David Boyce

Adjunct Professor

2149 Grey Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

E-mail address: d-boyce@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 570-9501
Fax: (847) 491-4011

Curriculum Vitae:


Education


Research

During 41 years of academic research and teaching, Professor Boyce has addressed key methodological issues related to metropolitan transportation and land use planning.  His early monograph, Metropolitan Plan Making, critically examined the experience with the land use and travel forecasting models during the 1960s.  Recognizing that these methods lacked an adequate scientific basis, he has devoted himself to the formulation and solution of urban travel and location forecasting models as constrained optimization problems and related constructs, which synthesize elements of transportation network analysis and modeling, discrete choice theory and entropy-based methods.

Through this research, he concluded that the conventional travel forecasting paradigm, widely known as the Sequential Procedure, may be counter-productive.  By focusing research on individual elements of daily travel decisions, often represented as having fixed travel times and costs, the conventional point of view obscures the overall equilibria and interdependence of travel choices.  To offer an alternative perspective, Professor Boyce has rigorously formulated, implemented, estimated and validated large-scale, integrated models of travel behavior.  This ongoing research offers an alternative both to the conventional viewpoint, and to some newer initiatives, which also lack a rigorous scientific foundation. It also serves as a basis for solving the Sequential Travel Forecasting Procedure with Feedback to assure consistency of travel time inputs and outputs.

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Teaching Activities


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Selected Publications