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Steven Farber is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Engineering, with a strong focus on Transportation. Subfields of study include Transportation, Automotive Engineering, Building and Construction, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work investigates key topics such as Urban Transport and Accessibility, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Urban and Freight Transport Logistics, Traffic and Road Safety, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Housing Market and Economics.

Steven Farber has contributed to numerous scholarly articles published in well-known venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Transportation
  • Findings
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Cities

The list of recent papers authored or co-authored by Farber features:

  • "Riders Who Avoided Public Transit During COVID-19" (2021), Journal of the American Planning Association
  • "Suburbanization of Transport Poverty" (2021), Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity" (2024), Transportation
  • "Facing the future of transit ridership: shifting attitudes towards public transit and auto ownership among transit riders during COVID-19" (2022), Transportation
  • "Eliminating barriers to nighttime activity participation: the case of on-demand transit in Belleville, Canada" (2021), Transportation

Steven Farber collaborates regularly with a set of coauthors who frequently appear in their research outputs. These include Michael J. Widener, Matthew Palm, Yixue Zhang, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, and Christopher D. Higgins.

Best Publications

  • Temporal variability in transit-based accessibility to supermarkets

    Steven Farber;Melinda Z. Morang;Michael J. Widener

  • Relative Accessibility Deprivation Indicators for Urban Settings: Definitions and Application to Food Deserts in Montreal

    Antonio Páez;Ruben Gertes Mercado;Steven Farber;Catherine Morency

  • The who, why, and when of Uber and other ride-hailing trips: An examination of a large sample household travel survey

    Mischa Young;Steven Farber

  • Identifying public transport gaps using time-dependent accessibility levels

    Koos Fransen;Tijs Neutens;Steven Farber;Philippe De Maeyer

  • A Simulation-Based Study of Geographically Weighted Regression as a Method for Investigating Spatially Varying Relationships

    Antonio Páez;Steven Farber;David Wheeler

  • Distance traveled in three Canadian cities: Spatial analysis from the perspective of vulnerable population segments

    Catherine Morency;Antonio Paez;Matthew J. Roorda;Ruben Mercado

  • Accessibility to health care facilities in Montreal Island: an application of relative accessibility indicators from the perspective of senior and non-senior residents.

    Antonio Paez;Ruben G Mercado;Steven Farber;Catherine Morency

  • Spatiotemporal accessibility to supermarkets using public transit: an interaction potential approach in Cincinnati, Ohio

    Michael J. Widener;Steven Farber;Tijs Neutens;Mark Horner

  • A systematic investigation of cross-validation in GWR model estimation: empirical analysis and Monte Carlo simulations

    Steven Farber;Antonio Páez

  • Planning transport for social inclusion: An accessibility-activity participation approach

    Jeff Allen;Steven Farber

  • Moving Window Approaches for Hedonic Price Estimation: An Empirical Comparison of Modelling Techniques:

    Antonio Páez;Fei Long;Steven Farber

  • Sizing up transport poverty: A national scale accounting of low-income households suffering from inaccessibility in Canada, and what to do about it

    Jeff Allen;Steven Farber

  • Using urban commuting data to calculate a spatiotemporal accessibility measure for food environment studies

    Michael J. Widener;Steven Farber;Tijs Neutens;Mark W. Horner

  • Dynamic Public Transit Accessibility Using Travel Time Cubes: Comparing the Effects of Infrastructure (Dis)investments over Time

    Steven Farber;Liwei Fu

  • My car, my friends, and me: a preliminary analysis of automobility and social activity participation

    Steven Farber;Antonio Páez

  • Trip generation of vulnerable populations in three Canadian cities: a spatial ordered probit approach

    Matthew J. Roorda;Antonio Páez;Catherine Morency;Ruben Mercado

  • The Social Interaction Potential of Metropolitan Regions: A Time-Geographic Measurement Approach Using Joint Accessibility

    Steven Farber;Tijs Neutens;Harvey J. Miller;Xiao Li

  • Assessing social equity in distance based transit fares using a model of travel behavior

    Steven Farber;Keith Bartholomew;Xiao Li;Antonio Páez

  • Compact development and preference heterogeneity in residential location choice behaviour: A latent class analysis

    Felix Haifeng Liao;Steven Farber;Reid Ewing

  • Measuring segregation using patterns of daily travel behavior: A social interaction based model of exposure

    Steven Farber;Morton O'Kelly;Harvey J. Miller;Tijs Neutens

  • Potential Path Areas and Activity Spaces in Application: A Review

    Zachary Patterson;Steven Farber

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Páez
Antonio Páez McMaster University
Tijs Neutens
Tijs Neutens Ghent University
Jason A. Gilliland
Jason A. Gilliland University of Western Ontario
Reid Ewing
Reid Ewing University of Utah
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Hadi Jahanshahi
Hadi Jahanshahi Royal Bank of Canada
David M Levinson
David M Levinson University of Sydney
K. Bruce Newbold
K. Bruce Newbold McMaster University

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