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SUMMARY:Modelling the Perceived Walking Neighborhood
DTSTART:20190722T110000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Short bio: Ricardo Hurtubia is Assistant Professor at Pontific
 ia Universidad Católica de Chile\, with a dual appointment to the School 
 of Architecture and the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics.
  He is Associate Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Developmen
 t (CEDEUS) and Invited Researcher at the Complex Engineering Systems Insti
 tute (ISCI). He completed his PhD at EPFL (Mathematics) in 2012\, under th
 e supervision of Professor Michel Bierlaire. His research is focused on lo
 cation choice models\, integrated transport and land use models\, accessib
 ility indicators as tools for project and policy evaluation and the use of
  discrete choice models to analyze and improve the design of public spaces
  and infrastructure through the understanding of user behavior.\nAbstract:
  Understanding how individuals define their walking environment is key to 
 measure the role played by the built environment in (dis)encouraging walki
 ng and other active transport modes. This presentation discusses how walka
 bility has been traditionally studied in the scientific literature and pro
 poses a model for the "Perceived Walking Neighborhood". The model is estim
 ated over data from Santiago\, Chile. Results show how socioeconomic chara
 cteristics and land use attributes influence the shape of the walking neig
 hborhood\, opening the possibility to estimate individual-specific accessi
 bility curves. Further research in this subject\, such as the inclusion of
  factors accounting for residential self-selection and spatial dependency\
 , is proposed and discussed.
LOCATION:GC B1 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GCB110
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