Would you rather have good access to destinations by transit or by car? In a study of real estate prices across Canada, @higgicd.bsky.social and team found that despite the ubiquity of cars, good *transit* access is a bigger driver of housing prices than good car access. 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/2469...

Reuniting spatial interaction and accessibility 🌐blog post: www.urbandemographics.org/post/reuniti... A new study (preprint) with @soukhova.bsky.social , @higgicd.bsky.social and Antonio Paez 🗺️📏 📑Preprint: osf.io/a9dxb_v1

Just finished a PhD and looking for a wonderul PostDoc opportunity? Look no further, adn join us at #unimelb with a McKenzie Fellowship sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun... #GIScience #GIS #geospatial #geography pls Re-Skeet

Big turnout for @uoft.bsky.social Department of Geography and Planning Bousfield Visiting Professor @urbandemog.bsky.social ‘s "A Crash Course on Urban Accessibility with R" today!

Well, I owe the Detroit People Mover an apology. While I may have used it as an example of failed transit-as-revitalization projects and snickered at its one-way loop, I made something like 10 trips using the DPM last week at the #AAG2025 and it was great fun.

Proud supervisor moment watching Robert Arku present the results from our paper “Multimodal Accessibility Premiums in Housing Prices Across Canada” at this year’s #TRBAM co-authored with Steven Farber and Eric J. Miller

Alternative (accelerating) Financing and Procurement has been a disaster

This alarming trend of cost escalation is echoed throughout Canada, and the English-speaking world. Meanwhile, in other developed nations, transit construction costs have stayed lockstep with the rate of inflation - a clear sign that project delivery practices are at fault. 4/

Ok… 😅 - Zamboni driver - roof truss builder - concrete tester - kindergarten teacher

Travel behaviour and the 15-min City: Access intensity, sufficiency, and non-work car use in Toronto doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

As a fan of multiprocessing, swapping out R’s math libraries for optimized versions really cuts down on the run time for large spatial models! higgicd.github.io/posts/accele...