New article first published online: Travel Behaviour and Society ABSTRACT: There has been an increasing share of older workers in America’s workforce as Baby Boomers continue to age into this group. This raises questions about what their local labor markets look like in space and how they differ from Millennials and Generation Xers who […]
New article first published online: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ABSTRACT: The Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) and its variants have been widely used in public health to measure people’s accessibility to healthy food. These indices are purely environmental as they only concern the geographic distribution of food retailers, but fail […]
New article first published online: Social Networks ABSTRACT: Interorganizational coalitions or collaboratives in healthcare are essential to address the health challenges of local communities, particularly during crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. However, few studies use large-scale data to systematically assess the network structure of these collaboratives and understand their potential to be resilient […]
New article first published online: Heliyon ABSTRACT: Coordinating dynamic interceptive actions in sports like badminton requires skilled performance in getting the racket into the right place at the right time. For this reason, the strategic movement and placement of one’s feet, or footwork, is an important part of competitive performance. Developing an automated, efficient, […]
New article first published online: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences ABSTRACT: For many socioeconomically disadvantaged customers living in food deserts, the high costs and minimum order size requirements make attended grocery deliveries financially non-viable, although it has a potential to provide healthy foods to the food insecure population. This paper proposes consolidating customer orders and delivering […]
New article first published online: Journal of Transport Geography ABSTRACT: Excess commuting measures commuting efficiency by comparing the actual commute with minimum commute for a given urban form (Hu and Li, 2021). Despite recent methodological advances, research gaps still exist. Calculating the minimum commute requires an optimization process of swapping residences/jobs among workers (White, […]
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New article first published online: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space ABSTRACT: The spatial dimension of the journey-to-work has important implications for land use and development policymaking and has been widely studied. One thrust of this research is concerned with the disaggregation of workers into subgroups for understanding disparities in commute. Most of […]
New article first published online: Journal of Environmental Psychology ABSTRACT: We systematically review and meta-analyze quantitative prediction models for hurricane evacuation decisions. Drawing on data from 33 prediction models and 29,873 households, we estimate distributions of effects on evacuation decisions for 25 predictors. Mobile home occupancy, evacuation orders, and having an evacuation plan showed the […]
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New article first published online: Annals of the American Association of Geographers; DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1835461 ABSTRACT: Commuting, like other types of human travel, is complex in nature, such as trip-chaining behavior involving making stops of multiple purposes between two anchors. According to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, about half of weekday U.S. workers made a […]
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New article first published online: Landscape and Urban Planning; DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.104003 ABSTRACT: Crime and perception of safety are two intertwined concepts affecting the quality of life and the economic development of a society. However, few studies have quantitatively examined the difference between the two due to the lack of granular data documenting public perceptions in a […]
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