OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 19. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	587
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	113
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	97
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	95
Function and form of U.S. cities	94
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	93
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	91
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	91
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	87
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	82
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	77
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	76
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	73
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	71
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	70
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	65
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	61
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	55
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	54
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	54
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	52
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	52
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	48
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	48
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	47

Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	44
Corrigendum to “An integrated physical-social analysis of disrupted access to critical facilities and community service-loss tolerance in urban flooding” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80 (	44
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	43
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	43
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	41
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	41
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	41
A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	39
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	38
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	38
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	37
Editorial Board	36
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	36
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	36
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	36
Delineating functional urban areas in Chinese mega city regions using fine-grained population data and cellphone location data: A case of Pearl River Delta	35
Editorial Board	34
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	34
Automatic detection of potential mosquito breeding sites from aerial images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles	34
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	33
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	33
Utilizing geo-referenced imagery for systematic social observation of neighborhood disorder	33
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	32
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset	31
Editorial Board	31
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	31
Measuring nuanced walkability: Leveraging ChatGPT's vision reasoning with multisource spatial data	31
How regularly do people visit service places?	31
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	30
A heuristic algorithm for balancing workloads in coverage modeling	29
A new geodemographic classification of the influence of neighbourhood characteristics on crime: The case of Leeds, UK	29
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	29
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	29
“Domains of deprivation framework” for mapping slums, informal settlements, and other deprived areas in LMICs to improve urban planning and policy: A scoping review	29
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	28
From points to patterns: An explorative POI network study on urban functional distribution	27
Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context	27
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	27
The fallacy of the closest antenna: Towards an adequate view of device location in the mobile network	27
Investigating path dependence and spatial characteristics for retail success using location allocation and agent-based approaches	27
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	26
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	26
Shared automated vehicle fleet operations for first-mile last-mile transit connections with dynamic pooling	26
Multi-objective optimization of urban environmental system design using machine learning	26
Smart water metering as a non-invasive tool to infer dwelling type and occupancy – Implications for the collection of neighbourhood-level housing and tourism statistics	26
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	26
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	26
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	25
Editorial Board	25
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	25

Modeling spatial and temporal urban environmental noise using street view imagery and machine learning	24
Combining a land parcel cellular automata (LP-CA) model with participatory approaches in the simulation of disruptive future scenarios of urban land use change	24
Causal effects of mobility intervention policies on intracity flows during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of zonal locations in the transportation networks	24
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai: Heat risk vs. shelter provision	24
Digital twins and AI for healthy and sustainable cities	24
Detecting changes in spatial characteristics of Colorado human-caused wildfires using APRIORI-based frequent itemset mining	24
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	24
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	24
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	23
Torque work of origin-destination flows: Quantifying urban place centrality from a physical perspective	23
Calibration of cellular automata urban growth models from urban genesis onwards - a novel application of Markov chain Monte Carlo approximate Bayesian computation	23
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	23
Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG	23
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	22
Advancing population-targeted urban sensing: A comparative study on mobile and static sensing paradigms	22
Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	22
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	21
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	21
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	21
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	21
Editorial Board	21
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	20
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	20
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	20
Housing segregation in Chinese major cities: A K-nearest neighbor analysis of longitudinal big data	20
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	20
Characterizing the activity patterns of outdoor jogging using massive multi-aspect trajectory data	20
Optimizing urban green space spatial patterns for thermal environment improvement: A multi-objective approach in the context of urban renewal	20
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	20
Editorial Board	20
Extracting spatial effects from machine learning model using local interpretation method: An example of SHAP and XGBoost	19
Editorial Board	19
Mapping Great Britain's semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments	19
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	19
Capturing urban recreational hotspots from GPS data: A new framework in the lens of spatial heterogeneity	19
Machine-based understanding of noise perception in urban environments using mobility-based sensing data	19