Accessibility analysis usually requires finding the closest facility within a certain category—for example, the nearest hotel, hospital, or gas station. Along with the development of location-based services, users also wish to find the optimal route to the closest facility, based on network...

Modeling land-use change is a prerequisite to understanding the complexity of land-use-change patterns. This paper presents a novel method to model urban land-use change using support-vector machines (SVMs), a new generation of machine learning algorithms used in classification and regression...