Description
The Practice of Spatial Analysis, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou
Coordinators: Briassoulis Helen, Kavroudakis Dimitris, Soulakellis Nikolaos
Language: English
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Keywords
Techniques of spatial analysis; Spatial socioeconomic units; Region-building; Spatial microsimulation; Travel demand models; Air pollution health risk mapping; Personal risk avoidance; urban Accessibility; Sustainable urban mobility; Vehicular GHG emissions; urban geography and urbanism; air pollution and air quality
Publication date: 12-2018
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 07-2018
Support: Print on demand
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This edited volume compiles a set of papers that present various applications of spatial analysis, both traditional and contemporary, on diverse subjects in a wide range of contexts. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada, who greatly contributed to scientific and applied research on spatial analysis. In his honor, the book offers a selection of various spatial analysis approaches to the study of contemporary urban transportation, land use, and air pollution issues.
The first part of the book discusses selected general issues in spatial analysis; ontologies, agent-based modelling and accessibility analysis. The second part deals with urban transportation analysis and modelling issues; agent-based activity/travel microsimulation, bottleneck models, public transit use, freight transport and connected automated vehicles impact assessment. Part three focuses on integrated land use and transport analysis, discussing the land value impacts of public transport infrastructure, the role of transport provision on business evolution and commute distance considerations in urban relocation. The fourth part, on travel-related air pollution analysis, presents the development of a geo-information software for mapping Aerosol Optical Thickness in urban environments and the development of a neighborhood level, real time, internet-enabled, air pollution map in the Canadian urban context. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, graduate students, consultants, and practitioners working on topics related to spatial analysis, land use and transport analysis, planning and decision making, and air pollution studies.Chapter1: Introduction- The practice of spatial analysis.- Chapter2: Pavlos Kanaroglou, his McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics and Research Contributions to the City of Hamilton (2007-2016).- Chapter3: An ontological framework for spatial socioeconomic units.- Chapter4: Spatial microsimulation and agent-based modelling.- Chapter5: Spatial Patterns of Accessibility between Islands of the North and South Aegean Regions and Attica.- Chapter6: Agent-Based Activity/Travel Microsimulation: What’s Next?.- Chapter7: Bottleneck models and Departure Time Problems.- Chapter8: Factors influencing journey-to-work by public transit in mega Canadian cities.- Chapter9: Freight in the City: The Evolving Landscape of Matters and Models.- Chapter10: A Structural Equation Model of Commercial Vehicle Ownership.- Chapter11: Applying Behavior Change Theory to Predict Travel Behavior Changes of University Commuters.- Chapter12: Developing a Data Transferability Platform to Analyze National-level Impacts of Connected Automated Vehicles.- Chapter13: The impact of public transport infrastructure on land values: Using spatial analysis to uncover policy-relevant processes.- Chapter14: California Business Establishment Evolution and Transportation Provision.- Chapter15: Investigating the Internal Compromise between Wife and Husband’s Commute Time Changes in Residential Relocation.- Chapter16: Aerosol Optical Thickness Mapper (AOT-mapper): A Geoinformation Software for AOT Mapping at Urban Scale Using Landsat TM or ETM+ Satellite Images.- Chapter17: Mapping Air Pollution Health Risk: An application of Canada’s AQHI.
Dr. Helen Briassoulis is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean. She was head of the Department of Geography from 2004-2008 and from 2013-2016. Her teaching subjects include methods of regional analysis, statistics, and environmental impact assessment. She has written several papers and book chapters on research methods, analysis of the human dimensions of land use change, desertification, tourism, planning, and policy analysis. She is the author of the web-chapter "Analysis of Land Use Change: Theoretical and Modeling Approaches" (2000) in the Web Book of Regional Science (Regional Research Institute, University of West Virginia) which is used as a teaching and research resource globally.
