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Human Geography | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) | Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Causes and Prevention of Crime | Land Use and Environmental Planning | Transport Planning | Cultural Studies | Urban Analysis and Development | Urban Design | Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified | Urban Sociology and Community Studies | Urban and Regional Planning | Sociology | Economic Geography | Criminology | Social And Cultural Geography | Urban And Regional Studies
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Urban Planning | Regional Planning | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design | Human Capital Issues | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Technological and Organisational Innovation | Studies in human society | Crime Prevention | Community services not elsewhere classified |
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Using circular statistics to analyse spatial flow and temporal data
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-07-2014
A regional renaissance? The shifting geography of internal migration under COVID-19
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-05-2022
Visualising space and time in crime patterns: A comparison of methods
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
Using modality styles to understand cycling dissonance: The role of the street-scale environment in commuters' travel mode choice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Generating different urban land configurations based on heterogeneous decisions of private land developers: An agent-based approach in a developing country context
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-05-2019
DOI: 10.3390/IJGI8050229
Abstract: In the provision of urban residential areas, private land developers play critical roles in nearly all stages of the land development process. Despite their important role little is known about how the spatial decisions of in idual developers collectively influence urban growth. This paper employs an agent-based modelling approach to capture the spatial decisions of private land developers in shaping new urban forms. By drawing on microeconomic theory, the model simulates urban growth in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, Indonesia, under different scenarios that reflect the decision behaviours of different types of developers. Results reveal that larger developers favour sites that are more proximate to the city centre whilst smaller developers prefer sites that are located further away from the city, that drive a more sprawled urban form. Our findings show that new urban areas are generated by different developers through different processes. The profit maximisation behaviour by developers with large capital reserves is more predictable than those with small capital funds. The imbalance in capital holdings by different types of developers interacts with one another to exert adverse impacts on the urban development process. Our study provides supporting evidence highlighting the need for urban policy to regulate urban expansion and achieve more sustainable urban development outcomes in a developing world context.
Visual data mining methods for kernel smoothed estimates of cox processes
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Understanding 'segmented assimilation’ in Australian cities: Modelling the residential choices of mainland China-, Hong Kong- and Taiwan-born migrants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Graphical tools for conditional probabilistic exploration of multivariate spatial datasets
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
MCMC methods for univariate exponential family models with intractable normalization constants
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2014
Career Moves: Migration Histories of Selected Regional Workforces in Bendigo, Australia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-09-2018
Abstract: Given the importance of the neighbourhood context for residents’ social cohesion, the current study examines the association between types of social and non-social places on three indicators of social cohesion: neighbour networks, social cohesion and neighbourhood attachment. We spatially integrate data from the census, topographic databases and a 2012 survey of 4132 residents from 148 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia, and employ multilevel models to assess whether the variation in resident reports of social cohesion is attributable to land uses that function as neighbourhood social conduits. We also consider the degree to which neighbourhood fragmentation affects our indicators of social cohesion. Our findings reveal that even after controlling for the socio-demographic context of the neighbourhood and a range of in idual and household control variables, residents’ reports of social cohesion are significantly associated with the types of social conduits, the ersity of land use and the degree of neighbourhood fragmentation.
Modelling loyalty and behavioural change intentions of busway passengers: A case study of Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
The influence of weather on local geographical patterns of police calls for service
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1068/B32133
Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 07-05-2021
Exploring the spatio‐temporal dynamics of fire incidence and the influence of socio‐economic status: A case study from south east Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Modelling geographical graduate job search using circular statistics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-05-2013
DOI: 10.1111/PIRS.12026
The Effect of Weather on Assault
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00139165211014629
Abstract: This paper examines the role of local weather conditions in explaining variations in assault, in sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia. It details the extent to which local variations in weather are important in shaping the necessary preconditions for assault to take place. Results suggest that higher daily temperatures are associated with an increased propensity for assault at the neighborhood level after controlling for seasonal effects. Assaults occur significantly less frequently in summer than in spring and there is a greater propensity for assaults to occur on weekends compared to weekdays. Neighborhood disadvantage, ethnic ersity, and the presence of risky facilities such bars, schools, or shops increased the propensity for assault above and beyond the effect of temperature. Findings are important in their capacity to isolate the effect of the prevailing local weather conditions whilst controlling for seasonal variations, land use, and the socio-economic and demographic context within which assaults took place.
Vehicle scheduling approach and its practice to optimise public bicycle redistribution in Hangzhou
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Date: 31-05-2018
Interregional migration analysis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-03-2015
Introduction to the census questions special issue
Publisher: Australian Population Studies
Date: 30-05-2021
DOI: 10.37970/APS.V5I1.74
Abstract: No abstract
Evaluating the effects of Australian policy changes on human capital: the role of a graduate visa scheme
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2015
Abstract: High-skilled migration across international borders is becoming increasingly important in policy and academic debates. In Australia, the recognition of the importance of attracting and retaining highly skilled in iduals has stimulated fundamental shifts in immigration policies. This paper explores the impacts of one of these policy shifts in focusing on the introduction of a graduate visa scheme. The scheme was introduced in Australia for the first time in September 2007 offering international graduates from Australian universities 18 months of working rights post-graduation. Since the implementation of this visa scheme there has been a sharp increase in the number of overseas graduates staying in Australia. However, no research has been carried out that investigates the working conditions and interregional migration patterns of these graduates remaining in Australia under this temporary 18 months visa. Through the exploration of in idual survey data describing the 2005 and 2008 cohorts of graduates representing the ‘before’ and ‘after’ the graduate visa scheme introduction this paper explores the impact of the visa scheme through analysing and comparing the working conditions and migration patterns of two cohorts of graduates. Findings suggest that although the introduction of the graduate visa scheme attracted more international students/graduates into the country, our analysis highlighted that the average working conditions of the international graduates who decided to remain in Australia worsened. Comparing these results with their domestic (Australian) graduate counterparts revealed that this was not due to the overall state of the Australian economy over the period under consideration.
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Mapping spatial patterns of bus usage under varying local temperature conditions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2017
Visualization of predictive distributions for discrete spatial-temporal log cox processes approximated with MCMC
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Contemporary Applications For Spatially Integrated Social Science
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-08-2021
Urban green space and cooling services: Opposing changes of integrated accessibility and social equity along with urbanization
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Ageing Australia: changing location patterns of older people in South East Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-03-2014
Where are the overseas graduates staying on? Overseas graduate migration and rural attachment in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Examining the spatial–temporal dynamics of bus passenger travel behaviour using smart card data and the flow-comap
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Combining Landsat and landscape metrics to analyse large-scale urban land cover change: a case study in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-03-2019
Dynamics of bike sharing in Washington, DC and Brisbane, Australia: Implications for policy and planning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-01-2015
Testing dasymetric techniques to spatially disaggregate the regional population forecasts for South East Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2011
Exploring Bus Rapid Transit passenger travel behaviour using big data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Simulating the impact of developers’ capital possession on urban development across a megacity: An agent-based approach
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-09-2021
Abstract: The spatial decisions of land developers are known to play a significant role in driving urban expansion into previously undeveloped areas. This is especially the case in developing country contexts. Using the Jakarta Metropolitan Area as the case study context, we model the impact of capital possession by land developers on the location selection and unveil the way in which this exerts an effect on the spatial patterns of urban development. Through a hybrid agent-based and microeconomic modelling approach, different scenarios of capital possession and loans are simulated. Results show that areas with high values of return and low development costs are most likely to emerge as targeted locales. In order to result in measurable impact on the Jakarta Metropolitan Area urban footprint, developers need to possess a minimum capital investment of US$375 m allied with a 75% lending capacity. Results also reveal that the impact of the large land developers – those with in excess of US$750 m in capital that bring higher levels of lending leverage – extend the urban footprint in more predictable ways compared to land developers with less capital and lending capacity. Our study demonstrates the value of adopting an agent-based model to explore how human decisions at the in idual scale can influence the emergence of new urban forms in a rapidly developing metropolitan region.
Graphical models and Bayesian networks as a spatial analytical tool
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-07-2014
Spatial forecasting of residential urban fires: A Bayesian approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00420980211008820
Abstract: Neighbourhood places like shops, cafes and parks support a variety of social interactions ranging from the ephemeral to the intimate. Repeated interactions at neighbourhood places over time lay the foundation for the development of social cohesion and collective efficacy. In this study, we examine the proposition that changes in the presence or arrangement of neighbourhood places can destabilise social cohesion and collective efficacy, which has implications for crime. Using spatially integrated crime, social survey and parcel-level land-use classification data, we estimate mixed effects panel models predicting changes in theft and nuisance crimes across 147 Australian neighbourhoods. The findings are consistent with neighbourhood social control and crime opportunity theories. Neighbourhood development – indicated by fewer vacant properties and fewer industrial and agricultural sites – is associated with higher collective efficacy and less crime over time. Conversely, introducing more restaurants, transit stations and cinemas is associated with higher theft and nuisance over time regardless of neighbourhood collective efficacy. We argue that the addition of socially conducive places can leave neighbourhoods vulnerable to crime until new patterns of sociability emerge and collective efficacy develops.
Using routine activity theory to inform a conceptual understanding of the geography of fire events
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Integrating Undergraduate Fieldwork into the Study of Human Mobility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Heatwave-induced human health risk assessment in megacities based on heat stress-social vulnerability-human exposure framework
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Decline in internal migration levels in Australia: Compositional or behavioural effect?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-05-2020
DOI: 10.1002/PSP.2341
Abstract: Levels of internal migration have declined since the 1980s in many advanced economies. Australian studies remain largely descriptive, making it difficult to ascertain the extent to which the decline in aggregate levels of migration is due to shifts in the socio‐demographic composition of the Australian population or driven by deeper behavioural changes. This paper aims to address this gap by applying an Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition method to in idual‐level data from the 2001 and 2016 censuses. Our results confirm the strong impact of population ageing on the decline in migration although its effect has been fully counteracted by other compositional changes such as education and immigration. We find behavioural effects to be the principal factor explaining this downward trend. This finding points to a secular shift in migration behaviour and represents a starting point in developing a more comprehensive understanding of the factors underpinning the long‐term decline in internal migration in Australia.
Mapping spatial flows over time: a case study using journey-to-work data
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Estimating temporary populations: a systematic review of the empirical literature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-05-2020
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-020-0455-Y
Abstract: The estimation of temporary populations is a well-established field, but despite growing interest they are yet to form part of the standard suite of official population statistics. This systematic review seeks to review the empirical literature on temporary population estimation and identify the contemporary “state of the art”. We identify a total of 96 studies that attempt to estimate or describe a method of estimation. Our findings reveal strong growth in the number of studies in recent decades that in part has been driven by the rise in both the type and availability of new sources of information, including mobile phone data. What emerges from this systematic review is the lack of any “gold standard” data source or methodology for temporary population estimation. The review points to a number of important challenges that remain for estimating temporary populations, both conceptually and practically. What remains is the need for clear definitions along with identification of appropriate data and methods that are able to robustly capture and measure the erse array of spatial behaviours that drive temporary population dynamics. To our knowledge, this is the first review on this topic that brings together literature from various disciplines and collates methods used for estimation.
Not all those who Wander are lost: exploring human mobility using a smartphone application
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Measuring the spatial accessibility to fire stations using enhanced floating catchment method
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2020
Transport mode choice in South East Asia: Investigating the relationship between transport users' perception and travel behaviour in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
The times, they are a-changin’: tracking shifts in mental health signals from early phase to later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1136/BMJGH-2021-007081
Abstract: Widespread problems of psychological distress have been observed in many countries following the outbreak of COVID-19, including Australia. What is lacking from current scholarship is a national-scale assessment that tracks the shifts in mental health during the pandemic timeline and across geographic contexts. Drawing on 244 406 geotagged tweets in Australia from 1 January 2020 to 31 May 2021, we employed machine learning and spatial mapping techniques to classify, measure and map changes in the Australian public’s mental health signals, and track their change across the different phases of the pandemic in eight Australian capital cities. Australians’ mental health signals, quantified by sentiment scores, have a shift from pessimistic (early pandemic) to optimistic (middle pandemic), reflected by a 174.1% (95% CI 154.8 to 194.5) increase in sentiment scores. However, the signals progressively recessed towards a more pessimistic outlook (later pandemic) with a decrease in sentiment scores by 48.8% (95% CI 34.7 to 64.9). Such changes in mental health signals vary across capital cities. We set out a novel empirical framework using social media to systematically classify, measure, map and track the mental health of a nation. Our approach is designed in a manner that can readily be augmented into an ongoing monitoring capacity and extended to other nations. Tracking locales where people are displaying elevated levels of pessimistic mental health signals provide important information for the smart deployment of finite mental health services. This is especially critical in a time of crisis during which resources are stretched beyond normal bounds.
Equity of public transport costs before and after a fare policy reform: An empirical evaluation using smartcard data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
The temporality of place: Constructing a temporal typology of crime in commercial precincts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-05-2019
Abstract: Well established in criminological scholarship is the way that crime is neither spatially nor temporally uniformly distributed. Rather crime is distributed in a manner that means it is both particular places and particular times that are subject to the majority of crime events. Furthermore, we know that crime varies over the course of a day and week, with periods of time the same place can function as a crime generator, a crime attractor or as a crime detractor. What is less evident is the way in which some places ‘flip’ from a largely crime free space to one that provides the necessary preconditions for crime to occur. In this paper we focus on commercial precincts as the context, given their functional importance in our daily lives providing places of employment, recreation and a locus for social encounters. By spatially integrating crime incident data and census information and employing circular, clustering and spline regression techniques we examine the intensity, tempo and timing of crime in these locales and generate a temporal typology for 2286 commercial precincts across Queensland, Australia.
Applied Spatial Modelling and Planning
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2016
Spatially Disaggregating Employment Growth Estimates
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-12-2010
Abstract: Planning for and managing urban growth and development are major issues facing planners and policy makers in achieving a sustainable future for a metropolitan region. Significant impacts are found in metropolitan regions because of jobs-housing imbalances. Such imbalance occurs when residential areas are a considerable distance from locations of employment, and as a result there is a need for substantial commuter travel. This article develops an approach for estimating future jobs by sector in local areas under conditions of growth and change, assuming that commuters will seek greater efficiencies in the journey to work. An optimization modeling approach is proposed to identify scenarios of improved jobs-housing balance. An application is illustrated for the South East Queensland (SEQ) region of Australia.
Investigating the association between weather conditions, calendar events and socio-economic patterns with trends in fire incidence: an Australian case study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-12-2009
The semi-automated classification of sedimentary organic matter in palynological preparations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2005
Disentangling the behavioural side of the first and last mile problem: the role of modality style and the built environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
First and last mile travel mode choice: A systematic review of the empirical literature
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-06-2023
Modelling the Patterns and Drivers of Tourism Related Employment for South-East Queensland, Australia—A Spatial Econometric Approach
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Why do a PhD in geography? A sympathetic response to ‘the career aspirations and expectations of geography students’
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2018
Using circular statistics to analyse time patterns in crime incidence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2006
The role of household modality style in first and last mile travel mode choice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Examining the use of a geodemographic classification in an exploratory analysis of variations in fire incidence in South Wales, UK
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Relations between violence, calendar events and ambient conditions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2004
The Girl on the Bus: Familiar Faces in Daily Travel and Their Implications for Crime Protection
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-11-2020
Community social capital and individual functioning in the post-disaster context
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-11-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12317
Abstract: Disasters can have severe and long-lasting consequences for in iduals and communities. While scholarly evidence indicates that access to social support can ameliorate their negative impacts, less understood is whether or not neighbourhood social capital can facilitate recovery. This study uses two waves of survey data-collected before and after a significant flood in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011-to examine the relationship between the severity of the event at the in idual and neighbourhood level, access to neighbourhood social capital and in idual-level social support, and functioning in the post-disaster environment. In line with previous research, the results indicate that the severity of the flood is the most salient predictor of post-disaster functioning. No evidence was unearthed to show that neighbourhood social capital amassed before the flood leads to better functioning subsequently, but the findings do suggest that in idual-level social support can moderate the effect of flood severity on functioning.
A data fusion approach to the estimation of temporary populations: An application to Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 11-11-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0259377
Abstract: This study establishes a new method for estimating the monthly Average Population Present (APP) in Australian regions. Conventional population statistics, which enumerate people where they usually live, ignore the significant spatial mobility driving short term shifts in population numbers. Estimates of the temporary or ambient population of a region have several important applications including the provision of goods and services, emergency preparedness and serve as more appropriate denominators for a range of social statistics. This paper develops a flexible modelling framework to generate APP estimates from an integrated suite of conventional and novel data sources. The resultant APP estimates reveal the considerable seasonality in small area populations across Australia’s regions alongside the contribution of domestic and international visitors as well as absent residents to the observed monthly variations. The modelling framework developed in the paper is conceived in a manner such that it can be adapted and re-deployed both for use with alternative data sources as well as other situational contexts for the estimation of temporary populations.
Mapping Spatial Tourism and Hospitality Employment Clusters: An Application of Spatial Autocorrelation
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 12-11-2013
DOI: 10.3727/108354213X13782245307830
Abstract: This article analyzes the characteristics and spatial clustering of tourism and hospitality employment clusters in Victoria, Australia. Using cluster theory as the theoretical base, three interrelated research questions are specifically addressed: What industries constitute the tourism and hospitality sector? What broader “groupings” does the sector exhibit? Are these tourism and hospitality industries clustered around strategic areas of economic and resource advantage? Using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (at the four-digit level), industries explicitly related to tourism and hospitality were first identified and total numbers of in iduals working within these industries were aggregated at a level of Statistical Local Area (similar to a suburb or a neighborhood). Results show that in 2006 employment in tourism and hospitality equate to 7.74% of total employment in Australia. “Cafés and restaurants” (22%) is the single largest tourism and hospitality-related employer, followed by “takeaway food services” (20%) and “accommodation” (16%). Using factor analysis, four broader functions were extracted to characterize the underlying structure and functional interdependency among tourism and hospitality industries. These functions include: tourism operational services, hospitality services, entertainment services, and infrastructure operational facilities services. Spatial autocorrelation measures have identified five established tourism and hospitality spatial clusters in Victoria, which we argue hold the potential to act as tourism growth foci to create business synergy and generate spill-over effects through regional collaboration, competition, and sharing of pooled resources between firms.
The influence of weather on local geographical patterns of bus usage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Mobility Patterns of Overseas Human Capital in Australia: the role of a ‘new’ graduate visa scheme and rural development policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Disasters and crime: The effect of flooding on property crime in brisbane neighborhoods
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-03-2017
Subjectively Weighted Development Scenarios for Urban Allocation: A Case Study of South East Queensland
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-07-2007
The Use of Comaps to Explore the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Fire Incidents: A Case Study in South Wales, United Kingdom∗
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2007
Modelling the spatial dynamics of Mainland China-born migrants in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-09-2019
Greening the Commute: Assessing the Impact of the Eleanor Schonell ‘Green’ Bridge on Travel to the University of Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-06-2014
Investigating the Ipswich to Brisbane commuting pattern: A quantitative approach
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Foreign-Born graduates and innovation: Evidence from an Australian skilled visa program✰,✰✰,★,★★
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Weather and cycling in New York: The case of Citibike
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Graduate migration and regional development: an international perspective
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-05-2017
Neighbourhood correlates of average population walking: using aggregated, anonymised mobile phone data to identify where people walk
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPLACE.2022.102892
Abstract: Understanding and monitoring socio-spatial patterns of population walking mobility can inform urban planning and geographically targeted health promotion strategies aimed at increasing population levels of physical activity. In this study we use aggregated, anonymous mobile phone mobility data to examine the association between neighbourhood physical and social characteristics and residents' weekly walking behaviour across 313 neighbourhoods in a large metropolitan region of Queensland, Australia. We find that residents in neighbourhoods that are highly fragmented by streets with speed limits above 50 kmph, residents in neighbourhoods with high retail density and those living is economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods walk fewer kilometres and minutes on average per week than their counterparts. These findings can inform urban planning policy on the minimum specifications required in newly developing neighbourhoods and provide targets for retro-fitting features into existing neighbourhoods.
Community resilience to crime: A study of the 2011 Brisbane flood
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-06-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJCP.12610
Abstract: Understanding and enhancing community resilience is a global priority as societies encounter a rising number of extreme weather events. Given that these events are typically both sudden and unexpected, community resilience is typically examined after the disaster so there can be no before and after comparisons. As such, the extent to which existing community capacities buffer the effects of a traumatic event remains largely unexamined and untested in the literature. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 148 Brisbane suburbs, we examine the key community processes associated with community resilience to the crime before and after the 2011 Brisbane floods. We introduce a novel disaster severity index to simultaneously capture the direct and indirect impacts of the flood and embed this measure within our modeling framework. Results from the models provide important insights for predisaster preparedness and postdisaster rebuilding and recovery.
Mapping cities by transit riders’ trajectories: The case of Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-04-2017
Abstract: Emerging non-traditional data (NTD) such as transit agencies' smartcard data and Google's General Transit Feed Specifications (GTFS) have made it easier to unveil the way in which public transit remains relevant, reveal how it facilitates daily mobility, and highlight the way in which different locales across a metropolitan area are connected by public transit. Based on a 24-h period of smartcard data for Brisbane (4 March 2014) allied with GTFS data, we retrieved 205,560 distinct transit riders' trip trajectories by direction (AM/inbound vs. PM/outbound) in Brisbane, Australia. It visualises the trajectories using a waterpark metaphor, in that, like water, people flow downhill.
Mapping urban residential density patterns: Compact city model in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Analysing journey-to-work data using complex networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Modelling spatial access to General Practitioner surgeries: Does public transport availability matter?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Modeling the Influence of Weather on Transit Ridership: A Case Study from Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-06-2018
Disaggregate GIS modelling to track spatial change: exploring a decade of commuting in South East Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Spatial variations in cycling dissonance: The case of commuting in Greater Brisbane
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-12-2022
Crime and disorder in the suburbs
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-10-2021
Oil vulnerability: the effect of non-metropolitan areas and master planned estates in South East Queensland 2001–2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Setting the agenda for parking research in other cities
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Spatio-temporal patterns of a Public Bicycle Sharing Program: the effect of weather and calendar events
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Spatial analytical approaches in public bicycle sharing programs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Spatial optimisation of fire service coverage: a case study of Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2018
A Framework for Official Temporary Population Statistics
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 03-2020
Abstract: There is considerable demand for official statistics on temporary populations to supplement statistics on resident and working populations. Progress has been slow, with temporary population statistics not part of the standard suite of measures produced by national statistical offices. This article adopts the framework for official statistics proposed by Raymer and colleagues as a guide to aspects relating to society, concepts, data, processing, outputs and validation. The article proposes a conceptual framework linking temporary population mobility, defined as a move more than one night in duration that does not entail a change in usual residence, and temporary populations. Using Australia as an ex le, we discuss various dimensions of temporary mobility that complicate its measurement. We then report the outcomes of a survey of user needs for temporary population statistics along with a desktop review of OECD countries to identify the best formulation of temporary population statistics, and current international practice respectively. The article concludes by proposing two related concepts for temporary populations: population present and person-time, which overcome a number of issues currently impeding progress in this area and discuss their potential implementation.
Urban–rural disparity of social vulnerability to natural hazards in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-08-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-17878-6
Abstract: Assessing vulnerability to natural hazards is at the heart of hazard risk reduction. However, many countries such as Australia lack measuring systems to quantity vulnerability for hazard risk evaluation. Drawing on 41 indicators from multiple data sources at the finest spatial unit of the Australian census, we re-forged the Cutter’s classic vulnerability measuring framework by involving the ‘4D’ quantification of built environment ( ersity, design, density and distance), and constructed the first nationwide fine-grained measures of vulnerability for urban and rural locales, respectively. Our measures of vulnerability include five themes—(1) socioeconomic status (2) demographics and disability (3) minority and languages (4) housing characteristics and (5) built environment—that were further used to assess the inequality of vulnerability to three widely affected natural hazards in Australia (wildfires, floods, and earthquakes). We found the inequality of vulnerability in the affected areas of the three hazards in eight capital cities are more significant than that of their rural counterparts. The most vulnerable areas in capital cities were peri-urban locales which must be prioritised for hazard adaptation. Our findings contribute to the risk profiling and sustainable urban–rural development in Australia, and the broad understanding of place-based risk reduction in South Hemisphere.
Modelling urban change with cellular automata: Contemporary issues and future research directions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-12-2021
Abstract: The study of land use change in urban and regional systems has been dramatically transformed in the last four decades by the emergence and application of cellular automata (CA) models. CA models simulate urban land use changes which evolve from the bottom-up. Despite notable achievements in this field, there remain significant gaps between urban processes simulated in CA models and the actual dynamics of evolving urban systems. This article identifies contemporary issues faced in developing urban CA models and draws on this evidence to map out four interrelated thematic areas that require concerted attention by the wider CA urban modelling community. These are: (1) to build models that comprehensively capture the multi-dimensional processes of urban change, including urban regeneration, densification and gentrification, in-fill development, as well as urban shrinkage and vertical urban growth (2) to establish models that incorporate in idual human decision behaviours into the CA analytic framework (3) to draw on emergent sources of ‘big data’ to calibrate and validate urban CA models and to capture the role of human actors and their impact on urban change dynamics and (4) to strengthen theory-based CA models that comprehensively explain urban change mechanisms and dynamics. We conclude by advocating cellular automata that embed agent-based models and big data input as the most promising analytical framework through which we can enhance our understanding and planning of the contemporary urban change dynamics.
Modelling Potential Socio‐economic Determinants of Building Fires in South East Queensland
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2010
State of the Art and Future Challenges of Interregional Migration Empirical Research in Oceania
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Has the decline in the intensity of internal migration been accompanied by changes in reasons for migration?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-05-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S12546-022-09285-5
Abstract: The last few decades have seen the intensity of internal migration decline in Australia and other advanced economies including the United States. Recent evidence suggests that changes in the composition of the population alone do not account for this persistent downward trend. This has led migration scholars to suspect that more profound behavioural changes driven by social, economic, and technological transformations are at play and that shifts in migration behaviour are likely to be reflected in changes in reasons for migration. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to shed new light on the factors driving the decline in internal migration in Australia between 2002 and 2018. This is done by examining annual trends in self-reported reasons for intrastate and interstate migration and applying a series of pooled logistic regressions. Results reveal a decline across all reasons for migration, and not only employment-related migration contrary to explanations proposed in the extant literature. The decline in employment-related migration does not appear to be the result of a rise in alternative forms of mobility such as teleworking or substitution with inter-industry or occupation mobility. Furthermore, we also find that the negative effect of duration of residence has increased for family-related migration. Collectively, these findings suggest that behavioural change, particularly increased place attachment, may have contributed to the decline in internal migration.
Mapping and measuring place attachment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Examining the social porosity of environmental features on neighborhood sociability and attachment
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 10-01-2014
Measuring and visualising ‘familiar strangers’ among transit riders: An exploratory study of Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Examining spatio-temporal patterns, drivers and trends of residential fires in South East Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-09-2018
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to examine the changing spatio-temporal patterns and regional trends in residential fires and second is to investigate the likely association of fire risk with seasons, calendar events and socio-economic disadvantage. Using spatial analytic and predictive techniques, 11 years of fire incident data supplied by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are mapped and analysed. The results show significant spatial and temporal variability in the distribution of residential fires. Residential fire incidents are more likely to occur in the inner city and across more disadvantaged areas. Mapped outputs show some areas in Brisbane at a higher risk of fire than others and that the risk of fire escalates at specific times of the year, in neighbourhoods with a higher disadvantage, during major sporting events and school holidays. The residential fires showed strong seasonal periodicity. There is a continuous yet gradual increase in the number of fire incidents recorded for all five sub-regions within SEQ. Sunshine Coast experienced the highest upward trend whereas Toowoomba and West Moreton show the lowest increase. This study provides an empirical basis to guide future operational strategies through targeting high fire risk areas at particular times. This, in turn, will help utilise finite resources in areas where and when they need and thus enable minimise emergency management costs.
Using circular statistics to explore the geography of the journey to work*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-02-2009
Living Near Violence and Feeling Safe: What is the Role of Active Guardianship in the Home Territory?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-01-2022
Locational patterns of new graduate employment and regional economic performance in Australia
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2011
The temporality of on-street parking – exploring the role of land-use mix and change on parking dynamics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/23998083221112957
Abstract: Parking is often overlooked by urban researchers even though parking consumes large proportions of a city’s physical footprint and imposes a significant impediment to more sustainable travel. Underpinning this lack of attention is suitable data and methods capable of capturing the complex dynamics of parking. Here we redress this gap by drawing on an emergent source of parking data and deploying empirical techniques to unpack this complexity. Data from 3542 on-street parking sensors observed over a 9-year period are used to delineate the first typology of parking routines before using a fixed-effects logistic regression model to explain how nearby land-use types and land-use mix shapes tempo and timing of parking utilisation. The benefit of our approach lies in its capacity to discriminate broad types of temporal rhythms associated with parking dynamics at particular places, how these change over time and how these rhythms are associated with different types and mixes of nearby land use. This knowledge is important to inform policies seeking to optimise the use of on-street parking and invoke more sustainable patterns of mobility.
Shifting dynamics of Chinese settlement in Australia: an urban geographic perspective
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-09-2018
To travel or not to travel: ‘Weather’ is the question. Modelling the effect of local weather conditions on bus ridership
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Weather to scoot? How weather shapes shared e-scooter ridership patterns
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Greenspace and Crime
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2016
Abstract: There is a growing interest in the relationship between greenspace and crime, yet how particular greenspace types encourage or inhibit the timing and types of greenspace crime remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon recent advances in environmental criminology, we introduce an integrated suite of methods to examine the spatial, temporal, and neighborhood dynamics of greenspace crime. We collate administrative, census, and crime incident data and employ cluster analysis, circular statistics, and negative binomial regression to examine violent, public nuisance, property, and drug crimes within 4,265 greenspaces across Brisbane, Australia. We find that greenspace amenities, neighborhood social composition, and the presence of proximate crime generators influence the frequency and timing of greenspace crime. Our analyses reveal that particular types of greenspaces are more crime prone than others. We argue that this is largely due to the presence of amenities within greenspaces allied with the sociodemographic context of surrounding neighborhoods. We conclude that understanding how these factors influence the behaviors of potential offenders, victims, and guardians is necessary to better understand the spatial distribution of greenspace crime and provide an evidence base for crime prevention initiatives.
Route choice stickiness of public transport passengers: Measuring habitual bus ridership behaviour using smart card data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Modelling tourism and hospitality employment clusters: a spatial econometric approach
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-11-2016
Success and Evolution of a Boundary Organization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-08-2015
Abstract: This article challenges the idea that success of boundary organizations is marked primarily by the stability of the science–policy interface. We review key theory in the literature on boundary work and boundary organizations. We then present a case, the Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) in South East Tasmania, Australia, to explore the evolution of successful boundary organization. We detail how a science-oriented program of work achieved success, through early wins that cemented its support and created a relatively stable entity able to navigate the expansion of its remit from managing controversy to implementing an integrated, systems approach to coastal zone management. The creation of “safe spaces” enabled contentious situations to be negotiated through well-established relationships and processes. The interaction among these elements, supported by exemplary leadership, was critical to reframing the problem. We suggest that it is through these abilities to navigate controversy and mediate among ergent interests, while maintaining a committed focus on science, that boundary organizations can succeed. Success in this context is achieved through using credible science to reframe problems. Success is further indicated not just by surviving periodic controversies but by being able to benefit from them, building legitimacy among partners and stakeholders through successfully navigating unforeseen events.
Probabilistic methods of analysis for the time series Moran scatterplot quadrant signature
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2015
DOI: 10.1002/ENV.2302
A Toolkit for Measuring Visitation in Third Places
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-02-2021
Correction: Estimating temporary populations: a systematic review of the empirical literature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-10-2020
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-020-00538-3
Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
A season for complaints: how does weather affect noise complaints between neighbours?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Date: 25-06-2021
Abstract: Both built environment and natural environment have physiological and psychological effect on human behaviour, which potentially affect their sensitivity and tolerance to surrounding noise, and leads to annoyance, nuisance, distress or overt actions and aggressive behaviours such as noise complaints to people living neighborly. This study aims to explore the extent weather conditions affect the prevalence of noise complaints between neighbours mediated through neighbourhood built environment. Using Brisbane, Australia as a study case, we draw on the large-scale administrative dataset in 2016 to explore the monthly and seasonal variations of noise complaints between neighbours, and employ a step-wise multiple regression to analyse the extent weather factors affect noise complaints. Our findings show that neighbours largely complain about noise made by animals and such complaints most frequently appear in March to May, the autumn season in the South Hemisphere. Built environment plays a primary role on noise complaints and culturally erse suburbs with less green space tend to have a higher likelihood of neighbour complaints in spring and summer such a likelihood is further increased by a higher level of wind, humidity, and temperature in a yearly frame. However, the effect of weather on animal and non-animal related noise complaints in different seasons is less consistent. Our findings, to a certain degree, reveal that weather conditions may serve as a psychological moderator to change people’s tolerance and sensitivity on noise, alter their routine activities and exposure to noise sources, and further affect the likelihood of imposing noise complaints between neighbours.
Seaport resilience to climate change: mapping vulnerability to sea-level rise
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-08-2015
Integrating road carrying capacity and traffic congestion into the excess commuting framework: The case of Los Angeles
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-05-2018
Abstract: The excess commuting framework has advanced a series of metrics through which a city or a region’s jobs-housing balance and commuting efficiency can be measured. This study seeks to add to the conceptual development and extension of the excess commuting framework. Specifically, it considers the carrying capacity (of links) and related congestion issues in the excess commuting framework and demonstrates that overlooking these characteristics has important implications for excess commuting metrics. Drawing on an empirical case study, it shows that when carrying capacity and traffic congestion are accounted for, the observed commute is longer than otherwise. Excess commuting tends to be higher than its counterparts in previous excess commuting studies. The findings suggest that future excess commuting studies should take account of carrying capacity and congestion in determining excess commuting metrics. Moreover, high-quality connections (preferably via public transport) between jobs and housing allied with sufficient carrying capacity of popular links/routes for commuters are crucial preconditions for cities and regions to harvest the full benefits of jobs-housing balance policies targeted at the reduction of the average commute distance and vehicle miles travelled.
A Geographically Weighted Regression Method to Spatially Disaggregate Regional Employment Forecasts for South East Queensland
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-11-2008
Capturing temporary populations: assessing the utility of Facebook in the 2019 flood in Townsville, Australia
Publisher: Australian Population Studies
Date: 16-11-2200
DOI: 10.37970/APS.V4I2.70
Abstract: No abstract
Sectoral evolution and shifting service delivery models in the sharing economy
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S40685-020-00110-4
Abstract: The rise of the sharing economy has had transformative impacts on extant service delivery models, with wide ranging implications for existing firms, regulators, and the workforce at large. This paper draws upon firm-level data to better understand how new forms of service delivery have accompanied the diffusion of the sharing economy. Unlike previous waves of technological innovation, sharing economy firms have emerged as digital intermediaries rather than direct service providers driven by shifting consumer practices and attitudes. We apply an innovation diffusion model to trace the development trajectory of the sharing economy across 1000 firms. Our model segments the evolution of the sharing economy into three distinct and overlapping phases, comprising an Embryonic Stage (1995–2008), an Early Growth Stage (2007–2015), and most recently a Late Growth Stage (2014–present). Analysis of the 1000 firms reveals that the sharing economy has rapidly gained momentum across all industry sectors, with its growth trajectory principally tied to the evolution of related financial and technological innovations paralleled by social adoption. We find that service delivery models differ considerably between sectors, with professional services favouring business-oriented models, and consumables oriented more towards peer sharing. Though peer-to-peer (P2P) has been the dominant model, this is changing as larger firms enter the market and existing firms become industry leaders. We argue that while the marginal cost of new transactions within a P2P structure is low, barriers to market entry become ever-higher as sharing economy service delivery models are increasingly embedded within the mainstream economy.
Greenspace and Place Attachment: Do Greener Suburbs Lead to Greater Residential Place Attachment?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2014
Special issue on youth and graduate migration
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-10-2017
The use of spatial analytical techniques to explore patterns of fire incidence: A South Wales case study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2007
Contemporary parking policy, practice, and outcomes in three large Australian cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Transport-related walking among young adults: when and why?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-02-2020
DOI: 10.1186/S12889-020-8338-0
Abstract: The existing smartphones’ technology allows for the objective measurement of a person’s movements at a fine-grained level of geographic and temporal detail, and in doing so, it mitigates the issues associated with self-report biases and lack of spatial details. This study proposes and evaluates the advantages of using a smartphone app for collecting accurate, fine-grained, and objective data on people’s transport-related walking. A s le of 142 participants (mostly young adults) was recruited in a large Australian university, for whom the app recorded all their travel activities over two weekdays during August–September 2014. We identified eight main activity nodes which operate as transport-related walking generators. We explored the participants’ transport-related walking patterns around and between these activity nodes through the use of di-graphs to better understand patterns of incidental physical activity and opportunities for intervention to increase incidental walking. We found that the educational node — in other s les may be represented by the workplace — is as important as the residential node for generating walking trips. We also found that the likelihood of transport-related walking trips is larger during the daytime, whereas at night time walking trips tend to be longer. We also showed that patterns of transport-related walking relate to the presence of ‘chaining’ trips in the afternoon period. The findings of this study show how the proposed data collection and analytic approach can inform urban design to enhance walkability at locations that are likely to generate walking trips. This study’s insights can help to shape public education and awareness c aigns that aim to encourage walking trips throughout the day by suggesting locations and times of the day when engaging in these forms of exercise is easiest and least intrusive.
The influence of weather conditions on adult transit ridership in the sub-tropics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
The association between smoke alarm presence and injury and death rates: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Airbnb and micro‐entrepreneurship in regional economies: Lessons from Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-09-2021
Abstract: Having begun as a short‐term rental platform in major cities, Airbnb has now extended to many remote and regional areas of Australia. One effect of this spread has been disruption to the conventional rental industry, which stimulates micro‐entrepreneurship in local communities directly through short‐term accommodation and indirectly through related industries. Given Australia’s core–periphery settlement structure, resulting from the country’s historical development, disruption through entrepreneurship has relatively more potential in remote and regional areas. This article uses the Porter diamond model to explain how Airbnb‐led micro‐entrepreneurship interacts with territorially embedded socioeconomic characteristics across regional and remote Australia. Drawing on Airbnb data for Australia between 2014 and 2018 at the scale of regional labour markets, we use a quantile regression model to explain the association between Airbnb‐led micro‐entrepreneurship and four distinct structural dimensions between metropolitan and non‐metropolitan regions. The analysis provides evidence that non‐metropolitan regions have certain stronger competitive advantages for attracting Airbnb‐led micro‐entrepreneurship compared with metropolitan regions, particularly across regional cities and in areas associated with mining, agriculture, and tourism. We conclude that policymakers should weigh concerns relating to peer‐to‐peer accommodation in major metropolitan regions against the purported benefits to peripheral regions.
How does our natural and built environment affect the use of bicycle sharing?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Special issue on spatial analytical approaches in urban fire management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Scale Mismatches, Conservation Planning, and the Value of Social-Network Analyses
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2012.01964.X
Abstract: Many of the challenges conservation professionals face can be framed as scale mismatches. The problem of scale mismatch occurs when the planning for and implementation of conservation actions is at a scale that does not reflect the scale of the conservation problem. The challenges in conservation planning related to scale mismatch include ecosystem or ecological process transcendence of governance boundaries limited availability of fine-resolution data lack of operational capacity for implementation lack of understanding of social-ecological system components threats to ecological ersity that operate at erse spatial and temporal scales mismatch between funding and the long-term nature of ecological processes rate of action implementation that does not reflect the rate of change of the ecological system lack of appropriate indicators for monitoring activities and occurrence of ecological change at scales smaller or larger than the scale of implementation or monitoring. Not recognizing and accounting for these challenges when planning for conservation can result in actions that do not address the multiscale nature of conservation problems and that do not achieve conservation objectives. Social networks link organizations and in iduals across space and time and determine the scale of conservation actions thus, an understanding of the social networks associated with conservation planning will help determine the potential for implementing conservation actions at the required scales. Social-network analyses can be used to explore whether these networks constrain or enable key social processes and how multiple scales of action are linked. Results of network analyses can be used to mitigate scale mismatches in assessing, planning, implementing, and monitoring conservation projects.
A landscape connectivity approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-04-2022
Modelling spatial fragmentation of the Brisbane housing market
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Crime and bus stops: An examination using transit smart card and crime data
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-11-2021
Abstract: Bus stops are considered “risky places” given their propensity to generate opportunities for crime and attract would-be offenders. In this study we examine crime across a large network of bus stops (n = 7170) in Brisbane, Australia. We use smart card and land use data to measure the influence of passenger presence and features of the immediate bus stop environs on theft and property damage at bus stops during peak and off-peak travel periods. We find that when more passengers are present at stops, there is greater risk of theft but there is no effect of passenger presence on property damage. We conclude that factors associated with crime at bus stops vary based on time of day.
How does weather affect bikeshare use? A comparative analysis of forty cities across climate zones
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Living near violence: How proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Urban growth in the Brisbane–South East Queensland region and its implications for emergency services provision: a Geographic Information Systems-based approach
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-10-2012
Using WeChat Data to Understand Residential Mobility of Mainland China-Born Migrants in Australia: A Segmented Assimilation Perspective
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-01-2021
Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-07-2018
Abstract: This paper explores the association between neighbourhood land use features and informal social control. More specifically, we examine the extent to which such features in combination with the socio-demographic context of the neighbourhood facilitate or impede collective efficacy and local civic actions. We achieve this through spatially integrating data from the census, topographic databases and a 2012 survey of 4132 residents from 148 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia. The study creates a new classification of a neighbourhood’s physical environment by creating novel categories of land use features that depict social conduits, social holes and social wedges. Social conduits are features of the neighbourhood that facilitate interaction between in iduals, social holes are land uses that create situations where there is no occupancy, and social wedges are features that carve up neighbourhoods. We find some evidence to suggest that residents’ reports of collective efficacy are higher in neighbourhoods with a greater density of social conduits. Density of social conduits is also positively associated with local civic action. However, in neighbourhoods with more greenspace, residents are less likely to engage in local civic actions.
Why are cities removing their freeways? A systematic review of the literature
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2020
Forty years of internal migration in Australian regions: a sequence analysis of net migration, turnover, and retention
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
Fire incidence in metropolitan areas: A comparative study of Brisbane (Australia) and Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Human Capital in Remote and Rural Australia: The Role of Graduate Migration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-05-2010
Parking Behavior: Park ‘n’ Ride (PnR) to encourage multimodalism in Brisbane
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
Special issue on global transitions of urban mobility and land use
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
Trapped in Jobless Household Areas: the spatio-temporal dynamics of children in jobless households in metropolitan Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Docked and dockless public bike-sharing schemes: research, practice and discourse
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 10-12-2020
Predicting the geo-temporal variations of crime and disorder
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2003
Wander: A Smartphone App for Sensing Sociability
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2018
Measuring access to primary healthcare services after stroke: A spatial analytic approach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 28-05-2019
Abstract: To determine accessibility of the primary healthcare system for patients with stroke recently discharged from hospital. This project mapped retrospective patient location data and the location of primary healthcare services in the same region. Patient location data were from all patients with stroke ( N = 1595: January 2011–January 2017) discharged from one metropolitan hospital to the local Primary Health Network. Geographic Information System technology was used to map the patient discharge locations and the spatial distribution of primary healthcare services (general practitioner, pharmacy, allied health) across the region. Road network data were used to measure the level of access from each patient’s discharge location to the services. Access to primary healthcare services was variable. Areas with larger proportions of patients with stroke did not necessarily have good service access. With an increase in travel time, the number of services accessible to patients also increased. However, the spatial variation of access to services remained largely unchanged. Access to primary healthcare services for patients with stroke varies spatially, with a trend towards relatively low levels of accessibility for many patients. There is an urgent need for future planning to consider geographical access to primary healthcare services for patients with stroke.
The evidence for smoke alarm type: photoelectric vs ionisation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Tourist Movement: An Application of Circular Statistics
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 06-2010
DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12724734223676
Abstract: This article explores temporal variability, referred to as temporal dynamics, in the movement patterns of tourists. Circular statistics were used to compute circular mean times and dispersions for different groups of tourists using data collected with Global Positioning Systems receivers at Port C bell national Park in Victoria, Australia over a 2-day period. The results indicate that there is a tendency for tourists to visit the site around noon. The differences in the circular mean times computed for different regions and for different types of tourist are not significant. Nonetheless, kernel density estimation plots enabled variability, exhibited in terms of peak time and modality in patterns of visitor use, to be detected.
The returns to migration and human capital accumulation pathways: non-metropolitan youth in the school-to-work transition
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-06-2016
3D space–time visualization of individual settlement pathways of Mainland China-born migrants in Queensland, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-10-2019
Abstract: The number of migrants from Mainland China (MC) to Australia have been sharply increasing since 2000 and MC became the largest non-Commonwealth source country in 2011. The integration process of migrants to the host society involves the exposure and movement of migrants to the majority, which is reflected by the settlement pathways of migrants moving from ethnic to non-ethnic communities over time. Most of the existing research regarding migrants’ pathways is constrained by the limitations of cross-sectional data, which are usually available at the community or above levels. Little is known about the in idual-level settlement pathways of migrants due to lack of data availability. In order to address this deficit, a 3D visualization is used to express the in idual pathways of MC-born migrants based on primary survey data. This enables a more detailed, spatio-temporal picture of how long migrants live at each address and how they move across neighbourhoods.
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End Date: 05-2021
Amount: $190,000.00
Summary: Transitions of mobility and parking. Transitions of mobility and parking. This project aims to understand the role of parking in mobility, urban consolidation and transit-oriented development. Does parking supply affect travel demand, car ownership, and ultimately urban quality of life? New transitions and trends in land-use and transport, including car-sharing and automated vehicles, and the revival of urban living, raise important questions about the redesign and reuse of urban space. This pro .... Transitions of mobility and parking. Transitions of mobility and parking. This project aims to understand the role of parking in mobility, urban consolidation and transit-oriented development. Does parking supply affect travel demand, car ownership, and ultimately urban quality of life? New transitions and trends in land-use and transport, including car-sharing and automated vehicles, and the revival of urban living, raise important questions about the redesign and reuse of urban space. This project aims to give policy-makers an evidence base and toolkit to determine how best to repurpose the space currently accommodating private cars. This project is expected to make cities more attractive, efficient and liveable, improving a disproportionately large number of Australian lives. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883861
Start Date: 10-2008
End Date: 10-2011
Amount: $110,691.00
Summary: Enhanced agency response strategies through modelling geo-temporal characteristics of emergency services calls. Understanding the timing and geographic distribution of emergency calls to agencies such as Fire, Police and Ambulance, is critical to improving emergency response and developing effective preventive strategies. In turn, improved response and prevention strategies can help save lives and minimise economic costs. This project uses advanced geographic and statistical methods to analyse f .... Enhanced agency response strategies through modelling geo-temporal characteristics of emergency services calls. Understanding the timing and geographic distribution of emergency calls to agencies such as Fire, Police and Ambulance, is critical to improving emergency response and developing effective preventive strategies. In turn, improved response and prevention strategies can help save lives and minimise economic costs. This project uses advanced geographic and statistical methods to analyse fire incidents and develop the evidence base necessary to inform effective response and prevention strategies. The project will critically assist emergency fire response, but will also provide a case study that can be adapted for other kinds of emergency response. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100830
Start Date: 01-2021
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $365,706.00
Summary: Everyday guardianship: A space time approach to crime prevention . This project aims to identify the temporal and spatial elements that influence the crime prevention actions of private citizens. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and applying a cutting edge methodology, it will be the first study to consider the capacity and availability of capable guardians and their intersection with the environmental contexts they frequent. The project intends to generate new knowledge on the resources nee .... Everyday guardianship: A space time approach to crime prevention . This project aims to identify the temporal and spatial elements that influence the crime prevention actions of private citizens. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and applying a cutting edge methodology, it will be the first study to consider the capacity and availability of capable guardians and their intersection with the environmental contexts they frequent. The project intends to generate new knowledge on the resources needed to ensure individuals can effectively respond to problems when and where they occur. Given the enormous costs of crime to society, the expected outcomes of this project will lead to the development of economically efficient and practical community crime prevention programs that benefit the wider community. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE160100174
Start Date: 04-2016
End Date: 08-2017
Amount: $805,000.00
Summary: Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure. Urban analytics data infrastructure: This project aims to develop an urban analytics data infrastructure that builds on the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network. This digital data infrastructure intends to enable the integration, harmonisation, connectivity and scalability of multi-source urban datasets. This infrastructure is required to underpin the next generation of data-driven modelling and decision-support tools to enable the design of smar .... Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure. Urban analytics data infrastructure: This project aims to develop an urban analytics data infrastructure that builds on the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network. This digital data infrastructure intends to enable the integration, harmonisation, connectivity and scalability of multi-source urban datasets. This infrastructure is required to underpin the next generation of data-driven modelling and decision-support tools to enable the design of smart, productive and resilient cities. These capabilities are predicated on the adoption of ISO standards, development of new ontological frameworks and an urban data dictionary to enable semantic inferencing of datasets and the development of data structures and services. This framework would then be applied to data relevant to people, land and urban infrastructure to support comparative and multi-dimensional analytics. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101293
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 12-2019
Amount: $295,137.00
Summary: Barriers and Facilitators of Neighbourhood Networks and Cohesion. Neighbourhoods are critical contexts for health, safety and well-being. In the face of significant urban growth, understanding and enhancing neighbourhood networks and cohesion are high priorities in Australia and internationally. Drawing on longitudinal survey data from 148 Brisbane suburbs combined with census and spatial data, this project will be the first to examine how a neighbourhood's physical and socio-structural context .... Barriers and Facilitators of Neighbourhood Networks and Cohesion. Neighbourhoods are critical contexts for health, safety and well-being. In the face of significant urban growth, understanding and enhancing neighbourhood networks and cohesion are high priorities in Australia and internationally. Drawing on longitudinal survey data from 148 Brisbane suburbs combined with census and spatial data, this project will be the first to examine how a neighbourhood's physical and socio-structural context influences neighbourhood networks and cohesion over time and across the landscape of an entire city. The project aims to advance scientific understanding of neighbourhood networks and cohesion, provide unique insights into its underpinning drivers, and inform urban policy. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160100305
Start Date: 11-2016
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $212,000.00
Summary: Estimating temporary populations. Estimating temporary populations. Drawing on new and emerging sources of data, this project aims to develop a novel series of population estimates for Australian regions and localities that encompasses visitors and other temporary movements, and complement existing estimates of resident populations. It will clarify user needs, evaluate data quality, apply metrics to capture key forms of temporary mobility, and integrate symptomatic data to estimate the timing an .... Estimating temporary populations. Estimating temporary populations. Drawing on new and emerging sources of data, this project aims to develop a novel series of population estimates for Australian regions and localities that encompasses visitors and other temporary movements, and complement existing estimates of resident populations. It will clarify user needs, evaluate data quality, apply metrics to capture key forms of temporary mobility, and integrate symptomatic data to estimate the timing and magnitude of population flux at local and regional levels. These results are expected to advance the science of population estimation and have direct practical relevance to planning, while positioning Australia at the forefront in addressing a growing global information need. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100506
Start Date: 06-2020
End Date: 06-2024
Amount: $302,343.00
Summary: Who Benefits from the Sharing Economy? Disruption in Australian Cities. Technological disruption has created new possibilities for employment and social interaction in cities, yet comes with many associated challenges for policymakers. This project aims to formulate a critical understanding of the sharing economy as a disruptive social, economic, and political process in Australian cities. The project team will apply advanced spatial analytics and theoretical approaches to three distinct facets .... Who Benefits from the Sharing Economy? Disruption in Australian Cities. Technological disruption has created new possibilities for employment and social interaction in cities, yet comes with many associated challenges for policymakers. This project aims to formulate a critical understanding of the sharing economy as a disruptive social, economic, and political process in Australian cities. The project team will apply advanced spatial analytics and theoretical approaches to three distinct facets of the sharing economy, providing new empirical evidence to explain transformative change in cities. It applies a geographical lens to create to new knowledge regarding who benefits from the sharing economy, and how progressive regulation can enhance the outcomes of disruptive technologies. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120100990
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 09-2016
Amount: $427,695.00
Summary: What makes a community resilient? Examining changes in the adaptive capacities of Brisbane suburbs before and after the 2011 flood. This project will be the first study to examine the key community processes and structures associated with community resilience both before and after the 2011 Brisbane floods. Drawing on a longitudinal study of Brisbane suburbs, it will critically assess the conditions under which suburban communities respond to and recover from a major disaster.
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101440
Start Date: 03-2016
End Date: 12-2020
Amount: $270,477.00
Summary: So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries. This project plans to analyse national graduate employment in Australia’s creative and cultural industries, and compare the utility of 'creative' and 'cultural' models for tracking employment outcomes. Although the image of work in the creative and cultural industries is attractive to students and course planners alike, international evidence suggests graduates face very poor employment prospects. The project plans to use a pr .... So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries. This project plans to analyse national graduate employment in Australia’s creative and cultural industries, and compare the utility of 'creative' and 'cultural' models for tracking employment outcomes. Although the image of work in the creative and cultural industries is attractive to students and course planners alike, international evidence suggests graduates face very poor employment prospects. The project plans to use a proven model for mapping creative graduates to compare the value of creative degrees for the creative workforce in two nations, Australia and the United Kingdom; and to use sophisticated quantitative analysis of national datasets and interviews to produce a comprehensive study of creative graduate work. Read more Read less
Funder: Australian Research Council
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