OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	636
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	119
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	101
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	101
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	98
Function and form of U.S. cities	97
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	94
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	92
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	91
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	87
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	79
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	78
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	78
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	73
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	73
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	69
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	66
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	58
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	58
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	57
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	55
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	53
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	50
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	49
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	48

Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	46
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	45
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	45
Corrigendum to “An integrated physical-social analysis of disrupted access to critical facilities and community service-loss tolerance in urban flooding” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80 (	44
Editorial Board	44
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	42
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	42
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	42
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	40
Delineating functional urban areas in Chinese mega city regions using fine-grained population data and cellphone location data: A case of Pearl River Delta	40
A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	39
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	38
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	38
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	37
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	37
Editorial Board	36
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	36
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	36
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	36
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	35
“Domains of deprivation framework” for mapping slums, informal settlements, and other deprived areas in LMICs to improve urban planning and policy: A scoping review	34
Measuring nuanced walkability: Leveraging ChatGPT's vision reasoning with multisource spatial data	34
Automatic detection of potential mosquito breeding sites from aerial images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles	34
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	33
A heuristic algorithm for balancing workloads in coverage modeling	33
Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context	32
A new geodemographic classification of the influence of neighbourhood characteristics on crime: The case of Leeds, UK	32
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	31
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	31
Editorial Board	31
How regularly do people visit service places?	31
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset	31
The fallacy of the closest antenna: Towards an adequate view of device location in the mobile network	29
Utilizing geo-referenced imagery for systematic social observation of neighborhood disorder	29
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	29
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	29
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	29
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	28
Editorial Board	28
Shared automated vehicle fleet operations for first-mile last-mile transit connections with dynamic pooling	28
Investigating path dependence and spatial characteristics for retail success using location allocation and agent-based approaches	28
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	28
Smart water metering as a non-invasive tool to infer dwelling type and occupancy – Implications for the collection of neighbourhood-level housing and tourism statistics	28
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	27
From points to patterns: An explorative POI network study on urban functional distribution	27
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	27
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	27
Multi-objective optimization of urban environmental system design using machine learning	27
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	27
Causal effects of mobility intervention policies on intracity flows during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of zonal locations in the transportation networks	26

Digital twins and AI for healthy and sustainable cities	26
Calibration of cellular automata urban growth models from urban genesis onwards - a novel application of Markov chain Monte Carlo approximate Bayesian computation	26
Modeling spatial and temporal urban environmental noise using street view imagery and machine learning	26
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	25
Detecting changes in spatial characteristics of Colorado human-caused wildfires using APRIORI-based frequent itemset mining	25
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai: Heat risk vs. shelter provision	25
Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG	24
Combining a land parcel cellular automata (LP-CA) model with participatory approaches in the simulation of disruptive future scenarios of urban land use change	24
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	24
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	24
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	24
Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	23
Editorial Board	23
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	23
Advancing population-targeted urban sensing: A comparative study on mobile and static sensing paradigms	23
Torque work of origin-destination flows: Quantifying urban place centrality from a physical perspective	23
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	23
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	23
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	22
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	22
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	22
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	21
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	21
Editorial Board	21
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	21
Characterizing the activity patterns of outdoor jogging using massive multi-aspect trajectory data	21
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	21
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	21
Investigating the spatiotemporal pattern between the built environment and urban vibrancy using big data in Shenzhen, China	20
Optimizing urban green space spatial patterns for thermal environment improvement: A multi-objective approach in the context of urban renewal	20
Mapping Great Britain's semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments	20
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	20
Housing segregation in Chinese major cities: A K-nearest neighbor analysis of longitudinal big data	20
Editorial Board	20