This book explores the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems, as key parts of models depicting the flows of people and goods at intra-urban scale, for use in transport planning.

The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In...