Opportunity-Normalized Residence-Workplace Matching and the Scale-Sensitive Structure of Urban Commuting (opens in new tab)

Urban spatial structure is commonly evaluated through the spatial distribution of homes and jobs or through aggregate commuting outcomes. Yet these approaches do not reveal how the opportunities created by urban form are selectively transformed into actual residence-workplace connections. This study introduces opportunity-normalized residence-workplace matching by comparing observed commuting distance distributions with opportunity-based distrib...