Christopher D Higgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 957882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher D Higgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher D |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3551-7750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Person-based aggregate space-time accessibility (Pasta)
Accessibility is the potential to interact with opportunities. Place-based measures of accessibility, such as gravity-type measures, have been widely applied to compute the opportunities accessible when traveling from a given origin and reflect aggregate geographic patterns of access across a city or region. Despite this, place-based measures are criticized for lacking a consideration of individual-level space-time constraints, which can result i…
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 …
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…
Beyond distance
An age-inclusive built environment is essential for promoting an accessible food landscape for the elderly population. However, previous research has focused on least-distance/time travel metrics in a 2D environment, potentially overlooking travelers' physical constraints and underestimating actual walking distances. In contrast, this study employs advanced geocomputational methods that leverage 3D building models, 3D pedestrian networks, and ele…
What's a School Worth to a Neighborhood? A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of Property Prices in the Context of Accommodation Reviews in Ontario
Due to a change in capital funding formula, many school boards across the Province of Ontario engaged in Accommodation Reviews to rationalize the supply of school capacity. This process led to numerous school closures and raised important policy questions regarding the economic value of a school in terms of its capitalization into property values and, by extension, how the closure of a school might affect local neighborhoods. To explore these que…
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…
Public transport access to drug treatment before and during Covid-19
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit
Correlates of bicycling trip flows in Hamilton, Ontario
Accessibility to primary care physicians
Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder
Urban volumetrics
While cities have become gradually more vertical and complex over the past century, our methods for conceptualising their characteristics and measuring their forms and functions are still largely based in a horizontal mindset. Recent work has sought to shift urban discourse towards understanding cities according to their volumetric properties. Moving the debate further, this paper approaches volumetric urbanism from a morphological perspective, s…
Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during Covid-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario
Comparing distance, time, and metabolic energy cost functions for walking accessibility in infrastructure-poor regions
Accessibility, air pollution, and congestion
All minutes are not equal
Rapid transit, transit-oriented development, and the contextual sensitivity of land value uplift in Toronto
Rapid transit projects that increase accessibility should result in a localised land value uplift (LVU) benefit for locations near stations. A rich history of research has tested this hypothesis, generally operationalising transit accessibility by proxy through distance from a transit station. However, a growing body of research has also demonstrated LVU effects from transit-oriented development (TOD) as individuals sort themselves into locations…
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
A latent class method for classifying and evaluating the performance of station area transit-oriented development in the Toronto region
Excess commuting
A latent class method for classifying and evaluating the performance of station area transit-oriented development in the Toronto region
Rapid transit, transit-oriented development, and the contextual sensitivity of land value uplift in Toronto
Rapid transit projects that increase accessibility should result in a localised land value uplift (LVU) benefit for locations near stations. A rich history of research has tested this hypothesis, generally operationalising transit accessibility by proxy through distance from a transit station. However, a growing body of research has also demonstrated LVU effects from transit-oriented development (TOD) as individuals sort themselves into locations…
Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during Covid-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario
Accessibility, air pollution, and congestion
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
Urban volumetrics
While cities have become gradually more vertical and complex over the past century, our methods for conceptualising their characteristics and measuring their forms and functions are still largely based in a horizontal mindset. Recent work has sought to shift urban discourse towards understanding cities according to their volumetric properties. Moving the debate further, this paper approaches volumetric urbanism from a morphological perspective, s…
Comparing distance, time, and metabolic energy cost functions for walking accessibility in infrastructure-poor regions
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…
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit
Accessibility to primary care physicians
Excess commuting
A latent class method for classifying and evaluating the performance of station area transit-oriented development in the Toronto region
All minutes are not equal
Rapid transit, transit-oriented development, and the contextual sensitivity of land value uplift in Toronto
Rapid transit projects that increase accessibility should result in a localised land value uplift (LVU) benefit for locations near stations. A rich history of research has tested this hypothesis, generally operationalising transit accessibility by proxy through distance from a transit station. However, a growing body of research has also demonstrated LVU effects from transit-oriented development (TOD) as individuals sort themselves into locations…
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
Comparing distance, time, and metabolic energy cost functions for walking accessibility in infrastructure-poor regions
Accessibility, air pollution, and congestion
Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder
Urban volumetrics
While cities have become gradually more vertical and complex over the past century, our methods for conceptualising their characteristics and measuring their forms and functions are still largely based in a horizontal mindset. Recent work has sought to shift urban discourse towards understanding cities according to their volumetric properties. Moving the debate further, this paper approaches volumetric urbanism from a morphological perspective, s…
Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during Covid-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario
Correlates of bicycling trip flows in Hamilton, Ontario
Accessibility to primary care physicians
Public transport access to drug treatment before and during Covid-19
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit
Beyond distance
An age-inclusive built environment is essential for promoting an accessible food landscape for the elderly population. However, previous research has focused on least-distance/time travel metrics in a 2D environment, potentially overlooking travelers' physical constraints and underestimating actual walking distances. In contrast, this study employs advanced geocomputational methods that leverage 3D building models, 3D pedestrian networks, and ele…
What's a School Worth to a Neighborhood? A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of Property Prices in the Context of Accommodation Reviews in Ontario
Due to a change in capital funding formula, many school boards across the Province of Ontario engaged in Accommodation Reviews to rationalize the supply of school capacity. This process led to numerous school closures and raised important policy questions regarding the economic value of a school in terms of its capitalization into property values and, by extension, how the closure of a school might affect local neighborhoods. To explore these que…
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…
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 …
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…
Person-based aggregate space-time accessibility (Pasta)
Accessibility is the potential to interact with opportunities. Place-based measures of accessibility, such as gravity-type measures, have been widely applied to compute the opportunities accessible when traveling from a given origin and reflect aggregate geographic patterns of access across a city or region. Despite this, place-based measures are criticized for lacking a consideration of individual-level space-time constraints, which can result i…
Geography (14 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (13 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Transport engineering (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public transport (7 works) · Transportation Planning and Optimization (6 works)