NECTAR-ERSA SESSIONS (50th ERSA Congress, Jönköping, Sweden August 19 –
23, 2010):
a) Commuting, Migration, Housing and Labour Markets: Complex Interactions
This special session will have an interdisciplinary character and provide an
opportunity for researchers to discuss their ongoing research evolving around
commuting, migration, housing and labour markets.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Modelling migration and commuting
• Labour market shocks, housing markets and the offsetting effects of
commuting
• Spatial job search
• Human capital flows and sorting
• How do housing and labour markets affect the attractiveness of cities?
Please submit your abstract and direct any enquiries - by 11 January 2010 - to
the session Organizers: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
b) Accessibility and Spatial Patterns
Topics of interest include (not exhaustively):
Accessibility analysis and modelling; Accessibility and mobility decisions;
Accessibility and territorial cohesion; Accessibility for places and people;
Accessibility and integrative planning.
Please submit your abstract and direct any enquiries - by 15 January 2010 - to
the session Organizers (Andrea de Montis, Aura Reggiani and Gebhard
Wulfhorst) at: [log in to unmask]
c) High-Speed Rail as a New Transport Network
Relevant topics include:
Does HSR contribute to (local or regional) economic development or only to
redistribution of it;
Who get access and use HSR services (and for what purposes) and who do
not;
Mode substitution and traffic generation effects of HSR operation across the
transport network; (surface and air networks)
Changes in accessibility across the transport network as a result of HSR
development
(HSR) station location, its integration with the urban transport network and its
impact on local urban development
Please submit your abstract and direct any enquiries - by 15 January 2010 - to
the session Organizers:
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