Spatial interaction and spatial structure are foundational geographical abstractions, though
there is often variation in how they are conceptualized and deployed in quantitative models …

Logistics sprawl is the phenomenon driving warehouses and freight terminals further and
further away from city centers, for reasons that are mostly dependent on urban planning …

Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is a classical modeling method for dealing with
spatial non-stationarity. It incorporates the distance decay effect in space to fit local …

Many studies seek to study the relationship between socioeconomic factors and human
mobility indicators. However, it is well documented that mobility levels are also driven by the …

We consider a car-sharing problem in a company during business hours. The employees,
located at one or several offices, have to travel to one or more appointments each with a …

The present research is dedicated to investigating the explanatory power of relative location
variables in assessing and forecasting market values. Here, relative location refers to the …

Hiking is among the most popular outdoor activities. In this paper, we introduce the hiking
tourist problem (HTP) to support hikers in their trip planning to attractive hiking spots in a …

In many applications of spatial analysis methods, straight-line Euclidean distance (ED) is
frequently used as the distance metric. However, ED is not adequate to reflect the actual …

Cities in an urban agglomeration closely interact with each other through various flows.
Information flow, as one of the important forms of urban interactions, is now increasingly …

The debate on the ideal urban layout, or form has long been an active topic of research. As
cities expand and population demands rise, the quest for efficient and sustainable urban …