Slow Transit: Finch West – Christopher D. Higgins

A bit of fun with accessibility analysis now that the Finch West LRT is in the TTC's GTFS data.

The TLDR? Some blocks gain access vs 2018 buses, but slow speeds mean gains are limited while some blocks actually lose access with “rapid” transit...

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 associ...

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. 🧵

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Reuniting spatial interaction and accessibility | Urban Demographics

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!

Love that ICTS history too, bring back Ontario’s Urban Transportation Development Corporation! 🚝🚝🚝

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.
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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

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Christopher D. Higgins - Accelerating R

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...