Below is a list of papers, reports, and presentations from the UrbanSim group, with links to the documents in pdf format.

Contents

Opus and UrbanSim 4 documentation:

Recommendations

For readers who want a general overview of urban simulation modeling, we suggest:

Paul Waddell and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Introduction to Urban Simulation: Design and Development of Operational Models. In Handbook in Transport, Volume 5: Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, Stopher, Button, Kingsley, Hensher eds. Pergamon Press, 2004, pages 203-236.

For readers who want an overview of the UrbanSim system, we suggest:

Paul Waddell, Liming Wang, and Xuan Liu. UrbanSim: An Evolving Planning Support System for Evolving Communities..  Preprint of paper forthcoming in Planning Support Systems, edited by Richard Brail. Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.

Paul Waddell, UrbanSim: Modeling Urban Development for Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Planning. Preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 68 No. 3, Summer 2002, pages 297-314.

For readers interested in embedding urban simulation in a deliberative political context, we suggest:

Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, and Ruth Förster, UrbanSim: Using Simulation to Inform Public Deliberation and Decision-Making (preprint). In Digital Government: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation, Hsinchun Chen et al. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2008.

For readers who want more technical details, we suggest:

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Michael Noth, Nathan Freier, Michael Becke and Gudmundur Ulfarsson, Microsimulation of Urban Development and Location Choices: Design and Implementation of UrbanSim. Preprint of an article that appeared in Networks and Spatial Economics, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2003, pages 43--67.

Research Papers

Papers are listed in reverse chronological order within each category.

Urban Modeling, Planning and Policy Analysis

2008

Paul Waddell, Liming Wang, and Xuan Liu. UrbanSim: An Evolving Planning Support System for Evolving Communities..  Preprint of paper forthcoming in Planning Support Systems, edited by Richard Brail. Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.

Abdul Pinjari, Ram Pendyala, Chandra Bhat, Paul Waddell. Modeling Residential Sorting Effects to Understand the Impact of the Built Environment on Mode Choice..  Preprint of paper forthcoming in Transportation.

HyungTai Kim, Paul Waddell, Venkataraman N. Shankar and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson. Exploring the Applicability of a Zero-Inflated Count Model to Predict Micro-scale Employment Location Patterns in the Puget Sound Region (the link was removed per the publication policy of the Blackwell). Preprint of paper published in Geographical Analysis, 2008, Vol. 40, (123-151).

Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, and Ruth Förster, UrbanSim: Using Simulation to Inform Public Deliberation and Decision-Making (preprint). In Digital Government: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation, Hsinchun Chen et al. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2008.

2007

Paul Waddell, Chandra Bhat, Naveen Eluru, Liming Wang, Ram Pendyala, Modeling the Interdependence in Household Residence and Workplace Choices.  preprint of paper published in Transport, 2007, Vol. 2003 (84-92).

Andre de Palma, Nathalie Picard and Paul Waddell, Discrete Choice Models with Capacity Constraints: An Empirical Analysis of the Housing Market of the Greater Paris Region.  preprint of paper published in Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, Vol. 62 (204-230).

Andre de Palma, Kiarash Motamedi, Nathalie Picard and Paul Waddell, Accessibility and Environmental Quality: Inequality in the Paris Housing Market.  preprint of paper published in European Transport, 2007, No. 36, (47-64).

Paul Waddell, Gudmundur Freyr Ulfarsson, Joel Franklin, John Britting, Incorporating Land Use in Transportation Planning.  preprint of paper published in Transportation Research Part A, 2007, Vol. 41 (382-410).

Hana Ševčíková, Adrian Raftery, Paul Waddell. Assessing Uncertainty in Urban Simulations Using Bayesian Melding. Preprint of paper published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodology, 2007, Vol. 41, No. 6 (652-659).

2006

Paul Waddell, Reconciling Household Residential Location Choices and Neighborhood Dynamics. Working paper, 2006.

2005

Paul Waddell, Hana Ševčíková, David Socha, Eric Miller, Kai Nagel, Opus: An Open Platform for Urban Simulation.  Presented at the Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management Conference, June, 2005, London, U.K.

Paul Waddell, Confronting the Bane of Endogeneity in Modelling Urban Social Dynamics.  Paper presented at the Workshop on Modelling Urban Social Dynamics, University of Surrey, April 7-8, 2005.

Franklin, Joel P.  The Equity Effects of Roadway Tolls: An Application of Hicksian Welfare Measures with Income Effects. Paper presented as a poster at the 11th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Kyoto, Japan. August, 2005.

Franklin, Joel P.  Nonparametric Distributional Analysis of a Transportation Policy: Stockholm's Congestion Pricing Trial. Paper presented as a poster at the Transportation Research Board 84th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. 2005.

Franklin, Joel P.  A Non-Parametric Analysis of Welfare Redistribution: The Case of Stockholm's Congestion Pricing Trial, Submitted to Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2005.

Franklin, Joel P.  The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies : A Research Design for the Case of Roadway Tolls. Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 47th Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO. 2005.

2004

Paul Waddell, Urban Simulation at the Intra-Metropolitan Scale: Model Design and Application in the Central Puget Sound Region.  Paper presented at The State of the Art in Regional and Urban Modeling, Seville,Spain, October 20-24, 2004.

Paul Waddell and Alan Borning, A Case Study in Digital Government: Developing and Applying UrbanSim, a System for Simulating Urban Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Impacts, preprint of an article that appeard in Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 22 No. 1, February 2004, pages 37-51.

Paul Waddell and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Introduction to Urban Simulation: Design and Development of Operational Models. In Handbook in Transport, Volume 5: Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, Stopher, Button, Kingsley, Hensher eds. Pergamon Press, 2004, pages 203-236.

2003

Paul Waddell and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Dynamic Simulation of Real Estate Development and Land Prices within an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model System. Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-16, 2003, Washington, D.C.

Paul Waddell and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Accessibility and Agglomeration: Discrete-Choice Models of Employment Location by Industry Sector. Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-16, 2003, Washington, D.C.

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Michael Noth, Nathan Freier, Michael Becke and Gudmundur Ulfarsson, Microsimulation of Urban Development and Location Choices: Design and Implementation of UrbanSim. Preprint of an article that appeared in Networks and Spatial Economics, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2003, pages 43--67.

2002

Joel Franklin, Paul Waddell, and John Britting, Sensitivity Analysis Approach for an Integrated Land Development & Travel Demand Modeling System, Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 44th Annual Conference, November 21-24, 2002, Baltimore, MD.

Paul Waddell and Firouzeh Nourzad, Incorporating Non-motorized Mode and Neighborhood Accessibility in an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model System, March 2002. To appear, Transportation Research Record.

Paul Waddell, UrbanSim: Modeling Urban Development for Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Planning. Preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 68 No. 3, Summer 2002, pages 297-314.

2001

Paul Waddell, Analytical Tools for Land Use, Transportation, and Growth Management, submitted for publication.

Paul Waddell, Maren Outwater, Chandra Bhat, and Larry Blain, Design of an Integrated Land Use and Activity-Based Travel Model System for the Puget Sound Region, November 2001, submitted for publication in the Transportation Research Record.

Paul Waddell, Between Politics and Planning: UrbanSim as a Decision Support System for Metropolitan Planning, in Building urban planning support systems: combining information, models, visualization Klosterman, R. and R. Brail (eds), 2001. Center for Urban Policy Research.

2000

Marina Alberti and Paul Waddell, An Integrated Urban Development and Ecological Simulation Model, 2000, Integrated Assessment, In Press.

Paul Waddell, Monitoring and Simulating Land Capacity at the Parcel Level, in Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems: Theory, Practice and Parcel-Based Approaches, Vernez-Moudon, A. and M. Hubner, eds., 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York.

Paul Waddell, Towards a Behavioral Integration of Land Use and Transportation Modeling, The 9th International Association for Travel Behavior Research Conference, Queensland, Australia, July 2000.

1998

Paul Waddell, Simulating the Effects of Metropolitan Growth Management Strategies, Working Paper presented at the 1998 Conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, New York, October 1998, and the 1998 Conference of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pasadena, November 1998.

Paul Waddell, The Oregon Prototype Metropolitan Land Use Model, Proceedings of the 1998 ASCE Conference Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality: Making the Connection, Portland, Oregon, May 1998.

Paul Waddell, Terry Moore, and Sharon Edwards, Exploiting Parcel-Level GIS for Land Use Modeling, Proceedings of the 1998 ASCE Conference Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality: Making the Connection, Portland, Oregon, May 1998.

Paul Waddell, An Urban Simulation Model for Integrated Policy Analysis and Planning: Residential Location and Housing Market Components of UrbanSim, Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Transport Research, Antwerp, Belgium July 12-17, 1998.

Paul Waddell and Marina Alberti, Integration of an Urban Simulation Model and an Urban Ecosystems Model, Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Environmental Systems with Geographical Information Systems, Hong Kong, June 22-25, 1998.

Value Sensitive Design and Participatory Design

Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian Gill, Peter Kahn, Travis Kriplean, and Peyina Lin, Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montréal, Canada, May 2008.

Janet Davis, Engaging and Informing Citizens with Household Indicators, Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), January 2008.

Janet Davis, Peyina Lin, Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Peter Kahn, and Paul Waddell, "Simulations for Urban Planning: Designing for Human Values," IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Urban Computing, Vol. 39 No. 9, September 2006, pages 66-72. pdf available from IEEE Xplore.

Janet Davis, Value Sensitive Design of Interactions with UrbanSim Indicators, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, August 2006.

Janet Davis, Household Indicators: Design to Inform and Engage Citizens.  ACM CHI 2006 Extended Abstracts, April 2006.

Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Janet Davis, and Peyina Lin, Informing Public Deliberation: Value Sensitive Design of Indicators for a Large-Scale Urban Simulation.  Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Paris, September 2005.

Alan Borning and Janet Davis, Three Contexts of Appropriation for an Urban Simulation System.  Position paper for the Workshop on "Supporting Appropriation Work: Approaches for the 'reflective' user", 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Paris, September 2005.

Batya Friedman, Peter Kahn, and Alan Borning, Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems, version of October 2005. In Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems: Foundations, P. Zhang & D. Galletta (eds.). An earlier version of this paper is published as Batya Friedman, Peter Kahn, and Alan Borning, Value Sensitive Design: Theory and Methods, UW CSE Technical Report 02-12-01, December 2002. (However, the October 2005 version is recommended instead.) For more information on Value Sensitive Design, please see www.ischool.washington.edu/vsd.

Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, and Peter Kahn, Designing for Human Values in an Urban Simulation System: Value Sensitive Design and Participatory Design. Short paper presented at the Eighth Biennial Participatory Design Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2004.

Paul Waddell and Alan Borning, Participatory Design of an Integrated Land Use - Transportation Modeling System: First Steps, Poster presentation at The fifth biennial Participatory Design Conference, Seattle, Washington, November 1998.

Programming Languages and Software Engineering

Alan Borning, Hana Ševčíková, and Paul Waddell, A Domain-Specific Language for Urban Simulation Variables, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montréal, Canada, May 2008.

Hana Ševčíková, Alan Borning, David Socha, and Wolf-Gideon Bleek, Automated Testing of Stochastic Systems: A Statistically Grounded Approach, Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Portland, Maine, July 2006.

David Socha, Skip Walter, Is Designing Software Different From Designing Other Things? Presented at the Mudd Design Workshop V, Claremont, CA, May 2005.  Also in International Journal of Engineering Education; Special Issue: Learning and Engineering Design, Vol. 22 No. 3, 2006.

David Socha, Aikido and Software Engineering. Presented at SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, Newport Beach, CA, November 2004.

Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Alan Borning, YP and Urban Simulation: Applying an Agile Programming Methodology in a Politically Tempestuous Domain. Proceedings of the 2003 Agile Development Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2003. (Presentation slides)

David Socha, Valentin Razmov, and Elizabeth Davis, Teaching Reflective Skills in an Engineering Course. Presented at ASEE 2003 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2003.

David Socha, Valentin Razmov, and Elizabeth Davis, When Conflict Helps Learning. Presented at ASEE 2003 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2003.

Michael Noth, Alan Borning, and Paul Waddell, An Extensible, Modular Architecture for Simulating Urban Development, Transportation, and Environmental Impacts. Preprint of an article that appeared in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 27 No. 2, March 2003, pages 181--203. An earlier version, with less contextual material and some more technical material, appears as UW CSE Technical Report 2000-12-01.

Human Computer Interaction and Visualization

Yael Schwartzman and Alan Borning, The Indicator Browser: A Web-Based Interface for Visualizing UrbanSim Simulation Results. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS 40), January 2007.

A.J. Bernheim Brush and Alan Borning, `Today' Messages: Lightweight Support for Small Group Awareness via Email. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS 38), January 2005.

A.J. Bernheim Brush, Morgan Ames and Janet Davis, A Comparison of Synchronous Remote and Local Usability Studies for an Expert Interface . ACM CHI 2004 Extended Abstracts, April 2004.

A.J. Bernheim Brush and Alan Borning, `Today' Messages: Lightweight Group Awareness via Email. ACM CHI 2003 Extended Abstracts, April 2003.

Karolin Jonsson, A User Interface for Benefit-Cost Analysis -- A Tool for Evaluating Simulations of Urban Development.  Masters thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.  (Thesis work done with the UrbanSim group.)

L. Denise Pinnel, Matthew Dockrey, A.J. Bernheim Brush, and Alan Borning, Design of Visualizations for Urban Modeling, VisSym '00: Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 29-31, 2000.

L. Denise Pinnel, Matthew Dockrey, Alan Borning, Design and Understanding of Visualizations for Urban Modeling, Technical Report UW-CSE 99-12-01, University of Washington, December 1999

Reports

Alan Borning and Paul Waddell, UrbanSim: Interaction and Participation in Integrated Urban Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Modeling, to appear in the "Project Highlights" section of the Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 2006.

Paul Waddell, Ellen Loy Schroer, and Maren Outwater, Assessment of Model Requirements: Final Report to the Puget Sound Regional Council on Land Use and Travel Demand Forecasting Models, 2001. Available at www.psrc.org/datapubs/pubs/model_modelrequirements.pdf

Paul Waddell, Chandra Bhat, Earl Ruiter, Shlomo Bekhor, Maren Outwater, and Ellen Loy Schroer, Review of the Literature and Operational Models: Final Report to the Puget Sound Regional Council on Land Use and Travel Demand Forecasting Models, 2001. Available at www.psrc.org/datapubs/pubs/model_review.pdf

Paul Waddell, Maren Outwater and Chandra Bhat, Recommendations for Integrated Land Use and Travel Models: Final Report to the Puget Sound Regional Council on Land Use and Travel Demand Forecasting Models, 2001. Available at www.psrc.org/datapubs/pubs/model_designrecommendations.pdf

Presentations and System Demonstrations

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Hana Ševčíková, Recent Developments in OPUS/UrbanSim. Presented at the 1st European UrbanSim User Group Meeting, Zurich, March 2008.

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Hana Ševčíková, David Socha, Opus (the Open Platform for Urban Simulation) and UrbanSim 4. System demonstration to be presented at the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 2006.

Alan Borning and Paul Waddell, Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Modeling: Recent Research and Future Directions, Colloquium, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Nov 6, 2001. On-demand video; html version of slides; pdf file of slides