Public health initiatives have made important but relatively modest gains through individual-level and nonecological health-promotion efforts aimed at increasing physical activity. The previously overlooked built environment is now being considered as facilitating or hindering one’s ability to...

In this paper we present a computational approach to the integration of mass customization into the design of novel solutions. We propose the use of entropy as a function of the diversity of solutions that can be generated within a design space. This work demonstrates that the potential of...

Two measures of floorplate shape, a measure of universal metric distance and a measure of convex fragmentation, are developed to study the effect of building shells upon the spatial structure of office layouts. Layouts are represented according to the fewest-lines map typically used in syntactic...

Individual decision making is commonly studied using discrete choice models. Models of this type are applied extensively to the study of travel behavior, residential location, and employment decisions, among other topics of interest. A notable characteristic of the underlying economic theory is...

Automated or semiautomated surveillance monitoring involves movement tracking and sensor handoff. In order to track moving objects over a large area, sensor coverage needs to overlap significantly. Overlapping coverage can be modeled using the concept of backup coverage, a location modeling...

Measuring urban sprawl is a controversial topic among scholars who investigate the urban landscape. This study attempts to measure sprawl from a landscape perspective. The measures and indices used are derived from various research disciplines, such as urban research, ecological research, and...

Understanding the stop-making behavior of commuters is important for planners and policy makers in their efforts to improve travel demand models and to develop transportation demand management strategies. Previous studies have identified various determinants of commuters’ stop generation....

We introduce two measures of connectivity that are applicable to standard GIS-based representations of street networks. The <?tf=“t906”>reach of a point measures the total street length covered by all paths extending out from that point that are no longer than a given threshold value. The <?tf=“t906”>directional...</?tf=“t906”></?tf=“t906”>

Distance constraint is a major concern in many spatial analyses. Buffering is one of the proximity techniques in GIS most commonly used to address this constraint. I introduce shape-based point buffering, an anisotropic and variable-distance buffer generation method conformal to the original...