Research

Publications & working papers

My research focuses on residential location modelling, accessibility measurement, discrete choice modelling, and the endogenous relationship between land use and travel behaviour. A central theme is inferring the bi-directional link between where people live and how they travel — drawing on econometric methods, causal inference, and machine learning to understand human activity patterns and decision-making in complex transport and energy systems.

Journal articles

Household VMT paper
Published Quantifying the Relative Contribution of Factors to Household Vehicle Miles of Travel
Transportation Research Part D, Vol. 63, pp. 23–36  ·  TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2018
Abhilash C. Singh, Sebastian Astroza, Venu Garikapati, Ram Pendyala, Chandra Bhat, Patricia Mokhtarian
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Working papers

IV probit model
Working Paper A probit instrumental variable model for addressing endogeneity in multinomial choice and its consideration set formation
World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Montreal, Canada, July 2023
Hajime Watanabe, Abhilash C. Singh
Accessibility London
Working Paper Incorporating the impacts of air pollutants and exposure to crime into accessibility-based planning
Abhilash C. Singh, Fangce Guo, Aruna Sivakumar, Adam Gough
Toronto accessibility
Working Paper A joint analysis of accessibility and household trip frequencies by travel mode
World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Montreal, Canada, July 2023
Abhilash C. Singh, Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, Aruna Sivakumar, Yang (Luna) Xi, Eric Miller
Accessibility big data
Working Paper Accessibility in the era of big data and emerging technologies
Abhilash C. Singh, Aruna Sivakumar

Conference papers

ICMC 2022
Conference Semi-compensatory probabilistic model for residential location choices
7th International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2022
Abhilash C. Singh, Aruna Sivakumar, Rolf Moeckel
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Automated vehicles psychology
Conference Psychosocial factors associated with intended use of automated vehicles
9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Lyon, France, February 2021
Abhilash C. Singh, Hélène Bouscasse, Aruna Sivakumar
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Food desert simulation
Conference Predictive food desert simulation modelling to increase food access in underserved communities
98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, January 2019  ·  not peer reviewed
Abhilash C. Singh, Kelsey Abel, Joseph Hutchinson, Kasey M. Faust, Chandra Bhat
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IATBR 2018
Conference Evaluating the effects of consumers' perceptions of safety and productive use of time on the intention to adopt autonomous vehicle technology
15th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), Santa Barbara, CA, July 2018  ·  not peer reviewed
Abhilash C. Singh, Patricia Lavieri, Taehooie Kim, Chandra Bhat, Ram Pendyala
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Simultaneous choices
Conference Chicken or the egg? Modelling simultaneous transportation choices
Rencontres Francophones Transport-Mobilité (RFTM), Lyon, June 2018  ·  not peer reviewed
Hélène Bouscasse, Abhilash C. Singh, Sebastian Astroza, Chandra Bhat
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New York activity-based model
Conference Adapting an existing activity-based modelling structure for the New York region
TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference, June 2018
Rachel Copperman, Jason Lemp, Thomas Rossi, Abhilash C. Singh, Chandra Bhat, Ram Pendyala, Sara Khoeini, Sebastian Astroza
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Technical reports

TxDOT statewide model
Report Methods for improving consistency between statewide and regional planning models
Stephen Boyles, Chandra Bhat, Jennifer Duthie, Nan Jiang, Felipe Dias, Ehsan Jafari, Venktesh Pandey, Abhilash C. Singh, Cesar Yahia
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