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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: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]