Chris Higgins

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

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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...