Large Cities of the MENA Region? By Houshmand Masoumi and Grzegorz Sierpiński The body of research on the determinants of pedestrian commuting and the characteristics of on-foot commuters at the international level and especially in the Global South is inconsistent; hence, this study focuses on this topic with the case of megacities in the Middle East and North Africa. The study is based on 8284 face-to-face H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-65794548611361322012021-12-31T15:31:00.002-08:002021-12-31T15:31:16.500-08:00Logit and probit models explaining perceived cycling motives, barriers, and biking trip generation in Lahore, Pakistan By Izza Anwer, Houshmand Masoumi, Atif Bilal Aslamd, and Muhammad AsimCycling as an attractive mode of transport is a challenge, especially in developing countries like Pakistan. Previous research on cycling in developing countries is insufficient to answer that how people can be encouraged to bike in different regions and cultures. This research, therefore, directs two research H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-57530124876776899032021-11-17T07:04:00.003-08:002021-11-17T07:04:50.579-08:00The Neighborhood Effect on Keeping Non-Commuting Journeys within Compact and Sprawled Districts by
Melika Mehriar, Houshmand Masoumi, Atif Bilal Aslam, and Syed Mubasher Gillani
The neighborhood effect on keeping non-commuting trips inside
neighborhoods has not yet been investigated in developing countries. The
modeling of non-commuting trips inside neighborhoods helps understand
how to avoid unnecessary journeys by car into different parts of the
city. This paper, H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-47970952280050078012021-10-09T01:49:00.006-07:002021-10-09T01:54:21.024-07:00Call for Papers: Special Issue: Theme: The Impact of COVID-19 on the transport and logistics management: Lessons learnt and future imperatives Call for Papers: Special IssueTheme: The Impact of COVID-19 on the transport and logistics management: Lessons learnt and future imperatives.This is an open invitation to contribute your latest research towards the special issue of the Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management.The special issue will publish articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemicH.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-12113157997622074992021-01-07T04:27:00.003-08:002021-01-07T04:27:59.113-08:00The Relation Between Residential Self-Selection and Urban Mobility in Middle Eastern Cities: the Case of Alexandria, EgyptBy Houshmand Masoumi, Mohamed R. Ibrahim, & Atif Bilal Aslam The present paper attempts to fill a part of the gap in the studies on residential location choices and their relations to urban mobility, socio-economics, and the built environment by presenting the results of a study on Alexandria, Egypt, by analysing the results of a survey in eight neighbourhoods H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-33265587832564572552021-01-02T02:50:00.003-08:002021-01-02T02:50:59.732-08:00Logistic models explaining the determinants of biking for commute and non-commute trips in Lahore, PakistanBy Houshmand Masoumi, Muhammad Asim, Izza Anwer, and Sheikh Atif Bilal AslamThe determinants of biking behavior are less studied in a wide range of developing countries including South Asia. This study takes Lahore, Pakistan as a case-study city to explore the factors defining commute and non-commute bike trips as well as commuting by bike. These issues were analyzed by collecting H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-40534638492498297462020-12-25T04:35:00.000-08:002020-12-25T04:35:18.103-08:00Linking sustainability and happiness. What kind of happiness?By František Petrovič and František Murgaš Sustainability is part of the scientific mainstream; in the following paper we connect it with the phenomenon of happiness, which is becoming a discussed concept not only among researchers but also amongst public. This is due to the fact that today’s society has become a consumer society. This knowledge has provoked criticism of the H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-90156050081392032992020-12-07T14:32:00.001-08:002020-12-07T14:32:12.556-08:00Children’s Independent Mobility to School in Seven European Countries: A Multinomial Logit Model By Houshmand Masoumi, Martin van Rooijen, and Grzegorz SierpińskiThe determinants of children’s independent school mobility and the contextual
discrepancies between these determinants have not been comprehensively investigated in previous
studies. It is important to examine these determinants because independent school mobility is
associated with children’s physical activity, accordingH.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-57115734472058067822020-12-03T12:02:00.001-08:002020-12-03T12:03:27.950-08:00Polycentricity in a developing world: A micro-regional analysis for morphological polycentricity in TurkeyBy N. Aydan SatFollowing the publication of ‘European Spatial Development Perspective’ in 1999, a large number of theoretical and empirical studies have been carried out on polycentric spatial development especially in European settlements. The relationship between polycentricity and economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and social cohesion are some of the main concerns of these H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-39784919850946361182020-11-23T03:10:00.001-08:002020-11-23T04:32:58.468-08:00Urban Sprawl, Socioeconomic Features, and Travel Patterns in Middle East Countries: A Case Study in Iran By Melika Mehriar, Houshmand Masoumi, and Inmaculada MohinoThe present study aimed to investigate different socioeconomic factors as well as the
perceptions and travel behaviors associated with urban sprawl in two cities of different sizes in
Iran, as a developing country in the Middle East. Four Weighted Least Squares (WLS) regression models were developed for Hamedan and H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-27744898732504737872020-10-04T01:01:00.001-07:002020-10-04T07:51:44.697-07:00The Relationship between Regular Use of Ridesourcing and Frequency of Public Transport Use in the MENA Region (Tehran and Cairo)By Hamid Mostofi, Houshmand Masoumi, andHans-Liudger Dienel Despite the growing share of ridesourcing services in cities, there is limited research about their impacts on other transport mode choices in the large cities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). There is a debate about whether ridesourcing affects the frequent use of sustainable modes like public transport. H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-7142981268193818822020-07-30T00:34:00.000-07:002020-07-30T00:35:29.528-07:00Correlations of Urban Sprawl with Transport Patterns and Socioeconomics of University Students in Cracow, PolandBy Melika Mehriar,
Houshmand Masoumi, and
Katarzyna Nosal Hoy
Urban sprawl is considered as a western urban development pattern, which is common in different cities around the world. Although a large number of studies have focused on urban sprawl, modeling urban sprawl has been less emphasized, especially in various geographical contexts. The present study aimed to investigate H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-65108796675254004432020-07-16T03:02:00.004-07:002020-07-16T03:03:41.421-07:00The Association between Regular Use of Ridesourcing and Walking Mode Choice in Cairo and TehranBy Hamid Mostofi, Houshmand Masoumi, and Hans-Liudger Dienel
The rapid adoption of ridesourcing poses challenges for researchers and policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as it is an evolving new transport mode, and there is little research explaining its effects on mobility behaviors in this region. There is a concern that ridesourcing, which offers convenient and H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-43736388015289009702019-09-10T03:54:00.001-07:002019-09-10T03:54:48.780-07:00TRANSPORT POLICIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEBy John Pucher and Ralph Buehler
The formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced profound political and economic changes since the demise of Communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Each country has its own particular history of transformation to a freer, more democratic, more market-based society. The timing and specific circumstances of the revolutions in H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-6491027662472567292019-09-09T04:51:00.000-07:002019-09-09T04:51:00.532-07:00Urban travel characteristics in relation with jobs-housing balance and accessibility: results of a survey in Lahore, PakistanBy Sheikh Atif Bilal Aslam, Houshmand E. Masoumi, and Syed Arif Hussain
The circumstances of the relations of jobs-housing balance
and urban travel behavior are not clear in emerging and developing
countries. There are limited reliable data suitable for testing the
hypotheses regarding the associations of the neighborhood-level number
of employment opportunities in these countries. This H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-41547017739973544222019-09-05T23:44:00.004-07:002019-09-05T23:44:45.316-07:00Healthy cities — walkability as a component of health-promoting urban planning and designBy Minh-Chau Tran
Health impairments due to inactivity are related to the car-oriented urban development of recent decades, along
with sedentary lifestyles. A health-maintaining environment must therefore not only reduce direct health risk factors
(pathogenic concept), but also contribute to health chances that may indirectly support health (salutogenic concept).
Walking has been H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-9031047770070513942019-09-04T23:12:00.002-07:002019-09-04T23:12:21.995-07:00Active Mobility: Bringing Together Transport Planning, Urban Planning, and Public HealthBy Caroline Koszowski, Regine Gerike, Stefan Hubrich, Thomas Götschi,
Maria Pohle1, Rico Wittwer
Active mobility is related to various positive effects and is promoted in urban
planning, transport planning, and in public health. The goals of these three disciplines differ in many respects but have a strong overlap in the ambition to foster
active mobility. Until now, efforts for H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-46248196016705401742019-09-03T23:23:00.001-07:002019-09-03T23:24:24.490-07:00Cyclability in Lahore, Pakistan: Looking into Potential for Greener Urban Traveling
By
Sheikh Atif Bilal Aslam,
Houshmand E. Masoumi,
Muhammad Asim,
Izza Anwer
Measuring perceived or objective cyclability or bikeability has drawn less attention compared to walkability, particularly in developing countries like those in South Asia and the Middle East. This paper presents the results of a survey about cyclability in Lahore, Pakistan, focusing on H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-51589736780484309602019-09-03T06:30:00.000-07:002019-09-03T06:30:01.787-07:00Monitoring Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Urban Development Using the Moran Index: A Case Study of Stellenbosch, South AfricaBy Walter Musakwa and Adriaan van Niekerk
The management of urban sprawl is fundamental to achieving sustainable urban development. Monitoring
urban sprawl is, however, challenging. This study proposes the use of two spatial statistics, namely global
Moran and local Moran to identify statistically significant urban sprawl hot and cold spots. The findings
reveal that the Moran indexes H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-42774724877621681622019-09-02T03:58:00.000-07:002019-09-02T03:58:08.997-07:00Urban Sustainability and Resilience: From Theory to PracticeBy Patricia Romero-Lankao, Daniel M. Gnatz, Olga Wilhelmi, and Mary Hayden
Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society
and the environment, and affecting cities’ sustainability and resilience in complex ways at alarming
rates. Over the last decades, sustainability and resilience have become key concepts aimed at
understanding existing urban H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-69997927127387018362019-09-01T00:22:00.004-07:002019-09-01T00:25:33.814-07:00Urban Form and Mobility Choices: Informing about Sustainable Travel Alternatives, Carbon Emissions and Energy Use from Transportation in Swedish NeighbourhoodsBy Todor Stojanovski
The lack of mobility choices in many Swedish neighbourhoods and cities designed
for automobiles hinders the possibilities to shift towards more sustainable travel alternatives.
Urban designers and planners can help with redesigning these neighbourhoods and creating urban
forms that encourage walking, cycling and increased use of public transportation if they are H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296076475713170555.post-49046221470624408662019-08-31T01:29:00.005-07:002019-08-31T01:29:49.888-07:00Revisiting Urban Planning in Developed CountriesBy Pietro Garau
The purpose of this paper is to describe urban planning trends in the so-called “developed
countries”. And indeed, the countries under examination will be precisely those still falling
under this category. Throughout this paper, however, the vast region to which they belong
will be referred to as “The North”. One reason for this is that, to this author as well as to many
H.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09342104748588694263noreply@blogger.com0