Project Working Papers, Technical Reports, Publications and Conference Presentations
Working Papers
2007-1 "Real-World CO2 Impacts of Traffic Congestion," Matthew Barth and Kanok Boriboonsomsin,
November 2007
2010-1 "General Equilibrium Impacts of an Urban Growth Boundary: Application of RELU-TRAN2 to
the Chicago MSA," Alex Anas and Tomoru Hiramatsu, April 2010
2010-2 "The Impact of Congestion Pricing Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and
Urban Sprawl, " Alex Anas and Tomoru Hiramatsu, November 2010
2011-1 "An Optimization Model for the P-Compact-Regions Problem and Its Application to Regional
Economic Modeling," Wenwen Li, Richard Church, and Michael Goodchild, April 2011
2011-2 "An Optimization Technique for Addressing DEM Misregistration," Wenwen Li and Michael
Goodchild, November 2011
2013-1 "Efficiency in Resource Allocation in a Metropolitan Area: An Urban Economist's
Perspective", Richard Arnott. October 2013
2013-2 "Identifying Employment Subcenters: The Method of Exponentially Declining Cutoffs",
Jifei Ban and Richard Arnott, November 2013
2013-3 "The Aggregate Value of Urban Land in the Greater Los Angeles Region", Richard Arnott
and Huiling Zhang, November 2013
2014-1 "Choice of Residence Location and Mode of Commuting: A Cross-sectional Analysis of 275
US Metropolitan Areas", Debarshi Indra, July 2014
2014-2 "Regional Variations in Labor Demand Elasticities: Evidence from U.S. Counties", Abhradeep
Maiti and Debarshi Indra, October 2014
2015-1 "Parking and Urban Form", Jan Brueckner and Sofia Franco, April 2015
Technical Reports
2009-1 "Identifying Employment Subcenters in the LA Metro Area: A Comparison of Three Procedures,"
Richard Arnott and Daniel McMillen, July 2009
2010-1 "Identifying Employment Subcenters in the LA Metro Area: The Negative Exponential
Procedure," Jifei Ban, July 2010
2010-2 "Construction Costs in the LA Metro Area," Richard Arnott, Laura Bellew Hannon, Srihari
Santhanam, and Ru Zhang, September 2010
2010-3 "Zoning in Southern California," Laura Bellew Hannon, Srihari Santhanam, and Richard Arnott,
September 2010
2010-4 "MRPI Technical Report on Population Projections," David A. Swanson, Allison Cantwell, and
Matt Kaneshiro, October 2010
2010-5 "Systematic Validation of MRPI Databases -- Census Data (Block Group)," Michael Goodchild
and Wenwen Li, October 2010
2010-6 "Zoning - Problem Description and Algorithm," Richard Church and Wenwen Li, October 2010
2010-7 "DEM-based Floor Area Estimation," Michael Goodchild and Wenwen Li, October 2010
2010-8 "Accessibility Evaluation of Undeveloped Land -- A Demo for Area of Angeles National Forest"
Michael Goodchild, Wenwen Li, and Jifei Ban, October 2010
2011-1 "Calculating Disposable Income as a Function of Primary Income," Huiling Zhang, Osman Icoz,
and Richard Arnott, July 2011
2011-2 "Computing Value per Square Foot of Vacant Parcels and Aggregating to Model Zone Level,"
Huiling Zhang and Richard Arnott, Aug 2011(version1) (version 2)
2011-3 "Estimation of Choice Models for RELU Using Aggregate Data," Alex Anas, Debarshi
Indra, October 2011
2011-4 "Determination of Choice Set for Non Work Trips in RELU from SCAG data," Debarshi Indra,
October 2011
2011-5 "LA Plan GUI Development Progress Report," Michael Goodchild, Wenwen Li, and Nate Royal,
November 2011
2011-6 "SCAG Parcel Database Validation Report on Accuracy of Total Floor Space per Parcel by
Ground Truth Trekking," Michael Goodchild, Wenwen Li, Alex Schild, and Nate Royal,
November 2011
2011-7 "Value and Rent per ft2 of Non-residential and Non-vacant Parcels at Model Zone Level",
Huiling Zhang and Richard Arnott, November 2011
2011-8 "Floor Area Adjustment for the Parcel Database of Greater Los Angles Region", Yizhen Gu
and Richard Arnott, November 2011
2011-9 "Blanks and Zeros in the SCAG Parcel Database", Yizhen Gu and Richard Arnott,
November 2011
2011-10 "Report on the Network Aggregation for TRAN - LA and the Calibration and Testing of the
TRAN - LA Road Network Equilibrium Model," Alex Anas and Tomoru Hiramatsu,
November 2011
2011-12 "Imputation of Rents and Values of Offices," Jifei Ban and Richard Arnott, November 2011
2012-1 "Optimal Spatial Sampling Design for the Imputation of Floor Area Data," Xiaohong Che and Richard
Arnott, Februray 2012
2012-2 "Value and Rent per ft2 of Residential Parcels at Model Zone Level", Huiling Zhang and Richard Arnott,
April 2012
2012-3 "Calibration of Production Sector in RELU", Alex Anas and Debarshi Indra, June 2012
2012-4 "Building Energy Usage - Data Review", George Scora and Kanok Boriboonsomsin, October 2012
2012-5 "Vehicle Fuel Use and Emission Factors", George Scora and Kanok Boriboonsomsin, October 2012
2012-7 "Report on GAMS vs FORTRAN Comparison", Alex Anas and Huibin Chang, August 2012
2012-8 “Developable Vacant Land in the LA Metro Area - An Economic Approach", Yuntao Guo and Richard
Arnott, March 2012
2012-9 "CyberGIS for the virtual co-laboratory for policy analysis", Michael Goodchild, Wenwen Li, and Linna Li,
December 2012
2013-1 "Congestion and Metropolitan Development", Alex Anas, March 2013
2013-2 "RELU Greater Los Angeles Region Data Documentation", Alex Anas and Debarshi Indra, July 2012
2013-3 "Assessing the Current LA-Plan TRAN GUI", Matthew Taylor, August 2013
2013-4 "Ground Truth Tracking of Land Use in SCAG's Parcel Database", Ramy Mami and Matthew Taylor,
September 2013
2013-5 "Validation of the RELU-TRAN L.A. Model", Sofia Franco, October 2013
2014-1 "Modeling of Near-Road Concentration of Primary PM2.5 based on TRAN-LA's Model Outputs", Kanok
Boriboonsomsin, May 2014
2014-2 "The Effects of Land Value Taxation in a Computable GE Model", Alex Anas, October 2014
2014-3 "The Structure of the RELU-TRAN L.A.-Parking Model", Sofia Franco, November 2014
2016-1 "Vehicle Parking Facilities Data Collection for the RELU-TRAN L.A.-Parking Model", Sofia Franco, May 2016
2016-2 "Parking Costs in Los Angeles County", Sofia Franco, June 2016
2016-3 "Modeling of Traffic-Related Primary Fine Particle Concentration in Southern California and Its
Application in Environmental Inequality Studies", Ji Luo and Kanok Boriboonsomsim, June 2016
Publications
2011-1 "Planning Sustainable Cities in the 21st Century", Richard Arnott. A Sustainable Population:
Key Policy Issues, Productivity Commission: Government of Australia. March 2011.
2011-2 "Reducing Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Road Pricing in Theory and in
Practice," Alex Anas and Robin Lindsey. Review of Environmental Economics & Policy,
June 2011.
2011-3 "What Planners Need to Know about the 'New Urban Economics'", Richard Arnott. The
Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, December 2011.
2012-1 "Shedding Light on Urban Policy", Richard Arnott, Nature Climate Change, May 2012.
2012-2 "The Effect of the Price of Gasoline on the Urban Economy: From Route Choice to General
Equilibrium", Alex Anas and Tomoru Hiramatsu. Transportation Research Part A: Policy
and Practice, July 2012.
2012-3 "Residential Location and the New Urban Economics", Richard Arnott. International
Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, July 2012.
2012-4 "Urban Economic Simulation Models", Richard Arnott. International Encyclopedia of
Housing and Home, July 2012.
2013-1 "An Efficient Measure of Compactness for Two-Dimensional Shapes and Its Application in
Regionalization Problems", Wenwen Li, Michael F. Goodchild and Richard Church.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, January 2013.
2013-2 "The Economics of Cordon Tolling: General Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis", Alex Anas
and Tomoru Hiramatsu. Economics of Transportation, March 2013.
2013-3 "Location Effects of Road Pricing Policies", Alex Anas. Infrastructure and Land Policies,
May 2013.
2013-4 "A Summary of the Applications to Date of RELU-TRAN, a Microeconomic Urban
Computable General Equilibrium Model", Alex Anas. Environment and Planning B :
Planning and Design, July 2013.
2013-5 "The P-Compact-Regions Problems", Wenwen Li, Michael F Goodchild and Richard Church.
Geographical Analysis, December 2013.
2014-1 "An Extendable Heuristic Framework to Solve the P-Compact-Regions Problem for Urban
Economic Modeling", Wenwen Li, Michael F. Goodchild and Richard Church.
Computer, Environment and Urban Systems, January 2014.
2014-2 "Why are Urban Travel Times so Stable", Alex Anas. Journal of Regional Science,
January 2015.
Conference Presentations
Alex Anas:
2010-1 "Sprawl, Infrastructure Lock-ins and Transit Oriented Development: What have we learned from urban economics?" Keynote Address at the Workshop on Urban Dynamics: Urbanics, Sponsored by the Instituto Milenio Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, Marbella, Chile, March 22-25, 2010.
2010-2 "Road Pricing and Urban Structure," at the 5th Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on Transport Economics and Summer School 2010: Inaugural Meeting of the International Transport Economics Association , Fundació Universitat-Empresa (ADEIT), Valencia, Spain 8-12 July, 2010.
2010-3 "Metropolitan Decentralization and the Stability of Travel Time," at the 5th meetings of the Urban Economics Association (57th North American Regional Science Association Annual Meetings), Denver, Colorado, November 10-13, 2010.
2010-4 "Congestion, road pricing and urban sprawl," Keynote speech at Transport Futures 2010: Road Pricing & Smart Growth Forum", December 2, 2010, Toronto, Canada
2011-1 “Transport Supply and Finance in an Urban Economy,” at the Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, (IVT) Chair for Information Architecture (IA), Swiss Federal institute of technology, Zurich, Switzerland, March 17, 2011.
2011-2 “Urban CGE Models: The Interaction of Travel, Housing and Labor Markets,” at the Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, (IVT) Chair for Information Architecture (IA), Swiss Federal institute of technology, Zurich, Switzerland, March 18, 2011.
2011-3 “RELU-TRAN: Applications and Challenges,” at the Symposium on Applied Urban Modeling, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23-24 May 2011.
2011-4 “Metropolitan Decentralization and the Stability of Travel Time,” at the symposium in honor of Folke Snickars, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Folke-symposium, May 26-28, 2011.
2011-5 “Metropolitan Decentralization and the Stability of Travel Time,” at the Technical University of Dresden, May 30, 2011.
2011-6 “The RELU-TRAN Model and its application to “Ile-de-France,” Presentation at the Societe du Grand Paris, France December 6, 2011.
2013-1 "Congestion and Metropolitan Development," Presented at the 12th International Conference "Economy and Geography", The Leontief Center, St. Petersburg, The Russian Federation, February 14-16, 2013
2013-2 "What do Chicago, Paris and Los Angeles have in common?" at the New Economic School, Moscow, February 20, 2013. You Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gusipxlliU. Slides of presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/NewEconomicSchool/what-do-chicago-paris-and-los-angeles-have-in-common
Richard Arnott:
2011-1 "Planning Sustainable Cities in the 21st Century". Productivity Commission Roundtable: A 'sustainable population'? -- key policy issues. Canberra, Australia. March 2011.
2011-2 "LA-Plan: A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality in the LA Metro Area". ADAM Eco-Gestion Meeting. Aix-en-Provence, France. July 2011.
2012-1 "A Bathtub Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion". North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association. Ottawa, Canada. November 2012.
2013-1 "The Aggregate Value of Urban Land in the Greater Los Angeles Region". University of Bordeaux. December 6, 2013.
Tomoru Hiramatsu:
2010-1 "The Effect of the Price of Gasoline on the Urban Economy: From Route Choice to General Equilibrium", at the Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics, Valencia, Spain, July 2010.
2010-2 "General Equilibrium Impacts of an Urban Boundary: Application of RELU-TRAN2 to the Chicago MSA", at theJapanese Economics Association, Hyogo, Japan, September 2010.
2010-3 "The Impact of Congestion Pricing Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Urban Sprawl", att the North America Regional Science, Denver, November 2010.
2011-1 "The Impact of Congestion Pricing Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Urban Sprawl", at Japanese Economics Association, Kumamoto, Japan, May 2011.
2011-2 The Economics of Cordon Tolling: General Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis", at North America Regional Science, Miami, November 2011.