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Title: A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Urban forestry
Description: We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...

Title: Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
Subjects--Topical: Invasive plants, Urban forestry
Description: Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...

Title: Boosting computational effectiveness in big spatial flow data analysis with intelligent data reduction
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Data reduction, Statistics
Description: One of the enduring issues of spatial origin-destination (OD) flow data analysis is the computational inefficiency or even the impossibility to handle large datasets. Despite the recent advancements in high performance computing (HPC) and the read...

Title: Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
Description: In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...

Title: Effect of privatization and inland infrastructural development on India's container port selection dynamics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Subramanian, Kailas Venkita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Privatization--Economic aspects, Shipment of goods
Description: In this study, we present insights on how the privatization of Indian ports is altering the market share of containerized shipments across two key Industrial corridors of India. Using bill of lading dataset, we implement a binary multi-level discr...

Title: Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Data mining, Statistics
Description: Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...

Title: Machine learning of spatial data
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Machine learning, Geospatial data
Description: Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify these properties and investigate their influence and methods to...

Title: Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media : a case study of the 2016 US presidential election
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Presidents--Election, Social media
Description: Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structurelessness, quantifiability, and representativeness. Social media dat...

Title: Non-linear associations between the urban built environment and commuting modal split : a random forest approach and SHAP evaluation
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Nikparvar, Behnam
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Commuting, Statistics
Description: The study of commuting mode choice is crucial since driving, with all its associated environmental and economic consequences, is the United States' most popular mode of transportation due to urban sprawl, priority to road construction and America'...

Title: Predicting the upcoming services of vacant taxis near fixed locations using taxi trajectories
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hu, Chunchun
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Taxicab industry, Taxicabs
Description: Emerging on-line reservation services and special car services have greatly affected the development of the taxi industry. Surprisingly, taking a taxi is still a significant problem in many large cities. In this paper, we present an effective solu...

Title: Spatial analytics based on confidential data for strategic planning in urban health departments
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Yonto, Daniel, Issel, L. Michele
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Data protection
Description: Spatial data analytics can detect patterns of clustering of events in small geographies across an urban region. This study presents and demonstrates a robust research design to study the longitudinal stability of spatial clustering with small case...

Title: Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Commuting, Residential mobility
Description: Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...

Title: The role of socioeconomic and climatic factors in the spatio-temporal variation of human rabies in China
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Rabies
Description: Background: Rabies is a significant public health problem in China. Previous spatial epidemiological studies have helped understand the epidemiology of animal and human rabies in China. However, quantification of effects derived from relevant fact...