Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Authors; List of Datasets and Program Files; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Literature Review; 2.1 Measuring commuting lengths; 2.2 Explaining commuting by spatial factors; 2.3 Explaining commuting by nonspatial factors; 2.4 MEASURING Wasteful commuting; Chapter 3 Study Area and Data; 3.1 Study area; 3.2 Data sources; 3.3 List of provided data; Chapter 4 Monte Carlo Simulation Method; 4.1 Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation; 4.2 Monte Carlo Simulation in Spatial Analysis
4.3 Monte Carlo Simulation of Resident Workers and JobsStep 1 Exporting Census Tract Boundaries to a Text File in ArcGIS; Step 2 Exporting Census Tract Resident Worker and Job Counts to a Text File in ArcGIS; Step 3 Simulating Origins and Destinations in TSME; 4.4 Monte Carlo Simulation of Commuting Trips; Step 4 Simulating Individual OD Trips in TSME; Chapter 5 Commuting and Land Use; 5.1 Measuring commuting lengths; Step 1 Preparing the Road Network Source Layer; Step 2 Building the Network Dataset in ArcGIS; Step 3 Starting Network Analyst in ArcGIS
Step 4 Computing the Shortest Paths between Origins and Destinations in ArcGISStep 5 Joining ctppFlow to ctppTT Based on Two Common Fields in ArcGIS; Step 6 Calculating the Mean Commuting Time for a Tract in ArcGIS; Step 7 Determining the Origin Tract and Destination Tract for Each Simulated Trip in ArcGIS; Step 8 Joining the Origin Tract ID and Destination Tract ID to the Trip Length for Each Trip; Step 9 Calculating the Mean Commute Distance for a Tract; 5.2 Overall temporal trend of commuting; 5.3 Commuting pattern vs. distance from THE CBD
Step 10 Calculating a Tract's Distance from the CBD in ArcGISStep 11 Running a Regression Model on a Tract's Distance from the CBD and Its Mean Commute Distance and Time; 5.4 Commuting pattern vs. jobs-housing balance; Step 12 Generating 5-Mile Catchment Areas for Tracts in ArcGIS; Step 13 Calculating JWR for Tracts; 5.5 Commuting pattern vs. proximity to jobs; Step 14 Deriving Tract-to-Tract Commuting Trips Based on Simulated Individual Trips; Step 15 Joining the Number of Workers of Origin Tracts (Wi) and Number of Jobs of Destination Tracts (Jj) to ctppFlow_Dist
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Step 3 Adjusting the Travel Times (and Distances) between Tracts
