Once again, from January 13 to 17, Geography department faculty and students will showcase transportation research at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC (http://www.trb.org/meeting/). Among the many activities our representatives will chair and coordinate sessions and meetings on: In-Depth Analysis of Activity and Travel Behavior; Travel Behavior Research: Highlights from Around the World; Transportation and Economic Development; Activity-Travel- and Time Use Behavior: The Future Has Arrived; Mobility Patterns and Travel Choices of Special Population Groups; and International Research on Social and Economic Factors of Transportation. Val Noronha will chair the meeting of the Spatial Research Subcommittee, ABJ60(3), and Kostas Goulias will chair the meeting of the Task Force ADB60T, Moving Activity-Based Approaches To Practice.
Most important, however, are the two presentations by two of our graduate students. Jarad Beckman will give a paper presentation with title “Immigration, Residential Location, Car Ownership, and Commuting Behavior: Multivariate Latent Class Analysis from California ” and Seo Youn Yoon will give a paper presentation titled “Inequality Assessment Tool for Urban Development Using GIS-Based Accessibility Measures and Fractal Version of Theil’s Index.” (Article contributed by Professor Kostas Goulias.)
