Employment Location in Cities and Regions

Francesca Pagliara is Assistant Professor at the Department of Transportation Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Michiel de Bok works as a senior analyst at Significance. He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the field of transportation and planning. David Simmonds is a Director of David Simmonds Consultancy Ltd, Cambridge, England. Professor Sir Alan Wilson FBA FRS, best known for his pioneering work on spatial interaction methods and dynamical systems theory in transportation and urban modelling, has joined the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) as Professor of Urban & Regional Systems.

• Preface.- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview.- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches.- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model.- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in TIGRIS XL.- 5 Simulating the Spatial Distribution of Employment in Large Cities: with Applications to Greater London.- 6 Complex Urban Systems Integration: The LEAM Experiences in Coupling Economic, Land Use, and Transportation Models in Chicago, IL.- 7 Employment Location Modelling Within an Integrated Land Use and Transport Framework: Taking Cue from Policy Perspectives.- 8 Integrating SCGE and I-O in Multiregional Modelling.-  9 Interjurisdictional Competition and Land Development: A Micro-Level Analysis.- Part II: Micro-Scale Approaches.- 10 Occupation, Education and Social Inequalities: a Case Study Linking Survey Data Sources to an Urban Microsimulation Analysis.- 11 Firm location choice vs. job location choice in microscopic simulation models.- 12 Modelling Firm Failure: Towards Building a Firmographic Microsimulation Model.- 13 Choice set formation in microscopic firm location models.- 14 Employment Location Models: Conclusions.

From the book reviews: "This book constitutes a highly welcome addition to the literature concerned with the modeling of the spatial distribution of employment. ... The volume also stands out in the ways in which the various chapters combine detailed descriptions of particular models with their applications to specific cities or regions, thus making the book an interesting read for those with a focus on the design of comprehensive employment location models as well as those rather concerned with their applications in different contexts." (Kristin Kronenberg, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 54 (2), March, 2014)