The Practice of Spatial Analysis

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: The Practice of Spatial Analysis (Helen Briassoulis, Dimitris Kavroudakis, Nikolaos Soulakellis)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Pavlos Kanaroglou, his McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics and Research Contributions to the City of Hamilton (2007–2016) (Mark R. Ferguson, Christopher D. Higgins, Moataz Mohamed)....Pages 21-48 An Ontological Framework for Spatial Socioeconomic Units (Athanasia Darra, Marinos Kavouras)....Pages 49-67 Spatial Microsimulation and Agent-Based Modelling (Dimitris Ballas, Tom Broomhead, Phil Mike Jones)....Pages 69-84 Spatial Patterns of Accessibility Between Islands of the North and South Aegean Regions and Attica (Dimitris Kavroudakis, Polydoropoulos Ioakeim, Kyriakidis Phaedon, Kizos Thanassis)....Pages 85-115 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Agent-Based Activity/Travel Microsimulation: What’s Next? (Eric J. Miller)....Pages 119-150 Bottleneck Models and Departure Time Problems (André de Palma, Claude Lefèvre)....Pages 151-165 Factors Influencing Journey-to-Work by Public Transit in Mega Canadian Cities (Rahaf Husein, Hanna Maoh, Dimitris Potoglou)....Pages 167-186 Freight Transportation: The Evolving Landscape of Matters and Models (Clarence Woudsma)....Pages 187-201 A Structural Equation Model of Commercial Vehicle Ownership (Toka S. Mostafa, Matthew J. Roorda)....Pages 203-218 Applying Behavior Change Theory to Predict Travel Behavior of University Commuters (Panagiotis Papaioannou, Ioannis Politis)....Pages 219-251 Developing a Spatial Transferability Platform to Analyze National-Level Impacts of Connected Automated Vehicles (Ramin Shabanpour, Nima Golshani, Thomas S. Stephens, Joshua Auld, Abolfazl Mohammadian)....Pages 253-272 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 The Impact of Public Transport Infrastructure on Residential Land Value: Using Spatial Analysis to Uncover Policy-Relevant Processes (Dimitris Potoglou, Hanna Maoh, Yiming Wang, Scott Orford)....Pages 275-293 California Business Establishment Evolution and Transportation Provision (Adam W. Davis, Jae Hyun Lee, Elizabeth C. McBride, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Konstadinos G. Goulias)....Pages 295-323 Investigating the Internal Compromise Between Wife and Husband’s Commute Time Changes in Residential Relocation (Milad Ghasri, Taha Hossein Rashidi)....Pages 325-339 Front Matter ....Pages 341-341 Aerosol Optical Thickness Mapper (AOT-Mapper): A Geo-Information Software for AOT Mapping at Urban Scale Using Landsat TM or ETM+ Satellite Images (Nikolaos Soulakellis, Themistoklis Kontos, Nikolaos Sifakis, Christos Iossifidis)....Pages 343-358 Mapping Air Pollution Health Risk: An Application of Canada’s AQHI (Matthew Adams, Denis Corr, Weeberb Requia)....Pages 359-372 Back Matter ....Pages 373-381