The rationale of road-pricing schemes is to reduce the negative externalities of road traffic by increasing costs to decrease demand. Although in the transportation literature this is a well-acknowledged means of relieving cities from congestion, only few cities have introduced such schemes so far. One of the most notable examples in Europe is London’s congestion charge. Motorists entering London’s city center are required to pay a fixed ...

Citizens are increasingly sharing their location and movements through‘check-ins’ on location based social networks (LBSNs). These services are collecting unprecedented amounts of big data that can be used to study how we travel and interact with our environment. This paper will present the development of a destination choice model for Ontario, Canada which uses data from Foursquare, the largest LBSN to model destination attractiveness. ...