Farber
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2065 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Farber |
| APELLIDO | Farber |
| FIRMA | FARBER |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3870-5984 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 387 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
What makes people satisfied with their Neighbourhoods? Exploring individual characteristics beyond sociodemographics in Scarborough, Ontario
Neighbourhood satisfaction is a key topic in urban planning due to its impact on well-being and inequality among urban dwellers. While determinants of neighbourhood satisfaction have been studied extensively, less is known about individual characteristics such as travel behaviour, political values, transport barriers, and aspirations, beyond traditional sociodemographics. Additionally, spatial modelling of neighbourhood satisfaction remains under…
What drives you to relocate your home? Investigating preferences and residential mismatching of recent (prior to Covid and during-after Covid) movers in the Greater Toronto Area
This paper presents a survey of homeowners and renters who moved within or into the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada, since January 2016. This timeline covers pre- and during-COVID movers. The survey investigates households’ residential preferences and the potential dissonance between their preferred and actual residential location choices. The respondents are asked to answer questions about their previous and current residences, their housing …
Standards of fairness in the transportation literature
Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity
Exploring equity implications of online grocery, online restaurant delivery and e-shopping service usage in a suburban context
By examining how different demographics engage with online services, researchers and policymakers can better understand patterns and disparities in their access, usability, and engagement. This study explores the factors driving the frequent usage of online services, particularly online grocery shopping, online restaurant delivery, and e-shopping. By utilizing a representative sample of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, collected in 2022, this study …
Urban mobility and carbon emissions
Multimodal Accessibility and the Capitalization of Realized Access by Car and Transit in Housing Prices Across Canada
Although the transportation accessibility benefits afforded by multiple transportation modes play a fundamental role in determining transportation costs and land prices, there are challenges associated with isolating how multimodal accessibility benefits are capitalized into property values. In response, this research extends calibrated gravity-based measures of potential accessibility to employment by car and transit to include mode share propor…
An interdisciplinary hybrid instrument to explore suburban challenges in Canada
Facing the future of transit ridership
Do affluent neighbourhoods pay more for transit access? Exploring the capitalization of employment accessibility within different housing submarkets in Vancouver
Decades of research indicate that accessibility plays a fundamental role in the urban systems of cities by influencing land markets and household location choices. Accessibility is also often positioned as a policy tool in enhancing the well-being of disadvantaged population groups. Considered together, recent research into transportation equity underscores the need to critically investigate the distribution of accessibility with their affordabil…
Evaluating the level of access and equity of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems have witnessed significant growth worldwide, particularly in rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, often implemented through public-private partnerships to foster economic growth. However, the success of such ambitions relies on ensuring equitable transit access for all residents, including those living with poverty or other social disadvantages. The purpose of this study is to explore transit access, …
Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money
Pathways to suburban poverty in nine Canadian metropolitan areas
The suburbanization of poverty has been a concerning trend in many urban regions. While research has described patterns of suburbanization of poverty at regional and neighbourhood levels, there are open questions about how lower-income households have agglomerated in the suburbs in recent history. Is suburban poverty primarily a result of 1) the movement of low-income residents from central to suburban neighbourhoods (e.g., via processes of gentr…
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit
Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision
Geographers and health researchers routinely analyze data on food-related behaviors to understand potential relationships between the food environment and diet. Analytical uncertainties arise, however, from discounting the sequential connections and household coordination of various food tasks. This study employed the time-geographic construct of the project, which is defined as a series of goal-oriented activities conducted by one or more indivi…
Eliminating barriers to nighttime activity participation
Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms
Who's cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on in…
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
Riders Who Avoided Public Transit During Covid-19
Millions of North Americans stopped riding public transit in response to COVID-19. We treat this crisis as a natural experiment to illustrate the importance of public transit in riders’ abilities to access essential destinations. We measured the impacts of riders forgoing transit through a survey of transportation barriers completed by more than 4,000 transit riders in Toronto and Vancouver (Canada). We used Heckman selection models to predict si…
Evaluating the equity implications of ridehailing through a multi-modal accessibility framework
Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use
Suburbanization of Transport Poverty
Many cities have undergone spatial redistributions of low-income populations from central to suburban neighborhoods over the past several decades. A potential negative impact of these trends is that low-income populations are concentrating in more automobile-oriented areas, resulting in increased barriers to daily travel and activity participation, particularly for those who are unable to afford a private vehicle. Accordingly, the objective of th…
Practical Americans
Planning transport for social inclusion
Identifying public transport gaps using time-dependent accessibility levels
Relative Accessibility Deprivation Indicators for Urban Settings
Accessibility research, within the context of the social exclusion dimensions of transport, has provided valuable tools to understand the potential of people to reach daily life activity locations. In this paper, model-based estimates of distance travelled are used to calculate a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility. Multivariate, spatially expanded models produce estimates of distance travelled that are specific to both geographical…
My car, my friends, and me
Spatiotemporal accessibility to supermarkets using public transit
Distance traveled in three Canadian cities
Measuring segregation using patterns of daily travel behavior
Recent advances in transportation geography demonstrate the ability to compute a metropolitan scale metric of social interaction opportunities based on the time-geographic concept of joint accessibility. The method we put forward in this article decomposes the social interaction potential (SIP) metric into interactions within and between social groups, such as people of different race, income level, and occupation. This provides a novel metric of…
Moving Window Approaches for Hedonic Price Estimation
Recognition of the limitations of traditional hedonic models to account for spatial effects has led in recent years to the development and use of spatial econometric and statistical techniques in real estate applications. It seems appropriate, as the number of applications grows, to evaluate the relative ability of some newer approaches in terms of producing accurate spatial predictions. This article compares a selection of techniques to assess t…
Activity Spaces and the Measurement of Clustering and Exposure
Population segregation measurement is a topic of broad interest in the social sciences. In this paper we draw from recent advances in the spatial analysis literature to derive individualized measures of clustering and exposure. Recent research on accessibility has seen a shift from place-based measures to person-based ones. Similarly, the notion of residential clustering and exposure patterns, while typically related to the distribution of popula…
Using urban commuting data to calculate a spatiotemporal accessibility measure for food environment studies
The Social Interaction Potential of Metropolitan Regions
We put forward a method for measuring the social interaction potential of a metropolitan region based on the time-geographic concept of joint accessibility. The metric is sensitive to prevailing land use patterns and commuter flows in the metropolitan region, time budgets, and the spatial distribution of joint activity locations. It is calculated via a geocomputation routine in which a representative subset of after-work, space–time prisms are in…
Measuring when Uber behaves as a substitute or supplement to transit
Urban sprawl and social interaction potential
A Simulation-Based Study of Geographically Weighted Regression as a Method for Investigating Spatially Varying Relationships
Large variability and correlations among the coefficients obtained from the method of geographically weighted regression (GWR) have been identified in previous research. This is an issue that poses a serious challenge for the utility of the method as a tool to investigate multivariate relationships. The objectives of this paper are to assess: (1) the ability of GWR to discriminate between a spatially constant processes and one with spatially vary…
Running to stay in place
Compact development and preference heterogeneity in residential location choice behaviour
The success of compact development depends in part on accurately gauging its public demand and understanding residents’ preferences towards it. Drawing upon a stated-preference survey in the Wasatch Front region in Utah, this paper estimates preferences for compact, walkable and transit-friendly neighbourhoods through the application of a discrete choice experiment. Results derived from a latent class analysis reveal significant heterogeneity in …
Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use
Transportation barriers to Syrian newcomer participation and settlement in Durham Region
The joint effects of census tract poverty and geographic access on late-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 10 US States
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
Constructing a routable retrospective transit timetable from a real-time vehicle location feed and GTFS
Who's cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on in…
Suburbanization of Transport Poverty
Many cities have undergone spatial redistributions of low-income populations from central to suburban neighborhoods over the past several decades. A potential negative impact of these trends is that low-income populations are concentrating in more automobile-oriented areas, resulting in increased barriers to daily travel and activity participation, particularly for those who are unable to afford a private vehicle. Accordingly, the objective of th…
Evaluating public transit services for operational efficiency and access equity
Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision
Geographers and health researchers routinely analyze data on food-related behaviors to understand potential relationships between the food environment and diet. Analytical uncertainties arise, however, from discounting the sequential connections and household coordination of various food tasks. This study employed the time-geographic construct of the project, which is defined as a series of goal-oriented activities conducted by one or more indivi…
Jobs and the Single Parent
In this article, we undertake an analysis of accessibility to jobs from the perspective of single-parent household members. Individuals in this demographic segment are of interest due to the fact they often face the double burden of household and employment responsibilities. A case study of the city of Toronto in Canada, an urban area that has seen an increase in absolute and relative numbers of single-parent households in recent years, is presen…
Violence and Material Class Interests
Designing an integrated knowledge base to support ecosystem services valuation
My car, my friends, and me
Moving Window Approaches for Hedonic Price Estimation
Recognition of the limitations of traditional hedonic models to account for spatial effects has led in recent years to the development and use of spatial econometric and statistical techniques in real estate applications. It seems appropriate, as the number of applications grows, to evaluate the relative ability of some newer approaches in terms of producing accurate spatial predictions. This article compares a selection of techniques to assess t…
Distance traveled in three Canadian cities
Trip generation of vulnerable populations in three Canadian cities
Employment status and commute distance of Canadians with disabilities
Running to stay in place
Relative Accessibility Deprivation Indicators for Urban Settings
Accessibility research, within the context of the social exclusion dimensions of transport, has provided valuable tools to understand the potential of people to reach daily life activity locations. In this paper, model-based estimates of distance travelled are used to calculate a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility. Multivariate, spatially expanded models produce estimates of distance travelled that are specific to both geographical…
Spatial analysis in Canada
A time-use investigation of shopping participation in three Canadian cities
A Simulation-Based Study of Geographically Weighted Regression as a Method for Investigating Spatially Varying Relationships
Large variability and correlations among the coefficients obtained from the method of geographically weighted regression (GWR) have been identified in previous research. This is an issue that poses a serious challenge for the utility of the method as a tool to investigate multivariate relationships. The objectives of this paper are to assess: (1) the ability of GWR to discriminate between a spatially constant processes and one with spatially vary…
Participation and desire
Activity Spaces and the Measurement of Clustering and Exposure
Population segregation measurement is a topic of broad interest in the social sciences. In this paper we draw from recent advances in the spatial analysis literature to derive individualized measures of clustering and exposure. Recent research on accessibility has seen a shift from place-based measures to person-based ones. Similarly, the notion of residential clustering and exposure patterns, while typically related to the distribution of popula…
A Study of Financial Incentives to Reduce Plasma HIV RNA Among Patients in Care
The role of financial incentives in HIV care is not well studied. We conducted a single-site study of monetary incentives for viral load suppression, using each patient as his own control. The incentive size ($100/quarter) was designed to be cost-neutral, offsetting estimated downstream costs averted through reduced HIV transmission. Feasibility outcomes were clinic workflow, patient acceptability, and patient comprehension. Although the study wa…
The joint effects of census tract poverty and geographic access on late-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 10 US States
Using urban commuting data to calculate a spatiotemporal accessibility measure for food environment studies
Urban sprawl and social interaction potential
Jobs and the Single Parent
In this article, we undertake an analysis of accessibility to jobs from the perspective of single-parent household members. Individuals in this demographic segment are of interest due to the fact they often face the double burden of household and employment responsibilities. A case study of the city of Toronto in Canada, an urban area that has seen an increase in absolute and relative numbers of single-parent households in recent years, is presen…
The Social Interaction Potential of Metropolitan Regions
We put forward a method for measuring the social interaction potential of a metropolitan region based on the time-geographic concept of joint accessibility. The metric is sensitive to prevailing land use patterns and commuter flows in the metropolitan region, time budgets, and the spatial distribution of joint activity locations. It is calculated via a geocomputation routine in which a representative subset of after-work, space–time prisms are in…
Temporal variability in transit-based accessibility to supermarkets
Spatiotemporal accessibility to supermarkets using public transit
Potential Path Areas and Activity Spaces in Application
The potential path area (PPA) and activity space (AS) concepts play a central role in the substantial amount of applied research focusing on the quantitative analysis and description of people's spatial behaviour. Given this large literature, and the surprising lack of a formal review of the research, the time is ripe for a systematic review. This paper examines how the key concepts of PPAs and ASs have evolved, how they have been applied, what i…
Measuring segregation using patterns of daily travel behavior
Recent advances in transportation geography demonstrate the ability to compute a metropolitan scale metric of social interaction opportunities based on the time-geographic concept of joint accessibility. The method we put forward in this article decomposes the social interaction potential (SIP) metric into interactions within and between social groups, such as people of different race, income level, and occupation. This provides a novel metric of…
Identifying public transport gaps using time-dependent accessibility levels
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