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Steven Farber
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Latest funding
- $3,615,824
Mobility Network Research Consortium
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $35,700
Transit, Telework, and Housing Markets: Investigating Locational Preferences for Transit-oriented Development in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Canadian Cities
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $64,200
Transit, Telework, and Housing Markets: Investigating Locational Preferences for Transit-oriented Development in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Canadian Cities
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Mobility Network Research Consortium
Principal investigators: Farber, Steven
Keywords: Transportation systems and services; Construction, urban and rural planning
Transit, Telework, and Housing Markets: Investigating Locational Preferences for Transit-oriented Development in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Canadian Cities
Principal investigators: Higgins, Christopher D.
Keywords: housing; transportation; land use; urban form; real estate; telework; transitoriented development; spatial analysis; geographic information systems
Transit, Telework, and Housing Markets: Investigating Locational Preferences for Transit-oriented Development in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Canadian Cities
Principal investigators: Higgins, Christopher D.
Keywords: housing; transportation; land use; urban form; real estate; telework; transitoriented development; spatial analysis; geographic information systems
Mobilizing Justice: Bridging Social Equity and Emerging Mobility Technologies
Principal investigators: Farber, Steven
Keywords: transportation; justice; equity; mobility; technology
Preparing Society for 21st Century Mobility: Measuring the Costs and Benefits of On-Demand Transit Services in Belleville, Ontario
Principal investigators: Farber, Steven
Keywords: public transit; on-demand transit pilot; travel behaviour; activity participation; transport-related social exclusion
Time, geography, and food: how time use, social-spatial context, transportation options, and personal economics affect access to food in cities
Principal investigators: Widener, Michael J.
Keywords: food environments; transportation; access; accessibility; mobility; time use; spatiotemporal constraints; geographic information systems; GPS; urban geography
Considering the role of time pressure and geography in food shopping and dietary behaviours
Principal investigators: Widener, Michael J
Keywords: Food Accessibility; Food Deserts; Food Insecurity; Nutrition; Socioeconomic Factors; Time Pressure; Time Use; Transportation And Health; Urban Areas
Transportation barriers and access to destinations
Principal investigators: Farber, Steven
The DataMobile partnership: an open platform for spatialized data collection and analysis
Principal investigators: Patterson, Zachary
Keywords: big data; open source; smartphone applications; emerging data collection methods; travel surveys; data inference
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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