The Practice of Spatial Analysis

Chapter1: Introduction- The practice of spatial analysis.- Chapter2: Pavlos Kanaroglou, his McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics and Research Contributions to the City of Hamilton (2007-2016).- Chapter3: An ontological framework for spatial socioeconomic units.- Chapter4: Spatial microsimulation and agent-based modelling.- Chapter5: Spatial Patterns of Accessibility between Islands of the North and South Aegean Regions and Attica.- Chapter6: Agent-Based Activity/Travel Microsimulation: What's Next?.- Chapter7: Bottleneck models and Departure Time Problems.- Chapter8: Factors influencing journey-to-work by public transit in mega Canadian cities.- Chapter9: Freight in the City: The Evolving Landscape of Matters and Models.- Chapter10: A Structural Equation Model of Commercial Vehicle Ownership.- Chapter11: Applying Behavior Change Theory to Predict Travel Behavior Changes of University Commuters.- Chapter12: Developing a Data Transferability Platform to Analyze National-level Impacts of Connected Automated Vehicles.- Chapter13: The impact of public transport infrastructure on land values: Using spatial analysis to uncover policy-relevant processes.- Chapter14: California Business Establishment Evolution and Transportation Provision.- Chapter15: Investigating the Internal Compromise between Wife and Husband's Commute Time Changes in Residential Relocation.- Chapter16: Aerosol Optical Thickness Mapper (AOT-mapper): A Geoinformation Software for AOT Mapping at Urban Scale Using Landsat TM or ETM+ Satellite Images.- Chapter17: Mapping Air Pollution Health Risk: An application of Canada's AQHI.

Dr. Helen Briassoulis is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean. She was head of the Department of Geography from 2004-2008 and from 2013-2016. Her teaching subjects include methods of regional analysis, statistics, and environmental impact assessment. She has written several papers and book chapters on research methods, analysis of the human dimensions of land use change, desertification, tourism, planning, and policy analysis. She is the author of the web-chapter "Analysis of Land Use Change: Theoretical and Modeling Approaches" (2000) in the Web Book of Regional Science (Regional Research Institute, University of West Virginia) which is used as a teaching and research resource globally.Dr. Dimitris Kavroudakis is an Assistant Professor of Geographical Analysis in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in UCL (CASA), University of Sheffield, and University of the Aegean. He has been involved in high quality geographical research that has led to a number of scientific publications, with focus in location analysis, spatial analysis, network analysis, spatial statistics and economics, open source GIS development, and economic geography.

Dr. Nikolaos Soulakellis is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean. He was head of the Department of Geography from 2008-2010, and served as the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Student Welfare from 2010-2014. He teaches courses in thematic cartography and GIS, and is the Director of the Cartography and Geo-Information Lab in the Department of Geography. He has authored and co-authored over 30 scientific papers, three book chapters and several technical reports on the methodological developments of thematic cartography of environmental data.