State University of New York at Buffalo
University of California, Riverside

Virtual Co-laboratory for Policy Analysis in Greater Los Angeles

Saturday Agenda


Agenda   
Saturday, January 17th, 2015 

 

*For a pdf version of the full conference agenda click here.

7:45  Breakfast
Micro-Econometric Advances in Urban Economics
    Chair: Alex Anas, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, USA
8:30  Rationality and exuberance in land prices and the supply of new housing   
Alex Anas, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA; and Debarshi Indra, University of California at Riverside, USA.  slides
Discussant: Kerry Vandell, University of California at Irvine, USA.  slides
9:15  Teardowns and demolitions in Chicago, 2000-2014: A conditionally parametric approach
Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.  slides
Discussant: David Brownstone, University of California at Irvine, USA.  slides
10:00  Coffee Break
10:30 The value of urgency: evidence from congestion pricing experiments  
Antonio Bento, Cornell University and the NBER, USA; Kevin Roth, University of California at Irvine, USA; and Andrew Waxman, Cornell University, USA.  slides
Discussant: Genevieve Giuliano, University of Southern California, USA.  
11:15 Choice of residence location and mode of commuting: a cross-sectional analysis of 275 US metropolitan areas   
Debarshi Indra, University of California at Riverside, USA.  slides
Discussant: Kenneth Small, University of California at Irvine, USA.  slides
12:00  Lunch (Oriental Courtyard)
Traffic Networks, Optimization and Spatial Organization  
    Chair: Richard Church, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA  
13:00 Determining compact and traffic constrained zones for urban and regional modeling   
Richard Church, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA; and Wenwen Li, Arizona State University, USA.  slides
Discussant: Debarshi Indra, University of California at Riverside, USA.  slides
13:45  Modeling and optimization of multimodal urban networks with limited parking and dynamic pricing   
Nikolas Geroliminis and Nan Zheng, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, France.  slides
Discussant: Andre de Palma, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Paris, France.  slides
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Modeling crowding and travel time variability in multimodal public transport networks: new results from Santiago   
Alejandro Tirachini and Elsa Duran, University of Santiago, Santiago de Chile, Chile.  slides
Discussant: Jonas Eliasson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.  slides
15:45 

Modeling traffic emissions in networks with macroscopic traffic models   
Eric J. Gonzales and Rooholamin Shabihkhani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.  slides
Discussant: Antonio Bento, Cornell University, USA.  slides

Dinner  This meal is on your own. For suggestions, please see the informative handout.

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