Speaker: Harvey J. Miller, Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), Professor, Geography, The Ohio State University.
Faculty Host: Xinyue Ye, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning & Urban Data Science Lab
Abstract: Contemporary humanity enjoys mobility levels that are unprecedented in history. While this has benefits, it also has enormous social, health and environmental costs. Mitigating these costs and making transportation more equitable and effective is crucial if civilization is to survive the 21st century — a world that will see 9 billion people, most of whom will crowd into cities. This lecture will describe the concept of sustainable mobility and how new, data-driven science allows scholars and practitioners to address these essential issues. I will provide examples from my research and projects from the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) that illustrate ways to leverage these new data sources to gain insights into mobility dynamics and their implications for urban sustainability.
This seminar series is co-organized by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Transportation Institute, and Institute of Data Science at Texas A&M University. It is run by Texas A&M Urban Data Science Lab.
Biography: Dr. Harvey J. Miller is the Bob and Mary Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science, Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) and Professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Miller is also a Courtesy Professor in the City and Regional Planning program in the Knowlton School, a member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Sustainability Institute and an Affiliated Faculty of the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. He also chairs the Mapping Science Committee and he is a member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Miller’s research and teaching interests are at the intersection between geographic information science and transportation, in particular, the analysis of human mobility within cities and regions using geospatial and moving objects analytics. The main questions driving Dr. Miller’s research include sustainable transportation, livable cities, and the relationships between human mobility, health and social equity. He received the Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transportation Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the Research Award for scholarly contributions to Geographic Information Science from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Dr. Miller is also an elected Fellow of the AAG and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Transportation Data Science Seminar Series is sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. Please contact Xinyue Ye (LAUP), Michael Martin (TTI), or Xiao Li (TTI) for further information.
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