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Aerial comparison of photo and Ghost Neighborhoods model
By Kennedy Cole

In a newly published paper in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, titled “Using Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Urban Historical Research and Reconstructions: A Review and Case Study,” CURA…

Sanborn Map
By Kennedy Cole

In a new paper in the International Journal of Digital Humanities, CURA Director Harvey Miller and Associate Director Ningchuan Xiao, along with CURA staff and Graduate Research Assistants, use…

Shelbi Toone
By Kennedy Cole

Recently, CURA's Ghost Neighborhoods project was featured in a Columbus Dispatch article. The story covered the upcoming groundbreaking of the Poindexter Village African American Museum. The…

Summer Ha demonstrating the Poindexter Village VR
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

This week, CURA's Ghost Neighborhoods project was featured in a story on Spectrum News. CURA Director Harvey Miller, CURA GRA Summer Ha, and CURA Outreach Coordinator Jordan Swaim-Fox are quoted…

Houses in Columbus, Ohio
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a recent blog post, New America highlighted their work with CURA and the JusticeTech program at the Moritz College of Law within the Eviction Data Response Network. Through this partnership,…

Map of Newcastle, UK
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a new paper in the journal, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, former CURA visiting scholar Kristina Wolf et al. offer a case study of the Smart City Operating System (SCOS) awarded to Columbus,…

Gia Barboza-Salerno
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

CURA Faculty Affiliate, Gia Barboza-Salerno, recently had her work featured by the National Criminal Justice Association. Along with co-authors Sharefa Duhaney and Hexin Yang, Barboza-Salerno…

Tables from CURA research paper
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a new paper in the journal, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, former CURA GRA Amrita Kar, CURA Associate Director Ningchuan Xiao, CURA Director Harvey Miller, and CURA Faculty Affiliate…

A neighborhood in east Toledo, Ohio, with an oil refinery in the background.
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

This week, an article was published in the Ohio State News about a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine consensus study report co-chaired by CURA Director, Harvey Miller. The…

Map of transit accessibility
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a new paper in the journal Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, former CURA GRA Luyu Liu and CURA Director Harvey Miller measure the contribution of individual transit…

Graphic included in the Evaluating Accessibility Benefits paper
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a new paper in the journal Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, former CURA GRAs Luyu Liu and Jinhyung Lee and CURA Director Harvey Miller analyze the accessibility benefits of using…

Visual abstract
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In November, an article was published in the journal, Obesity Surgery, co-authored by CURA faculty affiliate, Keeley Pratt; CURA Director, Harvey Miller; Andrew Hanks; Brian Focht; Sabrena Noria;…

Map showing transit unreliability
By Jordan Swaim-Fox

In a paper, just published in the Journal of Transport Geography, researchers calculate two space-time prism-based measures to gauge the resilience of public transit systems. The article was…

Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of opioid overdose events using a regionalized sequence alignment analysis
By Gerika Logan

In August, an article was published in the journal Social Science & Medicine co-authored by former CURA GRA, Yuchen Li, CURA Director, Harvey Miller, CURA Faculty Affiliate, Ayaz Hyder, and Peng…

Map of Armita Kar disertation
By Gerika Logan

In August, an article was published in the journal Annals of the American Association of Geographers co-authored by former CURA GRA, Armita Kar, CURA Faculty Affiliate, Huyen Le, and CURA Director…

Rongjun Qin
By Gerika Logan

This month, CURA Faculty Affiliate Rongjun Qin, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for an open-source toolkit for underwater 3D ecosystem modeling and analysis. Learn more at the…

3D visualization of Columbus Neighborhoods
By Gerika Logan

In a paper, just published in PLOS ONE, CURA researchers develop machine learning techniques that can turn historical fire insurance maps of US cities into digital 3D urban models, at scale. This…

Map showing the amount of times wheelchair ramps are deployed on a COTA Bus

This week, an article was published in the Journal of Transport Geography. This article was authored by CURA graduate researchers, Luyu Lui, Armita Kar, and Ahmad Ilderim Tokey; CURA faculty…

State of Ohio Integrated Behavioral Health Dashboard

This week, CURA Faculty Affiliate, Bridget Freisthler, lead a team that launched the State of Ohio Integrated Behavioral Health Dashboard. These statewide dashboards were adopted and expanded from…

Surgery for Obesity and related Diseases

This month, an article was published in the journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. Keeley Pratt served as the lead author, and CURA director, Harvey Miller, participated as a co-author…

Urban Institute

Last week, the Urban Institute released the paper, Filling Public Data GapsOpportunities and Challenges in Using Private-Sector Data for Racial Equity. In this report, they explore the…

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This past week, Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) and Lincoln Insititute of Land Policy released a white paper, Building Equity: Equitable Real Estate Development Strategies for Weak Markets. …

Man in front of crosswalk sign

This week, CURA was featured in an article by Pew Trust. This article discussed the study Lower Volumes, Higher Speeds: Changes to Crash Type, Timing, and Severity on Urban Roads from COVID-19…

Harvey being interviewed

This week, CURA attended the YWCA Activists and Agitators 2022 ‘Confronting Our Past, Constructing Our Future’, Un-Design the Redline Ribbon Cutting event. Un-design the Redline is an interactive…

 An example of last-mile increment (red: walking trips with slower speed; blue: dockless vehicle trip with higher speed; green: bus trip with highest speed).

This month, an article was published in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, co-authored by previous CURA Graduate Researcher, Luyu Liu, and Director, Harvey Miller. This study…

Person sitting on bus

This month, an article was published in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment co-authored by CURA director, co-authored by CURA Director Harvey Miller. This study…

Ohio Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Jonathan Stiles (Florida Atlantic University) and Harvey Miller presented their research on “How does street space influence crash frequency? An analysis using segmented street view imagery,” to…

Street Imagery

A new paper co-authored by CURA director, Harvey Miller, has been published in the Journal of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Abstract: Road…

Spatial distribution of six perceptual indicators derived from Google Streetview images. Scores are standardized into 0–10 range, with larger numbers corresponding to higher correspondence with the indicator.

A new article co-authored by CURA director, Harvey Miller, has been published in the journal Health & Place. This study looked at how the opioid health crisis in Franklin County is spatially…

Bus Rapid Transit Systems Selected for Analysis

A new article co-authored by CURA director, Harvey Miller, has been published in the Journal of Transport Geography. This study fills substantial gaps in the literature about the impact of BRT on…

Relationship between crash severity and speed.

A new article co-authored by CURA's Director Harvey Miller and former CURA Graduate Research Associate Jinhyung Lee has been published in the journal Transportation Research Record.…

Average daily origin–destination flow from the low SES origins with essential travel to business facilities during pre-lockdown phase (top row) and lockdown phase (bottom row). SES = socioeconomic status.

This week, an article was published in the journal Annals of the American Association of Geographers co-authored by CURA Director Harvey Miller. This study focused on the…

 Geographic distribution average Procrustes distance between normal and pandemic weekday hourly demand curves.

By: Luyu Liu, Harvey J. Miller

Background

COVID-19 became a global pandemic due to its contagiousness, fatality rates, and lack of effective…

MORPC Dashboard

CURA and The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) are launching an interactive, online dashboard that provides current and accurate information on Central Ohio’s sustainability…

311 calls spatial analysis

By: Yuchen Li, Ayaz Hyder, Lauren T. Southerland, Gretchen Hammond, Adam Porr & Harvey J. Miller

Background

Opioid use disorder and overdose deaths…

walking time is correlated with longer waiting time for the optimized RTI-based strategy

By: Luyu Liu, Harvey J. Miller

Background

A common belief about real-time information (RTI) is the reduction of waiting time by allowing passengers…

Robust accessibility (a) before and (b) after the CMAX construction.

Robust accessibility: Measuring accessibility based on travelers' heterogeneous strategies for managing travel time uncertainty

Authors: Jinhyung Lee and Harvey…

Transfer Risk

Measuring risk of missing transfers in public transit systems using high-resolution schedule and real-time bus location data

Authors: Luyu Liu and Harvey Miller

Housing changing over time in Columbus Ohio

Jinhyung Lee, Nicholas Irwin, Elena Irwin, and Harvey J.
Miller
Center for Urban and Regional Analysis
The Ohio State University
15 May 2020

Speed Analysis Columbus Ohio

Jinhyung Lee, Adam Porr and Harvey J. Miller

Center for Urban and Regional Analysis

The Ohio State…