OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of urban analytics in strategic planning – A case study of the greater Sydney region plan	354
Using computer vision and street view images to assess bus stop amenities	110
Measuring children's and adolescents' accessibility to greenspaces from different locations and commuting settings	102
Perceptions of space and time of public transport travel associated with human brain activities: A case study of bus travel in Beijing	93
Quantitative assessment and comparison of urban patterns in Germany and the United States	90
Developing two-dimensional indicators of transport demand and supply to promote sustainable transportation equity	76
Urban streets profiling with coupled spatio-temporal characteristics and topological information from the biking perspective	75
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	74
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	73
Performance benchmark on semantic web repositories for spatially explicit knowledge graph applications	70
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	69
Optimization of urban greenway route using a coverage maximization model for lines	64
What we can learn from selected, unmatched data: Measuring internet inequality in Chicago	62
Editorial Board	62
A framework for human-computer interactive street network design based on a multi-stage deep learning approach	57
High-resolution urban change modeling and flood exposure estimation at a national scale using open geospatial data: A case study of the Philippines	56
Editorial Board	56
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	56
Impacts of COVID-19 on urban networks: Evidence from a novel approach of flow measurement based on nighttime light data	56
Combining spatial and sociodemographic regression techniques to predict residential fire counts at the census tract level	53
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	53
Ridesharing accessibility from the human eye: Spatial modeling of built environment with street-level images	52
ORTEGA: An object-oriented time-geographic analytical approach to trace space-time contact patterns in movement data	50
Network analysis and characterization of vulnerability in flood control infrastructure for system-level risk reduction	49
Identifying the spatial footprint of pollen distributions using the Geoforensic Interdiction (GOFIND) model	49

Patterns of urban foot traffic dynamics	48
Evolutions of households with every member out-of-home across Japanese cities from 1987 to 2015	47
Early warning of COVID-19 hotspots using human mobility and web search query data	45
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	42
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	42
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	41
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	39
Does real time experience matter? Comparison of retrospective and in-situ spatial data in participatory mapping	38
Post-disaster recovery policy assessment of urban socio-physical systems	37
Function and form of U.S. cities	36
How shareable is your trip? A path-based analysis of ridesplitting trip shareability	36
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	36
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ethnoracial diversity and segregation in Los Angeles County: Insights from mobile phone data	35
Time will not tell: Temporal approaches for privacy-preserving trajectory publishing	34
Coupling graph deep learning and spatial-temporal influence of built environment for short-term bus travel demand prediction	34
Granularity of origins and clustering destinations in indoor wayfinding	34
Editorial Board	34
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	33
Editorial Board	33
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	32
The cost of climate change: A generalized cost function approach for incorporating extreme weather exposure into public transit accessibility	32
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	32
Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice	32
Spatial aspects of urban air quality management: Estimating the impact of micro-scale urban form on pollution dispersion	32
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	31
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	30
Estimating congestion zones and travel time indexes based on the floating car data	30
Entangled footprints: Understanding urban neighbourhoods by measuring distance, diversity, and direction of flows in Singapore	30
Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios	29
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	28
Measuring pedestrians' movement and building a visual-based attractiveness map of public spaces using smartphones	28
Sensing urban soundscapes from street view imagery	28
How can SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) interpretations improve deep learning based urban cellular automata model?	28
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	27
How did micro-mobility change in response to COVID-19 pandemic? A case study based on spatial-temporal-semantic analytics	27
Unraveling nonlinear and spatial non-stationary effects of urban form on surface urban heat islands using explainable spatial machine learning	26
Inferring storefront vacancy using mobile sensing images and computer vision approaches	26
Towards healthcare access equality: Understanding spatial accessibility to healthcare services for wheelchair users	26
An ontology-based approach for harmonizing metrics in bike network evaluations	25
Exploring large language models for human mobility prediction under public events	25
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	25
Equalizing the spatial accessibility of emergency medical services in Shanghai: A trade-off perspective	25
Editorial Board	25
An examination of the spatial coverage and temporal variability of Google Street View (GSV) images in small- and medium-sized cities: A people-based approach	25
Automatic detection of urban vacant land: An open-source approach for sustainable cities	25
Coverage and bias of street view imagery in mapping the urban environment	24
Equity of access to Uber's wheelchair accessible service	24
Understanding dockless bike-sharing spatiotemporal travel patterns: Evidence from ten cities in China	24
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	23
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	23

Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	22
Dissecting lightning strike hazard impact patterns to National Airspace System facilities in the contiguous United States	22
Does area type matter for pedestrian distribution? Testing movement economy theory on gated and non-gated housing estates in Wuhan, China	22
Identifying the spatio-temporal dynamics of mega city region range and hinterland: A perspective of inter-city flows	22
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	22
Editorial Board	22
Assessing surface drainage conditions at the street and neighborhood scale: A computer vision and flow direction method applied to lidar data	21
Analyzing the multiscale patterns of jobs-housing balance and employment self-containment by different income groups using LEHD data: A case study in Cincinnati metropolitan area	21
Equitable optimization of US airline route networks	21
Mobility between Colombian cities is predominantly repeat and return migration	21
Towards user-driven earth observation-based slum mapping	21
Disparities in public transport accessibility in London from 2011 to 2021	21
Examining the relationship between active transport and exposure to streetscape diversity during travel: A study using GPS data and street view imagery	20
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	20
Understanding collective human movement dynamics during large-scale events using big geosocial data analytics	20
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	20
Editorial Board	20
Simulating large-scale urban land-use patterns and dynamics using the U-Net deep learning architecture	19
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	19
Automated simulation for household road traffic noise exposure: Application and field evaluation in a high-density city	19
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	19
Editorial Board	19
Discovering income-economic segregation patterns: A residential-mobility embedding approach	19
A graph-based modelling approach for the representation and analysis of urban conflicts	19
A citizen science toolkit to collect human perceptions of urban environments using open street view images	19
Advances in estimating pedestrian measures through artificial intelligence: From data sources, computer vision, video analytics to the prediction of crash frequency	19
Mechanisms for increased school segregation relative to residential segregation: a model-based analysis	19
Generalized geographically and temporally weighted regression	18
An integrated decision support system for the urban food-water-energy nexus: Methodology, modification, and model formulation	18
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	18
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	18
Predicting human mobility flows in response to extreme urban floods: A hybrid deep learning model considering spatial heterogeneity	18
GeoAI-enhanced community detection on spatial networks with graph deep learning	18
Large scale geospatial data conflation: A feature matching framework based on optimization and divide-and-conquer	18