The application of big data in urban transportation and development of smart cities has been
attracting global interest. The overburdened transport infrastructure due to rapid …

Big Data is an emerging paradigm and has currently become a strong attractor of global
interest, specially within the transportation industry. The combination of disruptive …

The transportation landscape is ever-evolving in the face of new technologies, including the
emergence of micromobility—a new classification given to lightweight human-powered or …

The penetration of devices integrated with location-based services and internet services has
generated massive data about the everyday life of citizens and tracked their activities …

Urban geometry plays a critical role in determining paths for pedestrian flow in urban areas.
To improve the urban planning processes and to enhance quality of life for end-users in …

Despite the unprecedentedly growing discussion of big data generated in urban
environments and the widespread use of so-called urban big data (UBD) in recent years …

The chapters in this book were first presented in a 2-day workshop on Big Data and Urban
Informatics held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014. The workshop, sponsored by …

The urban planning profession is increasingly challenged to analyze extensive text data,
from plans to public feedback. While natural language processing (NLP) has promising …

Civic technology is an emerging field that typically leverages open data—and sometimes
open source software—to address challenges that may be invisible to or neglected by …

In this paper, we compare the National Structure Inventory, a recently released building
inventory for the United States, with a local tax assessor building inventory for use in …