Contact Information


Antonio Páez
Associate Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences,
Associate Member of Civil Engineering

Office: General Science Building, Rm 236
Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 26099
Fax: (905) 546-0463
Email: paezha@mcmaster.ca

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Centre for Spatial Analysis

 
Antonio Páez

Antonio Páez: Publications

"Achieving international distinction for creativity, innovation and excellence in geographical, geological and environmental education, research and outreach."

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Books Edited
Reports
Editorial/Special Issues
Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations and Proceedings
Peer Reviewed Contributions to Books
Not Peer Reviewed Contributions to Books
Not Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Not Peer Reviewed Presentations at Meetings
Not Peer Reviewed Posters
Invited Talks and Seminars


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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:


Farber S, Páez A, Mercado RG, Roorda M, Morency C (2009) A time-use investigation of shopping participation in three Canadian cities: Is there evidence of social exclusion? Transportation (revised and resubmitted)

Roorda M, Páez A, Morency C, Mercado RG, Farber S (2009) Trip Generation of Vulnerable Populations in Three Canadian Cities: A Spatial Ordered Probit Approach, Transportation (revised and resubmitted)

Páez A, Mercado RG, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2009) Relative accessibility deprivation indicators for urban settings: Definitions and application to food deserts in Montreal, Urban Studies (accepted)

Ruiz M, López F, Páez A (2009) Testing for Spatial Association of Qualitative Data Using Symbolic Dynamics, Journal of Geographical Systems (in press; doi:10.1007/s10109-009-0100-1) [pdf] [supplementary material]

Morency C, Páez A, Roorda M, Mercado RG, Farber S (2009) Distance Traveled in Three Canadian Cities: Spatial Analysis from the Perspective of Vulnerable Population Segments, Journal of Transport Geography (in press; doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2009.09.013)

Ribeiro A, Antunes A, Páez A (2009) Road accessibility and economic development: Empirical evidence from Portugal based on spatial econometric models, Journal of Transport Geography (in press; doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2009.03.002)

Páez A (2009) Recent research in spatial real estate analysis, Journal of Geographical Systems (in press; doi: 10.1007/s10109-009-0103-y)

Montero JM, Larraz B, Páez A (2009) Estimating Commercial Property Values: An Application of Cokriging with Housing Prices as Ancillary Information, Journal of Geographical Systems (in press; doi:10.1007/s10109-009-0095-7)
Saberton PJ, Páez A, Newbold KB, Heddle NM (2009) Geographical variations in the correlates of blood donor turnout rates: An investigation of Canadian metropolitan areas, International Journal of Health Geographics, 8 (56) (doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-56) [pdf]

Páez A (2009) Spatial analysis of economic systems and land use change, Papers in Regional Science, 88 (2) 251-258

Maoh HF, Kanaroglou PS, Scott DM, Páez A, Newbold KB (2009) IMPACT: An integrated GIS-based model for simulating the consequences of demographic change and population aging on transportation, Computers, Environment, and Urban Planning 33(3) 200-210

Farber S, Páez A (2009) My car, my friends, and me: A preliminary analysis of automobility and social activities, Journal of Transport Geography, 17(3) 216-225 (doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.07.008)

Kanaroglou P, Maoh HF, Newbold KB, Scott, DM, Páez A (2009) A demographic model for small area population projections: an application to the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, Environment and Planning A, 41(4) 964-979

Farber S, Páez A, Volz E (2009) Topology and dependency tests in spatial and network autoregressive models, Geographical Analysis 41 (2) 158-180

Scott DM, Newbold KB, Spinney JEL, Mercado RG, Páez A, Kanaroglou PS (2009) New Insights into Senior Travel Behavior: The Canadian Experience, Growth and Change, 40 (1) 140-168

Mercado RG, Páez A (2009) Determinants of Distance Traveled with a Focus on the Elderly: A Multilevel Analysis in the Hamilton CMA, Canada, Journal of Transport Geography, 17 (1) 65-76 (doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.04.012)



Kanaroglou P, Mercado R, Maoh HF, Páez A, Scott, DM,  Newbold KB (2008) A Policy Simulation Framework for Analyzing Elderly Mobility Issues with Application Using the IMPACT Decision Support System, Transportation Research Record, 2078, 62-71  

Dugundji E, Páez A, Arentze T (2008) Social Networks, Choices, Mobility and Travel, Environment and Planning B, 35 (6) 956-960

Páez A, Scott DM, Volz E (2008) A discrete choice approach to modeling social influence on individual decision making, Environment and Planning B, 35 (6) 1055-1069

Páez A, Scott DM, Volz E (2008) Weight matrices for social influence analysis: An investigation of measurement errors and their effect on model identification and estimation quality, Social Networks 30 (4) 309-317 (doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2008.05.001)

Páez A, Long F, Farber S (2008) Moving Window Approaches for Hedonic Price Estimation: An Empirical Comparison of Modeling Techniques, Urban Studies 45 (8) 1565-1581 [Supplementary Materials]

Mercado R, Páez A, Scott, DM, Kanaroglou P, Newbold KB (2007) Transport Policy in Aging Societies: An International Comparison and Implications for Canada, The Open Transportation Journal 1 (1) 371-396

Farber S, Páez A (2007) A Systematic Investigation of Cross-Validation in GWR Model Estimation: Empirical Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations, Journal of Geographical Systems 9 (4) 1-26 [Supplementary Materials]

Páez A, Scott DM (2007) Social influence on travel behavior: a simulation example of the decision to telecommute, Environment and Planning A, 39 (3) 647-665

Páez A (2007) Spatial Perspectives on Urban Systems: Developments and Directions, Journal of Geographical Systems, 9 (1) 1-6

Páez A, Scott DM, Potoglou D, Kanaroglou PS, Newbold KB (2007) Elderly Mobility: Demographic and Spatial Analysis of Trip Making in the Hamilton CMA, Urban Studies 44 (1) 123-146

Vichiensan V, Páez A, Kawai K, Miyamoto K (2006) Non-Stationary Spatial Interpolation Method for Urban Model Development, Transportation Research Record (1977) 103-111

Páez A (2006) Exploring contextual variations in land use and transport analysis using a probit model with geographical weights, Journal of Transport Geography 14 (3) 167-176

Newbold KB, Scott, DM, Spinney J, Kanaroglou P, Páez A (2005) Travel Behavior within Canada’s Elderly Population: A Cohort Analysis, Journal of Transport Geography, 13 (4) 340-351

Mercado RG, Páez A (2005) Context and Prospects for Integrated Urban Models for Metropolitan Policy Analysis and Planning in Developing Countries: The Case of Metro Manila, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 6 (270) 3744-3759

Páez A (2005) Local Analysis of Spatial Relationships: A Comparison of GWR and the Expansion Method, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3482, pp. 162-172 (doi: 10.1007/11424857_18)

Miyamoto K, Vichiensan V, Shimomura N, Páez A (2004) Discrete Choice Model with Structuralized Spatial Effects for Location Analysis, Transportation Research Record, Travel Demand and Land Use (1898) 183-190

Páez A, Scott DM (2004) Spatial Statistics for Urban Analysis: A Review of Techniques with Examples, GeoJournal 61 (1) 53-67 

Páez A (2004) Network Accessibility and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity in Eastern Asia, Urban Studies 41 (11) 2211-2230

Páez A (2004) Anisotropic variance functions in geographically weighted regression models, Geographical Analysis 36 (4) 299-314

Páez A, Black J, Suthanaya P (2003) A Spatial Analysis of Zonal Journey-to-Work Preference Functions in Sydney, 1961-1996, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 5, pp. 2743-2758

Black J, Páez A, Suthanaya P, (2002), Sustainable Urban Transportation: Performance Indicators and Some Analytical Approaches, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 128 (4) 184-209

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2002) A general framework for estimation and inference of geographically weighted regression models: 2. Spatial association and model specification tests, Environment and Planning A, 34 (5) 883-904

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2002) A general framework for estimation and inference of geographically weighted regression models: 1. Location-specific kernel bandwidths and a test for locational heterogeneity, Environment and Planning A, 34 (4) 733-754

Páez A, Suzuki J (2001) Transportation Impacts on Land Use Change: an Assessment Considering Neighborhood Effects, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 4 (6) 47-59

Páez A, Miyamoto K, Yamada E, Kitazume K (2001) Transportation Network and Accessibility Analysis in Eastern Asia based on a Geographical Information System, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 4 (6) 211-225

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2001) Spatial Association and Heterogeneity Issues in Land Price Models, Urban Studies, 38 (9) 1493-1508

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1999) A Spatial Analysis of External Economies and its Association with Transportation Infrastructure: The Case of Sendai City, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 3 (4) 149-164

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1998) Urbanization and the Urban Heat Island Effect from a Spatial Descriptive Approach, Papers of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Institute of City Planning, 67-72

Miyamoto K, Sugiki N, Uchida T, Páez A (1997) A GIS Based Land-use Model Dealing with Building Types by Small Unit of Land in a Metropolitan Area, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 2 (6) 413 – 429

 

Books edited

Páez A, Le Gallo J, Buliung R, Dall’Erba S, Progress in Spatial Analysis: Theory and Computation, and Thematic Applications, Advances in Spatial Sciences, Springer (in progress)

 

Reports


Páez A, Mercado RJ, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2009) Mobility and Social Exclusion in Canadian Communities: An Empirical Investigation of Opportunity Access and Deprivation from the Perspective of Vulnerable Groups, Report to Policy Research Directorate, Strategic Policy and Research, Human Resources and Social Development Canada [pdf] [slides]


Editorial/Special Issues

2010. New Mobilities of the Old. Tim Schwanen and Antonio Páez (guest editors) Special Issue of Journal of Transport Geography (in progress)

2010. Spatial Analysis in Canada. Steven Farber and Antonio Páez (guest editors) Special Issue of The Canadian Geographer (in progress)

2009. Spatial analysis of economic systems and land use change. Antonio Páez (guest editor) Special Issue of Papers in Regional Science, 88 (2)

2008. Transportation and Social Interaction. Elenna Dugundji, Antonio Páez, Theo Arentze (guest editors) Special Issue of Environment and Planning B, 35 (6)

2007. Spatial Analysis of Urban Systems. Antonio Páez (guest editor), Special Issue of the Journal of Geographical Systems, 9 (1)



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Peer Reviewed Conference presentations and proceedings:

Dam I, Scott DM, Páez A, Wilton R (2010) Exploring Factors Underlying the Decision to Telework, 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10 – 14

Mercado RG, Páez A, Farber S, Roorda M, Morency C (2010) Journey-to-Work in Urban Areas: Explaining Travel Mode Choice of Low-Income Persons in Ontario and Quebec, 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10 – 14

Farber S, Páez A (2010) Employment status and commute distance of Canadians with disabilities, 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10 – 14

Ruminot NA, Páez A, Carrasco JA (2010) Network Topology, Autocorrelation, and Node Vulnerability, 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10 – 14

Farber S, Páez A, Mercado RG, Roorda M, Morency C (2010) Transport and social exclusion: A time-use investigation of shopping participation in three Canadian cities, 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 10 – 14

Roorda M, Páez A, Morency C, Mercado RG, Farber S (2009)Trip Generation of Vulnerable Populations in Three Canadian Cities: A Spatial Ordered Probit Approach, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11 – 15

Morency C, Páez A, Roorda M, Mercado RG, Farber S (2009) Social and Spatial Dimensions of Distance Traveled in Three Canadian Metropolitan Areas, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11 – 15

Páez A, Mercado RG, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2009) At the Intersection Between Opportunities and Travel: Development of a New Indicator of Relative Accessibility, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11 – 15

Páez A, Habib HNK, Bonin JG (2009) A joint ordinal-continuous model for activity episode generation and duration analysis, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11 – 15

Ribeiro A, Antunes A, Páez A (2009) Road accessibility and economic development: Empirical evidence from Portugal based on spatial econometric models, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11 – 15

Kanaroglou PS, Maoh H, Newbold KB, Scott DM, Páez A (2008) Demographic Model for Small-Area Population Projections: Application to Census Metropolitan Area of Hamilton in Ontario, 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 13 – 17

Kanaroglou PS, Mercado RG, Maoh H, Páez A, Scott DM, Newbold KB (2008) Policy Simulation Framework for Analyzing Elderly Mobility Issues Using IMPACT Decision Support System, 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 13 – 17

Farber S, Páez A (2008) Automobility and Social Activity Participation: Preliminary Analysis Using Data from a U.S. City, 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 13 – 17

Kanaroglou P, Mercado RG, Maoh H, Páez A, Scott DM, Newbold KB (2007) Simulating the Impact of Population Aging on Urban Transportation Infrastructure: An Application to Hamilton, Canada, 11th World Conference for Transport Research (WCTR), Berkeley, California, June 24–28.

Mercado RG, Páez A, Newbold KB (2007) Benchmarking Transport Policy in an Ageing Society in the Ontario Province, Canada, 11th World Conference for Transport Research (WCTR), Berkeley, California, June 24–28.

Mercado RG*, Páez A (2007) Mobility of Canadian Elderly: Multilevel Analysis of Distance Traveled in the Hamilton CMA, Ontario, Canada, 86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., December 21–25

Vichiensan V, Páez A, Kawai K, Miyamoto K (2006) Non-stationary interpolation method for urban model development, 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., December 9–13

Mercado RG, Páez A, Newbold KB, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS (2006) Transport Policy in Ageing Societies: An International Comparison and Implications for Canada, 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., December 9–13

Páez A, Potoglou D, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS, Newbold KB (2005) The Spatial Analysis of Trip Generation: A Case Study of the Hamilton CMA, 10th Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, London, UK, June 29–July 1

Páez A, Scott DM (2005) Social Influence and the Decision to Telecommute: A Simulation Example, 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., December 9–13

Páez A (2004) Development of a binary probit model for continuous-space contextual effects, 10th World Conference for Transport Research (WCTR), Istanbul, Turkey, July 4–8.

Vichiensan V, Páez A, Miyamoto K (2003) Improvement of Data Accuracy in Urban Modeling by Nonstationary Interpolation Method, 9th Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Sendai, Japan, May 27–29

Páez A (2003) Spatial Statistics for Urban Analysis: A Review of New Techniques with Examples, 9th Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Sendai, Japan, May 27–29

Páez A, Suthanaya P, Black J (2001) A spatial analysis of transportation mode-specific journey-to-work commuting preferences: implications for sustainable transport policies, Selected Proceedings of the 9th World Conference for Transport Research (WCTR), Seoul, Korea, July 22–27.

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Peer Reviewed Contributions to Books

Farber S, Páez A, Volz E (2009) Topology, dependency tests and estimation bias in network autoregressive models, in Progress in Spatial Analysis: Methods and Applications, Ed. A. Páez, J. Le Gallo, R. Buliung, and S. Dall’Erba. Springer, Heidelberg.

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Not Peered Review Contributions to Books

Wheeler DC, Páez A (2009) Geographically weighted regression, in Handbook of Spatial Analysis, Elsevier, Oxford, UK (forthcoming)

Páez A, Wheeler DC (2009) Geographically weighted regression, in Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 407-414.Oxford: Elsevier

Páez A (2004) Mexico City. In Urban Transport and the Environment: An International Perspective, Ed. Y. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, and A.D. May. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 330-335

Kazuaki M, Páez A (2002) Urban and community planning, in Fields of Civil Engineering, edited by Kiyoshi Horikawa, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

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Not Peer Reviewed Conference proceedings:

 

Ribeiro A, Antunes AP, Páez A (2008) ¿Cual es el vínculo entre accesibilidad y desarrollo económico? Evidencia empírica de las regiones periféricas de Portugal basada en modelos espaciales, VIII Congreso de Ingeniería de Transporte, A Coruña, Spain, July 2–4

Kanaroglou P, Maoh H, Scott DM, Newbold KB, Páez A (2006) A GIS-Based Decision Support Tool to Study the Impact of Elderly Population on the Transportation System in Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), Proceedings of the European Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Volos, Greece, August 30-September 2

Papinski D, Páez A, Scott DM, Wilton R (2006) Homework in Southern Ontario: An Exploration of Employment Trends, 1996-2001, Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Quebec City, Quebec, May 28–31

Potoglou D, Páez A, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS, and Newbold KB (2005) Canada’s elderly population travel behavior: experience from the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area, Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, May 8–11

Mercado R, Páez A, Newbold KB, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS (2005) Transportation policy in an ageing society: an international comparison, Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, May 8–11

Maoh H, Kanaroglou PS, Scott DM, Newbold KB, Páez A (2005) A GIS-based decision support tool to study the impact of elderly population on the transportation system in Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, May 8–11

Scott DM, Newbold KB, Páez A, Kanaroglou PS (2005) Transportation implications of Canada’s aging population, Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, May 8–11

Páez A, Miyamoto K (2001) International Large Scale Network Accessibility and GIS, paper presented in the Symposium Asia GIS 2001, Tokyo, Japan, June 20 – 22.

Páez A, Miyamoto K (2000) Spatial External Economies and Coordinated Land Use-Transportation Planning, paper presented in CODATU IX: Urban Transportation and Environment, Mexico City, April 11– 14.

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Not Peer Reviewed Presentation at Meetingss:

Páez A, Le Gallo J (2009) Using synthetic variables in instrumental variable estimation of spatial series, 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21

Whalen K, Páez A (2009) Exploratory Analysis of the enjoyment of commuting: a comparison of different modes, 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21

Ruiz M, Lopez F, Páez A (2009) Map comparison using symbolic dynamics, 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21

Páez A, Ruiz M, Lopez F, Logan J (2009) Yankees, Irish, and Germans: An Exploratory Analysis of Co-Location Patterns in late 19th Century Newark, 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21

Griffith DA, Páez A (2009) Simulating spatially autocorrelated random variables, 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21

Ruiz M, López F, Páez A (2009) Spatial Association of Qualitative Variables: A New Test Based on Symbolic Logic, 3rd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Barcelona, July 9–10

Páez A, Le Gallo J (2009) Using synthetic variables in instrumental variable estimation of spatial series, 3rd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Barcelona, July 9–10

Páez A, Farber S, Wheeler DC (2009) Multicollinearity in GWR models: Results of a new experiment, 3rd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Barcelona, July 9–10

Dam I, Scott DM, Páez A, Wilton R (2009) Exploring the relationship between social influence and telecommuting: some preliminary evidence, 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27 

Bonomi AM, Haddade E, Páez (2009) From good to great: development and growth in Brazilian Minimum Comparable Areas in the last decades, 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27 

Saberton PJ, Páez A, Newbold KB (2009) Using Canadian blood donor count data to generate positively autocorrelated regression models, 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27

Ruiz M, López F, Páez A (2009) Spatial Association of Qualitative Variables: A New Test Based on Symbolic Logic, 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27

Mercado RG, Páez A, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2009) Journey to Work in Urban Areas: Explaining Travel Mode Choice of Low-Income Persons in Ontario and Quebec, 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27

Saberton PJ Newbold KB, Páez A (2008) Testing for heterogeneity among Canadian blood donors, 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, NY, November 20-22

Farber S, Páez A, Mercado RG, Roorda M, Morency C (2008) A simultaneous equations approach to measuring social exclusion through activities and time use, 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, NY, November 20-22

Páez A, Mercado RG, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2008) At the intersection between opportunities and travel: Development of a new indicator of relative accessibility, 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, NY, November 20-22

Páez A, Mercado RG, Farber S, Morency C, Roorda M (2008) Access to Health Care Facilities by Canadian Elderly: An Application of Relative Accessibility Indicators, 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, NY, November 20-22

Páez A (2008) Demand for Para-transit rides: A Poisson regression with spatial filters approach, 2nd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, New York, November 17–19

Ruminot NA, Páez A, Carrasco JA (2008) Vulnerable nodes in networks: An autocorrelation approach, 2nd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, New York, November 17–19

Farber S, Páez A (2008) Model specification searches in spatial econometrics, 2nd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, New York, November 17–19

Páez A, Morency C, Roorda M, Mercado R, Farber S (2008) Fast food for thought: A tale of accessibility of low income individuals in Montreal, Presented at the VI National Encounter of the Brazilian Association of Regional Studies (ABER), Aracaju, Brazil, October 20-22.

Páez A, Ribeiro A, Antunes AP (2008) Modeling the impact of regional accessibility with spatially autoregressive models, NECTAR Accessibility Workshop, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, June 27–28

Farber S, Páez A, Axhausen K (2008) Any given Monday: An exploration of the stability of long term activity patterns, 87th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15–19

Páez A, Morency C, Roorda M (2008) New mobilities of the old. A study of the evolution of elderly mobility in the Greater Montreal Area, 87th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15–19

Páez A, Wheeler D, Farber S (2008) Multicollinearity in GWR models: A comment and some further experiments, 8th World Congress of Regional Science Association International, Sao Paulo, March 17-19

Farber S, Páez A, Volz E (2007). Topology and dependency tests in spatial and network autoregressive models, 1st World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Cambridge, UK, July 12-14

Páez A (2007) Density and Travel Indicators: Implications for understanding quality of life issues of the elderly, Meeting of the Special Interest Group 1 of the World Conference for Transport Research Society, Berkeley, California, June 25

Mercado RG*, Páez A (2007) Age, Gender, and Neighborhood Determinants of Distance Traveled: A Multilevel Analysis in the Hamilton CMA, 86th Annual Meeting of the TAssociation of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17–21

Long F, Páez A, Farber S (2006). Moving Window Approaches for Hedonic Price Estimation, 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, November 15-18

Farber S, Páez A (2006). The effect of influential points in cross-validation on GWR model estimation, 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, November 15-18

Mercado RG, Maoh H, Páez A, Kanaroglou P, Scott DM, Newbold KB (2006). A Policy Simulation Framework for Analyzing Elderly Transport Mobility Issues: An Application to the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, November 15-18

Mercado RG, Páez A (2006). Mobility of Canadian Elderly: Multilevel Analysis of Distance Traveled in the Hamilton CMA, Ontario, Canada, 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, November 15-18

Páez A, Scott DM, Volz E (2006) Autocorrelation in Social Networks: A Preliminary Investigation of Sampling Issues, XXVI International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 25-30

Long F, Páez A (2006) Modeling Spatial Variation in Housing Prices: A Shift from Global Regression to Local Regression, from Global Variogram to Local Variogram, Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Il, March 7-11.

Mercado R, Páez A (2006) The Influence of Socio-demographic Characteristics and Urban Form on Travel Behaviour of Canadian Older Population in the Hamilton CMA: Evidence from a Multilevel Model Analysis, Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Il, March 7-11.

Páez A, Scott DM, Volz E (2005) Autocorrelation in Social Networks: A Preliminary Investigation of Sampling Issues, 52nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Las Vegas, NV, November 10-12

Páez A, Scott DM, Potoglou D, Kanaroglou PS, Newbold KB (2005). Elderly Mobility: Demographic and Spatial of Trip Making in the Hamilton CMA, 52nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Las Vegas, NV, November 10-12

Kanaroglou PS, Maoh HF, Scott DM, Newbold KB, Páez A (2005). Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Population Change within a Predictive Transportation System for the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), 52nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Las Vegas, NV, November 10-12

Scott DM, Newbold KB, Páez A, Kanaroglou PS (2005) Transportation implications of Canada’s aging population: A GEOIDE Project, Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

Mercado R, Páez A, Newbold KB, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS (2005) Transport policy responses to elderly mobility in ageing societies: an international comparison, Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

Kanaroglou PS, Maoh H, Newbold KB, Scott DM, Páez A (2005) A GIS-based decision support tool to study the impact of elderly population on the transportation system in Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area, Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

Potoglou D, Páez A, Scott DM, Kanaroglou PS, and Newbold KB (2005). Canada’s elderly travel behavior: experience from the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area, Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

Páez A, Scott DM (2004) A discrete choice approach to modeling social influence on individual decision making, 51th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Seattle, WA, November 11-13

Páez A (2004), Spatially weighted regression: Exploring spatial non-stationarity in multiple contexts, 51th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Seattle, WA, November 11-13

Páez A, Scott DM (2004) Social Influence and the Decision to Telecommute: A Simulation Example, Meeting of Special Interest Group 1 of the World Conference for Transport Research Society, Istanbul, Turkey, July 8

Páez A (2003) Investigating heterogeneity in hedonic price models using geographically weighted regression, 50th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Philadelphia, 20-22 November

Páez A (2003) Network Accessibility and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity in Eastern Asia, Meeting of Special Interest Group 1 of the World Conference for Transport Research Society, Sendai, Japan, May 26

Páez A (2002) Spatial parametric nonstationarity: a variance heterogeneity approach, 49th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 14-16 November

Kawai K, Vichiensan V, Páez A, Miyamoto K (2002), Interpolation for Spatial Data in Urban Models based on Geographically Weighted Regression and Kriging, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers IV, 561-562.

Black J, Páez A, Suthanaya P (2001) Spatial Targets for Sustainable Transport: Some Examples from International Practice, paper presented in the seminar “SMART Targets for Sustainable Transport”, Sydney, Australia, September 4.

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1998) Analysis of Urbanization Related Environmental Impacts from their Spatial Perspective, paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Chapter, Japan Society of Civil Engineering.

Páez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1997) Modeling Land Uses and Environmental Indicators, paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Chapter, Japan Society of Civil Engineering.

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Not Peer Reviewed Posters

Farber S, Páez A (2009) Which and Why? A conceptual and statistical investigation of W matrix coding schemes. Paper presented at the Capturing Context Confernce, New York, New York, June 12-13.

Scott, D.M., Newbold, K.B., Spinney, J.E.L., Páez, A. and Kanaroglou, P. (2004) Changes in the travel behavior of elderly Canadians residing in CMAs, 1992 – 1998. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Scientific Conference of the GEOIDE Network, Gatineau, Quebec, May 30-June 1.

Newbold, K.B., Scott, D.M., Spinney, J.E.L., Kanaroglou, P. and Páez, A. (2004) Travel behavior within Canada’s older population: A cohort analysis. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Scientific Conference of the GEOIDE Network, Gatineau, Quebec, May 30-June 1.

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Invited Talks and Seminars

Panel session. Social Networks and Information and Communication Technology: Implications for Activities in Real and Virtual Spaces. 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 13, 2010.

Selected topics in spatial analysis. Graduate course offered at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. August 18, 2009. (10 participants)

Networks and behavior. Invited seminar delivered at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (National Institute for Space Research), São José dos Campos, Brazil. August 14, 2009.

Introducing spatial analysis in transportation research. Invited seminar delivered at the Dept. of Transport Engineering, Universidade São Paulo – Sao Cãrlos, Brazil. August 6, 2009.

Elección de modos de transporte y planificación de infraestructuras. Invited course offered at TRANSyT, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. July 15, 2009 (26 participants)

Panel session. Publishing in a spatial analysis journal. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009.

Análisis espacial y sistemas de transporte, ¿matrimonio de conveniencia o amor a segunda vista? Invited seminar delivered at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. March 12, 2009.

Uso de tiempo y exclusión social en Canadá: Una investigación de actividades comerciales y de servicios desde la perspectiva de grupos vulnerables. Invited seminar delivered at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. March 9, 2009.

Mobility and social exclusion in Canadian communities: An empirical investigation of opportunity access and deprivation from the perspective of vulnerable groups. Final report presentation delivered at Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Ottawa. February 13, 2009.

Modeling activity spaces using short term travel surveys. Invited seminar delivered at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal. February 12, 2009.

Econometric techniques for urban transport and land use analysis. Invited course offered at the Department de genies civil, geologique et des mines, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal. February 9-12, 2009 (16 participants)

Panel session. Social Networks and Travel. 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 11, 2009.

Jobs and the Single Parent: Accessibility Analysis in the City of Toronto. Invited seminar delivered at the Faculty of Economics, Administration, and Accounting of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. October 31, 2008.

Selected topics in spatial analysis. Graduate course offered at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. October 23 and 30, 2008. (12 participants)

A simulation investigation of weight matrix coding schemes. Invited speaker, 3rd Seminar of Spatial Econometrics Jean Paelinck, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain. October 10, 2008.

Movilidad Sostenible. Invited seminar delivered at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain. July 31, 2008.

Spatial analysis of property prices, a comparison of techniques and heuristics. Invited seminar delivered at the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. July 25, 2008.

Modelos locales: reflexiones sobre su utilidad para análisis inferencial e interpolación espacial. Invited seminar delivered at the Institute Lawrence R. Klein, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. July 17, 2008.

Técnicas econométricas para el análisis de sistemas de transporte y usos de suelo urbano. Graduate course offered at the Department of Transportation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. June 23-25, 2008 (24 participants)

Pruebas de hipótesis en estadísticas y modelos espaciales locales. Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Economics, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain. June 20, 2008.

Topología de redes y econometría espacial. Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. May 23, 2008.

“Riding in Cars with Seniors” Geographical perspectives on transportation modes and distance traveled by the elderly Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Geography, University of Toronto in Mississauga. March 12, 2008.

Eliciting travel cost information using a web-based data collection tool: Preliminary results from a graduate teaching project. Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto. November 30, 2007.

Transportation and spatial analysis: Marriage of convenience or love at second sight? Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Geography, Ryerson University. November 19, 2007.

Spatial analysis and travel behavior. Invited seminar delivered at the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo. February 23, 2007.

Networks, social influence, and behavior: Current research and outstanding challenges. Invited talk delivered at the Geographic Information Science Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, February 23, 2007.

International Workshop: Frontiers in Transportation – Social and Spatial Interactions, invited speaker and facilitator for the session “Multi-agent based simulation”, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. July 2-5, 2005.

Processus: Second International Colloquium on the Behavioural Foundations of Integrated Land-use and Transportation Models: Frameworks, Models and Applications. Invited discussant for the session “Interactions”. University of Toronto, Toronto. June 12-15, 2005.

Spatial effects in hedonic price functions. Invited talk delivered at the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity, Ryerson University, Toronto. July 22, 2003.

Spatial parametric nonstationarity. Invited talk delivered at a workshop organized by Students of Spatial Statistics (SOS2). Wilfried Laurier University, Waterloo. March 13, 2003.


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