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:

• Mostafavisabet, M., Sadvari, J., Alam, M., Lin, Y., Xiao, N., and Miller, H.J. (2026) “Using Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Urban Historical Research and Reconstructions: A Review and Case Study.” Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2026.2690910
• Miller, H.J., Xiao, N., Lewis, M., Alam, M., Gwyn, O., Ha, T.M., Hooper, M., Kerdolff, K., Levine, G., Li, Y., Mostafavisabet, M., Sadvari, J., Stiver, J., Swaim-Fox, J., Thakkar, S., Tokey, A. I., Toone, S. and Wang, D. (2026) “From historical maps to lived experiences: A community-engaged approach to 3D urban modeling of neighborhoods prior to urban highways and urban renewal,” International Journal of Digital Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-026-00122-2.
• Kar. A., Miller, H.J., Alshaikh, E., Williams, N., Recker, R. and Yang, J. (2026) “Associations of road and visual environment characteristics with speeding behaviors among high risk teen drivers,” Journal of Safety Research, 97, 174-182.
• 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.
• Stiles, J. and Miller, H.J. (2024) “The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes: Towards systems-oriented crash investigation,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, 17, 97-113.
• Liu, L., Porr, A. and Miller, H.J. (2023) “Realizable accessibility: Evaluating the reliability of public transit accessibility using high-resolution real-time data,” Journal of Geographical Systems, 25, 429-451.