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Overview

Paul Waddell is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and engineering, with notable focus on transportation and urban systems.

Their work concentrates on several interrelated subfields, including transportation, building and construction, economics and econometrics, control and systems engineering, and demography. Main topics covered by their research include transportation planning and optimization, urban transport and accessibility, human mobility and location-based analysis, traffic prediction and management techniques, traffic control and management, housing market and economics, as well as demographic modeling and climate adaptation.

Waddell has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances in the Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board and arXiv (Cornell University). Other venues include the AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, and Transportmetrica A Transport Science.

  1. Assessing the Value of Urban Air Mobility through Metropolitan-Scale Microsimulation: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area (2021, AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM)
  2. SimUAM: A Toolchain to Integrate Ground and Air to Evaluate Urban Air Mobility's Impact on Travel Behavior (2022, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum)
  3. A Comparison of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Rents in the San Francisco Bay Area (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  4. Microsimulation analysis for network traffic assignment (MANTA) at metropolitan-scale for agile transportation planning (2021, Transportmetrica A Transport Science)
  5. Demographic Microsimulator for Integrated Urban Systems: Adapting Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to Capture the Continuum of Life (2025, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board)

Frequent co-authors with whom Waddell has collaborated include Pavan Yedavalli, Emin Burak Onat, Xin Peng, Raja Sengupta, and Vishwanath Bulusu.

  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM
  • AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
  • Transportmetrica A Transport Science

  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

  • Transportation
  • Building and Construction
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Demography

  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Traffic control and management
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • demographic modeling and climate adaptation

Best Publications

  • UrbanSim: Modeling Urban Development for Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Planning

    Paul Waddell

  • Microsimulation of Urban Development and Location Choices: Design and Implementation of UrbanSim

    P. Waddell;A. Borning;M. Noth;N. Freier

  • Factors affecting the adoption of vehicle sharing systems by young drivers

    Dimitrios Efthymiou;Dimitrios Efthymiou;Constantinos Antoniou;Paul Waddell

  • An integrated urban development and ecological simulation model

    Marina Alberti;Paul Waddell

  • Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning and Modelling: Addressing Challenges in Research and Practice

    Paul Waddell

  • Modeling the choice continuum: An integrated model of residential location, auto ownership, bicycle ownership, and commute tour mode choice decisions

    Abdul Rawoof Pinjari;Ram M. Pendyala;Chandra R. Bhat;Paul A. Waddell

  • Incorporating land use in metropolitan transportation planning

    Paul Waddell;Gudmundur Freyr Ulfarsson;Joel Franklin;John Lobb

  • New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings:

    Geoff Boeing;Paul Waddell

  • Residential Mobility and Location Choice: A Nested Logit Model with Sampling of Alternatives

    Brian H. Y. Lee;Paul Waddell

  • Methodology to Match Distributions of Both Household and Person Attributes in Generation of Synthetic Populations

    Xin Ye;Karthik Charan Konduri;Ram M Pendyala;Bhargava Sana

  • Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice

    Abdul Rawoof Pinjari;Ram M. Pendyala;Chandra R. Bhat;Paul A. Waddell

  • Introduction to Urban Simulation: Design and Development of Operational Models

    Paul Waddell;Gudmundur F Ulfarsson

  • A Behavioral Simulation Model for Metropolitan Policy Analysis and Planning: Residential Location and Housing Market Components of Urbansim

    Paul Waddell

  • Do property values rebound from environmental stigmas? Evidence from Dallas

    Larry Dale;James C. Murdoch;Mark A. Thayer;Paul A. Waddell

  • Modelling the appearance and behaviour of urban spaces

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Peter Wonka;Pascal Müller

  • Exogenous Workplace Choice in Residential Location Models: Is the Assumption Valid?

    Paul Waddell

  • Residential property values in a multinodal urban area: New evidence on the implicit price of location

    Paul Waddell;Brian J. L. Berry;Irving Hoch

  • Discrete choice models with capacity constraints: an empirical analysis of the housing market of the greater Paris region

    André de Palma;Nathalie Picard;Paul Waddell

  • Inverse design of urban procedural models

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Ignacio Garcia-Dorado;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

  • Firm location and land use in discrete urban space

    Vibhooti Shukla;Paul Waddell

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. L. Berry
Brian J. L. Berry The University of Texas at Dallas
Stephane Hess
Stephane Hess University of Leeds
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Kevin J. Krizek
Kevin J. Krizek University of Colorado Boulder
Peter H. Kahn
Peter H. Kahn University of Washington

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