Director, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)

Current CV:

Interests: GIScience, Mobility Science, Sustainable Transportation

Current Research: My research and teaching focus on the intersection between geographic information science and transportation science. I want to understand how people use mobility and communications technologies to allocate scarce time among activities in geographic space – a perspective known as time geography.  I am  also interested in the social dimensions of transportation, and the implications of human mobility and accessibility for sustainable transportation, livable communities and public health.  My main approach to questions of mobility, livability and sustainability is the development and application of GIS and spatial analysis techniques to extract information from fine-grained mobility and spatio-temporal data.

Courses Taught:

GEOG 5301 Sustainable Transportation
GEOG 5802 Globalization and Environment

Selected Publications:

• Kar, A., Xiao, N., Miller, H.J. and Le, H.T.K. (2024) “Inclusive accessibility: Analyzing socio-economic disparities in perceived accessibility,” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 114, 102202.
• Lin, Y., Porr, A., Li, J., Logan, G., Xiao, N. and Miller, H.J. (2023) “Creating high resolution, three-dimensional digital models of historic urban neighborhoods from Sanborn Fire Insurance maps using machine learning,” PLoS ONE, 18(6): e0286340.
• Liu, L., Porr, A. and Miller, H.J. (2022) “Realizable accessibility: Evaluating the reliability of public transit accessibility using high-resolution real-time data,” Journal of Geographical Systems, 25, 429-451.
• Miller, H.J., Clifton, K., Akar, G., Tufte, K. Gopalakrishnan, S., MacArthur, J., Irwin, E., Ramnath, R., Stiles, J. (2021) “Urban sustainability observatories: Leveraging urban experimentation for sustainability science and policy,” Harvard Data Science Review, 3.2.