Mei-Po Kwan

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Professional Service . Honors and Awards . Teaching . Research Interests
Funded Projects . Publications . Presentations . Technical Reports . Students

The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem (UGCoP)
The Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem (NEAP)
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Positions

  • Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, Hong Kong
  • Director, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, Hong Kong
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Education

  • 1994 Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1989 M.A. Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 1985 B.SoSci. Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professional Service

  • Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Methods, Models, and GIS Section) (2006-2017).
  • Founder and Chair, International Geospatial Health Research Network (IGHRN) © (This international research network was founded and first named by Mei-Po Kwan in 2013).
  • General Editor, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, 15-volume set with 9120 pages and over 1000 entries. New York: Wiley.
  • Associate Editor, Travel Behaviour and Society (2013-present); Geographical Analysis (2003-2012).
  • Editorial boards, Journal of Transport Geography (2008-present); Applied Geography (2014-present); International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) (2014-present); ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2019-present); Geographical Analysis (2000-2002; 2012-present); Gender, Place and Culture (2003-2006); The Professional Geographer (2005-2010).
  • President, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) (2014-2015).
  • General Chair, GIScience 2012 International Conference.
  • Charter Member, Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2010-2014).
  • Advisory panelist or reviewer of grant proposals for 14 U.S. National Science Foundation programs, U.S. National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Research Foundation of Flanders, Royal Geographical Society (U.K.), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Swiss National Science Foundation (1995-present).
  • National Councillor, Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2005-2008).
  • Chair, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (2014-15) and AAG GIS Specialty Group (2005-2006).

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, American Association of Geographers (2020) [More Information]
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2019, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics (2019) [Press release: CUHK, UIUC, Full List]
  • Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contribution to International Collaboration, Geographical Society of China (2019)
  • Fellow, U.K. Academy of Social Sciences (2018) [More Information]
  • AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, American Association of Geographers (2018) [Citation]
  • Alan Hay Award in Transport Geography, Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) (2017)
  • Distinguished Scholar Award (2017) and Service Excellence Award (2018), International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016) [More Information]
  • E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers (2016) [Citation]
  • Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (2016)
  • Outstanding Service Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group (2015)
  • Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers (2011) [Citation]
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (since 2009)
  • Belle van Zuylen Chair, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2009)
  • University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award (2005)
  • Edward L. Ullman Award, AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group (2005)
  • Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (UK) (since 2004)
  • Plenary Speaker, Centennial Presidential Plenary Session at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2004)

Teaching

  • Advanced GIS
  • Business Applications of Geographic Information Science
  • GIS for Social Science and Business Research
  • Design and Implementation for Geographic Information Systems
  • Graduate Seminar in Advanced GIS

Research Interests

My research addresses health, transport, environmental, and social issues in urban areas through the application of innovative geographic information system (GIS) methods. I focus on understanding how socioeconomic differences (e.g., gender, income, race, ethnicity, and religion) shape urban residents' everyday experiences and perceptions/use of the built environment. I am also interested in studying how specific characteristics of the social and physical environment affect the wellbeing and behavior of different social groups. My current projects attempt to mitigate two fundamental methodological problems while examining health-environment relationships: the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP).

My studies often rely on the primary data I collected using a wide spectrum of quantitative, qualitative, and GIS methods, including GPS tracking, real-time mobile sensing, ecological momentary assessment, activity diary surveys, and in-depth interviews. My methods have several characteristics. They attempt to capture/reflect individual experience and thus are seldom based on aggregate data or conventional administrative units such as census tracts. Much of my work to date has been undertaken at very fine spatial scales (e.g., local streets, individual buildings, and even rooms inside a building). The following are some of the main themes of my recent research:

  • geographies of health and wellbeing - environmental health, individual exposure to environmental influences (e.g., air pollution, noise, green space, the food environment) and its health impacts, subjective wellbeing, access to healthcare, spatial disparities in health and wellbeing, protection of geoprivacy in health research;
  • human mobility, urban travel and sustainable transportation - accessibility jobs and urban opportunities in space-time, the spatial mismatch between jobs and residence, interaction between land use and travel, the environmental impact of suburbanization and commuting, effects of subjective experience on the use of urban space and facilities, and sustainable city;
  • urban, environmental, health and transport issues in U.S. and Chinese cities;
  • research method - big data analytics; collection and analysis of GPS and mobile sensor data; 3D geovisualization; quantitative methods (geocomputation, spatial data analysis, structural equation models, hierarchical and multilevel models); qualitative methods (qualitative GIS, computer-aided qualitative data analysis, oral history, narrative analysis, visual narratives, ecological momentary assessment); mixed-method approaches; activity diary surveys;
  • 3D GIS - 3D GIS data models for multi-story structures; analysis of the space-time trajectories of moving objects through visualization and data mining methods; real-time positioning technologies;

My research interests are quite diverse, but several overarching dimensions can be identified: (a) an emphasis on people’s everyday experiences; (b) a focus on individual differences across multiple axes (e.g. gender, race and religion); and (c) a recognition of the need to develop new methods for representing the complexities of human behavior and the urban environment.

Funded Projects

I have received research grants totaling about US$56 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Dutch Research Council, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, William T. Grant Foundation, and other sources. The following are some of my recent projects (grant amounts are in US$ unless otherwise indicated).

  • "A Robust and Reliable Resource for Accessing, Sharing, and Analyzing Confidential Geospatial Research Data. U.S. National Science Foundation ($600,000) 2018-2022. (Co-PI)

  • "Acquisition of a National CyberGIS Facility for Computing and Data-Intensive Geospatial Research and Education." U.S. National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program ($2.5 million) 2014-2017. (SP)

  • "CISSDA: A Unified Cyberinfrastructure Framework for Scalable Spatiotemporal Data Analytics." U.S. National Science Foundation, Big Data Science & Engineering Program ($300,000) 2013-2015. (Co-PI)

  • "Linking Biological and Social Pathways to Adolescent Health and Well-Being." U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse ($255,194) 2013-2014. (SP)

  • "Addressing Challenges for Geospatial Data-Intensive Research Communities: Research on Unique Confidentiality Risks & Geospatial Data Sharing within a Virtual Data Enclave." U.S. National Science Foundation ($400,000) 2012-2014. (Co-PI)

  • "Adolescent Health and Development in Context." U.S. National Institutes of Health ($3 million) 2011-2016. (Co-PI)

  • "Activity Space, Social Network, and Community Influences on Adolescent Risk." William T. Grant Foundation ($605,600) 2012-2014. (Co-PI)

  • "Evolving HIV/STI Risk Environments of FSWs on the Mexico/U.S. Border." U.S. National Institutes of Health ($3.6 million) 2010-2014. (PI of OSU)

  • "Tobacco Cessation Interventions with Ohio Appalachian Smokers." U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health ($3.5 million) 2009-2014. (Co-PI)

  • "Initiative in Population Research." U.S. National Institutes of Health ($2.4 million), 2009-2014. (Co-PI)

  • "Spatial Patterns of Social Isolation, Youthful Marijuana Use, and Sexual/HIV Risk." U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health ($700,000), 2009-2011. (Co-PI)

  • "Dynamics of Space and Time Use: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences for Crime and Problem Behaviors." U.S. National Science Foundation, Human and Social Dynamics Program ($700,000), 2008-2010. (Co-PI)

  • "Smokeless Tobacco Marketing Approaches to Ohio Appalachian Populations." National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health ($360,000), 2008-2010. (Co-PI)

  • "Segregation and Local Crime: An Integrated Spatial Analysis." U.S. National Science Foundation, Sociology and Law and Social Science Programs ($250,000), 2005-2007. (Co-PI)

  • "SPACE - Spatial Perspectives for Analysis in Curriculum Enhancement." U.S. National Science Foundation, CCLI National Dissemination Program ($1.4 million), 2003-2006. (PI for OSU)

  • "The Impact of Internet Use on Women's Activity Patterns and the Gender Division of Household Labor." U.S. National Science Foundation, Information Technology Research (NSF-ITR) Program ($200,000), 2001-2003. (PI)

Selected Publications

1. Edited Books and Special Issues

  • 2020. Urban Informatics. Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds,) Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

  • 2020. Geospatial Methods in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed), Special issue of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, ongoing.

  • 2020. Advances in Portable Sensing Methodologies for Urban Environments: Understanding Cities from a Mobility Perspective. Amit Birenboim, Marco Helbich, and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), Special issue of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, ongoing.

  • 2020. Spatiotemporal Big Data Analytics for Transportation Applications. Bi Yu Chen and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, forthcoming.

  • 2019. Uncertainty and Context in GIScience and Geography. Yongwan Chun, Mei-Po Kwan, and Daniel A. Griffith (Eds), special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol.33, No.6.

  • 2019. Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Context, and Environmental Health: Recent Advances in Approaches and Methods. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed), special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  • 2018. Geoprocessing in Public and Environmental Health. Marco Helbich, Paulien Hagedoorn, Derek Karssenberg, Mei-Po Kwan, Hannah Roberts, and Simon Scheider (Eds), special issue of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

  • 2018. Geographies of Mobility: Recent Advances in Theory and Method. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Eds), New York: Routledge.

  • 2017. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. (Editor-in-Chief: Douglas Richardson, Mei-Po Kwan as one of the Section Editors) Wiley.

  • 2016. Geographies of Mobility. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Eds), special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol.106, No.2. [Table of Contents]

  • 2016. Spatio-Temporal Perspectives on Urban China’s Mobility, Housing and Social Issues. Donggen Wang and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Urban Geography, forthcoming.

  • 2015. Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the U.S. and China. Mei-Po Kwan, Douglas Richardson, Donggen Wang and Chenghu Zhou (Eds), Dordrecht: Springer.

  • 2015. Geospatial Health Research and GIS. Xun Shi and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Annals of GIS, Vol.21, No.2.

  • 2014. Space-Time Research in GIScience. Mei-Po Kwan and Tijs Neutens (Eds), special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol.25, No.8.

  • 2014. International Perspectives on Research Directions in Geography and Urban Sustainability. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed), special issue of Asian Geographer, Vol.31, No.2.

  • 2013. Geographies of Health, Disease, and Well-Being: Recent Advances in Theory and Method. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed) New York: Routledge.

  • 2013. Weather, Geographical Contexts and Travel Behavior. Martin Dijst, Lars Böcker, and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Journal of Transport Geography, Vol.28.

  • 2013. Space-time Behavior and Geography. Mei-Po Kwan and Yanwei Chai (Eds), special issue of Progress in Geography, Vol.32, No.9 (in Chinese).

  • 2012. Geographic Information Science (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science [GIScience 2012]) Ningchuan Xiao, Mei-Po Kwan, Michael Goodchild, and Shashi Shekhar (Eds). Berlin: Springer.

  • 2012. Geographies of Health. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed), special issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.102, No.5.

  • 2012. Critical Space-Time Geographies. Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Environment and Planning A, Vol.44, No.9.

  • 2010. Time Geography and Urban Planning. Yanwei Chai, Mei-Po Kwan, and Shih-Lung Shaw (Eds), special issue of Urban Planning International, Vol.25, No.6 (in Chinese).

  • 2009. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 12-volume set with 8250 pages (Editors in Chief: Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift; Mei-Po Kwan as one of the co-editors) Amsterdam: Elsevier.

  • 2009. Critical Quantitative Geographies. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Eds), special issue of Environment and Planning A, Vol.41., No.2

  • 2009. Critical Quantitative Geographies 1: Beyond the Critical/Analytical Binary. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Eds), special issue of The Professional Geographer, Vol.61, No.3.

  • 2009. Critical Quantitative Geographies 2: Practical Engagements. Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of The Professional Geographer, Vol.61, No.4.

  • 2009. ICT, Everyday Life and Urban Change. Martin Dijst, Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Eds), special issue of Environment and Planning B, Vol.36.

  • 2008. Transport: Critical Essays in Human Geography. Susan Hanson and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), Aldershot: Ashgate.

  • 2008. ICTs and the Decoupling of Everyday Activities, Space and Time. Tim Schwanen, Martin Dijst and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol.99, No.5.

  • 2007. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), Aldershot: Ashgate.

  • 2007. The Interaction between ICT and Human Activity-Travel Behavior. Mei-Po Kwan, Martin Dijst and Tim Schwanen (Eds), special issue of Transportation Research A, Vol.41, No.2.

  • 2006. Qualitative Research and GIS. Mei-Po Kwan and LaDona Knigge (Eds), special issue of Environment and Planning A, Vol.38, No.11.

  • 2006. The Internet, Changing Mobilities and Urban Dynamics., Tim Schwanen, Martin Dijst and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Urban Geography, Vol.27, No.7.

  • 2005. Critical GIS. Francis Harvey, Mei-Po Kwan and Marianna Pavlovskaya (Eds), special issue of Cartographica, Vol.40, No.4.

  • 2004. Addressing the Social Implications of GIS in the Technical Realm: Public Health Data and GIS. Mei-Po Kwan and Nadine Schuurman (Eds), special issue of Cartographica, Vol.39, No.2.

  • 2004. GIS and Social Science: New Rules of Engagement. Nadine Schuurman and Mei-Po Kwan (Eds), special issue of Cartographica, Vol.39, No.1.

  • 2003. Accessbility in Space and Time: A Theme in Spatially Integrated Social Science. Mei-Po Kwan, Donald Janelle and Michael Goodchild (Eds), special issue of Journal of Geographical Systems, Vol.5, No.1.

  • 2002. Feminist Geography and GIS. Mei-Po Kwan (Ed), special issue of Gender, Place and Culture, Vol.9, No.3.

2. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2020. Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism. Environment International, forthcoming. (Ziyue Chen, Danlu Chen, Chuanfeng Zhao, Mei-Po Kwan, Jun Cai, Yan Zhuang, Bo Zhao, Xiaoyan Wang, Bin Chen, Jing Yang, Ruiyuan Li, Bin He, Bingbo Gao, Kaicun Wang, and Bing Xu)

  • 2020. Understanding racial disparities in exposure to traffic-related air pollution: Considering the spatiotemporal dynamics of population distribution. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3): 908. (Yoo Min Park and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2020. Measuring spatial mismatch and job access inequity based on transit-based job accessibility for poor job seekers. Travel Behaviour and Society, 19: 184-193. (Dong Liu and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2020. Assessing mobility-based real-time air pollution exposure in space and time using smart sensors and GPS trajectories in Beijing. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(2): 434-448. (Jing Ma, Yinhua Tao, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2020. Understanding the relationships among individual-based momentary measured noise, perceived noise, and psychological stress: A Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) approach. Health & Place, forthcoming. (Lirong Kou, Yinhua Tao, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2020. Space-time dynamics of cab drivers' stay behaviors and their relationships with built environment characteristics. Cities, forthcoming. (Pengxiang Zhao, Yang Xu, Xintao Liu, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2020. Capturing what human eyes perceive: A visual hierarchy generation approach to emulating saliency-based visual attention for grid-like urban street networks. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, forthcoming. (Wenjie Zhen, Lin Yang, Mei-Po, Zejun Zuo, Bo Wan, Shunping Zhou, Shengwen Li, Yaqin Ye, Haoyue Qian, and Xiaofang Pan)

  • 2020. Does low income translate into lower mobility? An investigation of activity space in Hong Kong between 2002 and 2011. Journal of Transport Geography, forthcoming. (Sui Tao, Sylvia Y. He, Mei-Po Kwan, and Shuli Luo)

  • 2020. The impacts of road network density on motor vehicle travels: An empirical study of Chinese cities based on network theory. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, forthcoming. (Shiguang wang, Dexin Yu, Mei-Po Kwan, Huxing Zhou, Yongxing Li, and Hongzhi Miao)

  • 2020. Social exclusion and accessibility among low- and non-low-income groups: A case study of Nanjing, China. Cities, forthcoming. (Hui Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Mingxing Hu)

  • 2020. Usage of urban space and sociospatial differentiation of income groups: A case study of Nanjing, China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, forthcoming. (Hui Wang, Mei?Po Kwan, and Mingxing Hu)

  • 2020. Spatial lifecourse epidemiology reporting standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement. Health & Place, forthcoming. (Jia, Peng, Chao Yu, Justin V. Remais, Alfred Stein, Yu Liu, Ross C. Brownson, Jeroen Lakerveld, Tong Wu, Lijian Yang, Melody Smith, Sherif Amer, Jamie Pearce, Yan Kestens, Mei-Po Kwan, Shengjie Lai, Fei Xu, Xi Chen, Andrew Rundle, Qian Xiao, Hong Xue, Miyang Luo, Li Zhao, Guo Cheng, Shujuan Yang, Xiaolu Zhou, Yan Li, Jenna Panter, Simon Kingham, Andy Jones, Blair Johnson, Xun Shi, Lin Zhang, Limin Wang, Jianguo Wu, Suzanne Mavoa, Tuuli Toivonen, Kevin Mwenda, Youfa Wang, Monique Verschuren, Roel Vermeulen, and Peter James)

  • 2020. How does urban expansion impact people's exposure to green environments? A comparative study of 290 Chinese cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, forthcoming. (Yimeng Song, Bin Chen, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2020. Unveiling cabdrivers' dining behavior patterns for site selection of 'taxi canteen' using taxi trajectory data. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 16(1): 137-160. (Pengxiang Zhao, Xintao Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, and Wenzhong Shi)

  • 2020. Spatiotemporal big data analytics for transportation applications. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 16(1): 1-4. (Bi Yu Chen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. Uncertainties in the geographic context of health behaviors: A study of substance users' exposure to psychosocial stress using GPS data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(6): 1176-1195. (Mei-Po Kwan, Jue Wang, Matthew Tyburski, David H. Epstein, William J. Kowalczyk, and Kenzie L. Preston)

  • 2019. Beyond commuting: Ignoring individuals' activity-travel patterns may lead to inaccurate assessments of their exposure to traffic congestion. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(1), 89. (Junghwan Kim and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. The effects of GPS-based buffer size on the association between travel modes and environmental contexts. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8: 514. (Kangjae Lee and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. Interactions between bus, metro and taxi use before and after the Chinese Spring Festival. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(10): 445. (Jianwei Huang, Xintao Liu, Pengxiang Zhao, Junwei Zhang, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. The evolution and growth patterns of the road network in a medium-sized developing city: A historical investigation of Changchun, China, from 1912 to 2017. Sustainability, 11(19): 5307. (Shiguang Wang, Dexin Yu, Mei-Po Kwan, Huxing Zhou, Yongxing Li, and Hongzhi Miao)

  • 2019. A comparative analysis of the impacts of the objective versus the subjective neighborhood environment on physical, mental, and social health. Health and Place, forthcoming. (Lin Zhang, Suhong Zhou, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. The impact of the built environment and noise pollution on residents' mental health: A study of Beijing. Progress in Geography, 38(7): 1103- 1110. [In Chinese] (Chunjiang Li, Jing Ma, Yanwei Chai, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. Women in sex work and the risk environment: Agency, risk perception, and management in the sex work environments of two Mexico-US border cities. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 16(3): 317-328. (Eli Andrade, Eli, René Leyva, Mei-Po Kwan, Carlos Magis, Hugo Stainez-Orozco, and Kimberly Brouwer)

  • 2019. The ecology of physical activity in family childcare environments: A GIS-supported qualitative study. Children, Youth and Environments, 29(1): 57-83. (Roger Figueroa, Robin Jarrett, Mei-Po Kwan, Brent McBride, and Angela R. Wiley)

  • 2019. Spatial spillovers and value chain spillovers: Evaluating regional R&D efficiency and its spillover Effects in China. Scientometrics, 119(2): 721-747. (Qin, Xionghe Qin, Debin Du, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2019. A study on the spatial distribution of the renewable energy industries in China and their driving factors. Renewable Energy, 139: 161-175. (Qiang Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, Jie Fan, Kan Zhou, and Yafei Wang)

  • 2019. The impacts of urbanization on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations: Empirical evidence from 135 countries worldwide. Environmental Pollution, 247: 989-998. (Qiang Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, Kan Zhou, Jie Fan, Yafei Wang, and Dongsheng Zhan)

  • 2019. Impacts of residential energy consumption on the health burden of household air pollution: Evidence from 135 countries. Energy Policy, 128: 284-295. (Qiang Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, Kan Zhou, Jie Fan, Yafei Wang, and Dongsheng Zhan)

  • 2019. Uncertainty and context in GIScience and geography: Challenges in the era of geospatial big data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(6): 1131-1134. (Yongwan Chun, Mei-Po Kwan, and Daniel A. Griffith)

  • 2019. Traffic congestion analysis at the turn level using taxis' GPS trajectory data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74: 229-243. (Zihan Kan, Luliang Tang, Mei-Po Kwan, Chang Ren, Dong Liu, and Qingquan Li)

  • 2019. Reside nearby, behave apart? Activity-space-based segregation among residents of various types of housing in Beijing, China. Cities, 88: 166-180. (Xue Zhang, Jue Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2018. The limits of the neighborhood effect: Contextual uncertainties in geographic, environmental health, and social science research. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(6): 1482-1490. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Context and uncertainty in geography and GIScience: Advances in theory, methods, and practice. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(6): 1473-1475. (Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2018. The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP): An elusive confounder of the neighborhood effect. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15: 1841. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15091841 (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Impacts of individual daily greenspace exposure on health based on individual activity space and structural equation modeling. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10): 2323. (Lin Zhang, Suhong Zhou, Mei-Po Kwan, Fei Chen, and Rongping Lin)

  • 2018. The driving factors of air quality index in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 197(Part 1): 1342-1351. (Dongsheng Zhan, Mei-Po Kwan, Wenzhong Zhang, Xiaofen Yu, Bin Meng, and Qianqian Liu)

  • 2018. Evaluating the accessibility of healthcare facilities using an integrated catchment area approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(9): 2051. (Xiaofang Pan, Mei-Po Kwan, Lin Yang, Shunping Zhou, Zejun Zuo, and Bo Wan)

  • 2018. An analytical framework for integrating the spatiotemporal dynamics of environmental context and individual mobility in exposure assessment: A study on the relationship between food environment exposures and body weight. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(9): 2022. (Jue Wang and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Using points-of-interest data to estimate commuting patterns in central Shanghai, China. Journal of Transport Geography, 72: 201-210. (Mengya Li, Mei-Po Kwan, Fahui Wang, and Jun Wang)

  • 2018. Automatic physical activity and in-vehicle status classification based on GPS and accelerometer data: A hierarchical classification approach using machine learning techniques. Transactions in GIS, 22(6): 1522-1549. (Kangjae Lee and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Seasonal mobility and well-being of older people: The case of 'Snowbirds' to Sanya, China. Health & Place, forthcoming. (Lirong Kou, Honggang Xu, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Multi-level temporal autoregressive modelling of daily activity satisfaction using GPS-integrated activity diary data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(11): 2189-2208. (Guanpeng Dong, Jing Ma, Mei-Po Kwan, Yiming Wang, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2018. Fine-grained analysis on fuel-consumption and emission from vehicles trace. Journal of Cleaner Production, 203: 340-352. (Zihan Kan, Luliang Tang, Mei-Po Kwan, Chang Ren, Dong Liu, Tao Pei, Yu Liu, Min Deng, and Qingquan Li)

  • 2018. A multilevel analysis of perceived noise pollution, geographic contexts and mental health in Beijing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(7): 1479. doi:10.3390/ijerph15071479 (Jing Ma, Chunjiang Li, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2018. Unveiling cabdrivers' dining behavior patterns for site selection of 'taxi canteen' using taxi trajectory data. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, forthcoming. (Pengxiang Zhao, Xintao Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, and Wenzhong Shi)

  • 2018. The Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on healthy cities in China: Unlocking the power of cities for a healthy China. The Lancet, 391(10135): 2140-2184. (Yang, Jun, Jose G. Siri, Justin V Remais, Qu Cheng, Han Zhang, Karen K. Y. Chan, Zhe Sun, Yuanyuan Zhao, Na Cong, Xueyan Li, Wei Zhang, Yuqi Bai, Jun Bi, Wenjia Cai, Emily Y. Y. Chan, Wanqing Chen, Weicheng Fan, Hua Fu, Jianqing He, Hong Huang, John S. Ji, Peng Jia, Xiaopeng Jiang), Mei-Po Kwan, Xiguang Li, Song Liang, Xiaofeng Liang, Lu Liang, Qiyong Liu, Yongmei Lu, Yong Luo, Xiulian Ma, Bernhard Schwartlander, Zhiyong Shen, Peijun Shi, Jing Su, Tinghai Wu, Changhong Yang, Yongyuan Yin Qiang Zhang, Yinping Zhang, Yong Zhang, Bing Xu, and Peng Gong)

  • 2018. Hexagon-based adaptive crystal-growth Voronoi diagrams based on weighted planes for service area delimitation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(7): 257. doi:10.3390/ijgi7070257 (Jue Wang and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Beyond residential segregation: A spatiotemporal approach to examining multi-contextual segregation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 71: 98-108. (Yoo Min Park and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. A spatiotemporal regression-kriging model for space-time interpolation: A case study of chlorophyll-a prediction in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, China. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(10): 1927-1947. (Zhenhong Du, Sensen Wu, Mei-Po Kwan, Chuanrong Zhang, Feng Zhang, and Renyi Liu)

  • 2018. An innovative context-based crystal-growth activity space method for environmental exposure assessment: A study using GIS and GPS trajectory data collected in Chicago. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(4): 703. doi:10.3390/ijerph15040703 (Jue wang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2018. Environmental influences on leisure-time physical inactivity in the U.S.: An exploration of spatial non-stationarity. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7:143. doi: 10.3390/ijgi7040143 (Jue Wang, Kangjae Lee, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. How do people in different places experience different levels of air pollution? Using worldwide Chinese as a lens. Environmental Pollution, 238: 874-883. (Bin Chen, Yimeng Song, Mei-Po Kwan, Bo Huang, and Bing Xu)

  • 2018. The development of digital urban design in American Universities. Urban Planning International, 33(1): 28-33. [In Chinese] (Yi Shi and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Effect of urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 188: 38-48. (Jianbao Li, Xianjin Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Xiaowei Chuai)

  • 2018. Estimating and visualizing vehicle fuel consumption and emissions using GPS big data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(4): 566. doi:10.3390/ijerph15040566 (Zihan Kan, Luliang Tang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Xia Zhang)

  • 2018. The uncertain geographic context problem in the analysis of the relationships between obesity and the built environment in Guangzhou. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(2): 308. doi:10.3390/ijerph15020308. (Pengxiang Zhao, Mei-Po Kwan, and Suhong Zhou)

  • 2018. Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China, Cities, 79: 92-101. (Dongsheng Zhan, Jianhui Yu, Mei-Po Kwan, Wenzhong Zhang, Yunxiao Dang, and Jie Fan)

  • 2018. Natural environments and suicide mortality in the Netherlands. Lancet Planetary Health, 2: 134-139. (Marco Helbich, Derek de Beurs, Mei-Po Kwan, Rory C O'Connor, and Peter P. Groenewegen)

  • 2018. Physical activity classification in free-living conditions using smartphone accelerometer data and exploration of predicted results. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 67: 124-131. (Kangjae Lee and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Advancing analytical methods for urban metabolism studies. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 132: 239-245. (Huan Li and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2018. Exploring urban metabolism - Towards an interdisciplinary perspective. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 132: 190-203. (Martin Dijst, Ernst Worrell, Lars Böcker, Paul Brunner, Simin Davoudi, Stan Geertman, Robert Harmsen, Marco Helbich, Albert A.M. Holtslag, Mei-Po Kwan, Barbara Lenz, Glenn Lyons, Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Peter Newman, Adriaan Perrels, Ana Poças Ribeiro, Jesus Rosales Carreon, Giles Thomson, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, and Marianne Zeyringer)

  • 2018. ICTs and changes in activity-travel behavior in urban China: Existing research and future directions. Handbook on Transport and Urban Transportation in China. Chia-Lin Chen, Haixiao Pan, Qing Shen, and James Jixian Wang (Eds). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. (Yue Shen, Na Ta, Mei-Po Kwan, and Feng Zhen)

  • 2017. Spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of air pollution in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14: 1538. doi:10.3390/ijerph14121538 (Dongsheng Zhan, Mei-Po Kwan, Wenzhong Zhang, Shaojian Wang, and Jianhui Yu)

  • 2017. Predicting demand for 311 non-emergency municipal services: An adaptive space-time kernel approach. Applied Geography, 89:133-141. (Li Xu, Mei-Po Kwan, Sara McLafferty, and Shaowen Wang)

  • 2017. Urban-rural inequalities in suicide mortality: A comparison of urbanicity indicators. International Journal of Health Geographics, 16:39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-017-0112-x (Marco Helbich, Victor Blüml, Tom de Jong, Paul L Plener, Mei-Po Kwan, and Nestor D Kapusta)

  • 2017. Multi-contextual segregation and environmental justice research: Toward fine-scale spatiotemporal approaches. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14: 1205. doi:10.3390/ijerph14101205 (Yoo Min Park and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2017. Individual exposure estimates may be erroneous when spatiotemporal variability of air pollution and human mobility are ignored. Health & Place, 43: 85-94. (Yoo Min Park and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2017. The effect of urbanization and farmland transfer on the spatial patterns of non-grain farmland in China. Sustainability, 9(8): 1438. doi:10.3390/su9081438 (Xiaofeng Zhao, Yuqian Zheng, Xianjin Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yuntai Zhao).

  • 2017. Uncovering the spatiotemporal patterns of CO2 emissions by taxis based on individuals' daily travel. Journal of Transport Geography, 62: 122-135. (Pengxiang Zhao, Mei-Po Kwan, and Kun Qin)

  • 2017. Geoscience and the technological revolution. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 5(3): 72-75. (Yuqi Bai, Clifford A. Jacobs, Mei-Po Kwan, and Christoph Waldmann)

  • 2017. A comparison between spatial econometric models and random forest for modeling fire occurrence. Sustainability, 9(5): 819. doi:10.3390/su9050819 (Chao Song, Mei-Po Kwan, Weiguo Song, and Jiping Zhu)

  • 2017. Examining the impacts of ethnicity on space-time behavior: Evidence from the City of Xining, China. Cities, 64: 26-36. (Yiming Tan, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yawei Chai)

  • 2017. Scalable space-time trajectory cube for path-finding: A study using big taxi trajectory data. Transportation Research B, 101: 1-27. (Lin Yang, Mei-Po Kwan, Xiaofang Pan, Bo Wan, and Shunping Zhou)

  • 2017. Driving forces and the spatial patterns of industrial sulphur dioxide discharge in China. Science of the Total Environment, 577: 279-288. (Xiaofeng Zhao, Chunlei Deng, Xianjin Huang, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2017. Modeling fire occurrence at the city scale: A comparison between geographically weighted regression and global linear regression. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(4): 396. doi:10.3390/ijerph14040396 (Chao Song, Mei-Po Kwan, and Jiping Zhu)

  • 2017. Location-based service using ontology-based semantic queries: A study with a focus on indoor activities in a university context. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 62: 41-52. (Kangjae Lee, Jiyeong Lee and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2017. Selected studies on urban development issues in China: Introduction. Urban Geography, 38(3): 360-362. (Donggen Wang and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2016. Algorithmic geographies: Big data, algorithmic uncertainty, and the production of geographic knowledge. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(2): 274-282. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2016. Geographies of mobilities. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(2): 243-256. (Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2016. Spatial mismatch in post-reform urban China: A case study of a relocated state-owned enterprise in Guangzhou. Habitat International, 58: 1-11. (Suhong Zhou, Yang Lin and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2016. Quantitative, qualitative and geospatial methods to characterize HIV risk environments. PLoS ONE, 11(5): e0155693. (Erin E. Conners, Brooke S. West, Alexis M. Roth, Kristen G. Meckel-Parker, Mei-Po Kwan, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Hugo Staines-Orozco, John D. Clapp, and Kimberly C. Brouwer)

  • 2016. Surface water areas significantly impacted 2014 dengue outbreaks in Guangzhou, China. Environmental Research, 150: 299-305. (Huaiyu Tian, Shanqian Huang, Sen Zhou, Peng Bi, Zhicong Yang, Xiujun Li, Lifan Chen, Bernard Cazelles, Jing Yang, Lei Luo, Qinlong Jing, Wenping Yuan, Yao Pei, Zhe Sun, Tianxiang Yue, Mei-Po Kwan, Qiyong Liu, Ming Wang, Shilu Tong, John S. Brownstein, and Bing Xu)

  • 2016. The role of immigrant concentration within and beyond residential neighborhoods in adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(1): 17-34. (Aubrey L. Jackson, Christopher R. Browning, Lauren J. Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, and Heather M. Washington)

  • 2016. Natural and built environmental exposures on children's active school travel: A Dutch GPS-based cross-sectional study. Health & Place, 39: 101-109. (Marco Helbich, Maarten J. Zeylmans van Emmichoven, Martin Dijst, Mei-Po Kwan, Frank H Pierik, and Sanne I. de Vries)

  • 2016. Gendered space-time constraints, activity participation and household structure: A case study using a GPS-based activity survey in suburban Beijing, China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 107(5): 505-521. (Na Ta, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2016. Land use policy and spatiotemporal changes in the water area of an arid region. Land Use Policy, 54: 366-377. (Fei Xu, Helen X.H. Bao, Huan Li, Mei-Po Kwan, and Xianjin Huang)

  • 2016. Urban form, car ownership and activity space in inner suburbs: A comparison between Beijing (China) and Chicago (the United States). Urban Studies, 53(9): 1784-1802. (Tana, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2015. Gender differences in commute time and accessibility in Sofia, Bulgaria: A study using 3D geovisualization. The Geographical Journal, 181(1): 83-96. (Mei-Po Kwan and Alexander Kotsev)

  • 2015. Contextual uncertainties, human mobility, and perceived food environment: The uncertain geographic context problem in food access research. American Journal of Public Health, 105(9): 1734-1737. (Xiang Chen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Critical visualization in landscape and urban planning: Making the invisible visible. Landscape and Urban Planning, 142: 243-244. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Patterns of local segregation: Do they matter for neighborhood crime? Social Science Research, 54: 303-318. (Lauren Krivo, Reginald A. Byron, Catherine A. Calder, Ruth D. Peterson, Christopher R. Browning, Mei-Po Kwan, and Jae Yong Lee)

  • 2015. Space-time fixity and flexibility of daily activities and the built environment: A case study of different types of communities in Beijing suburbs. Journal of Transport Geography, 47: 90-99. (Yue Shen, Yanwei Chai, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Suburbanization, daily lifestyle and space-behavior interaction: A study of suburban residents in Beijing, China. Acta Geographica Sinica, 70(8): 1271-1280. (Tana, Yanwei Chai, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Replication of scientific research: Addressing geoprivacy, confidentiality, and data sharing challenges in geospatial research. Annals of GIS, 21(2): 101-110. (Douglas Richardson, Mei-Po Kwan, George Alter, and Jean E. McKendry)

  • 2015. Ageing in place and ageing with migration in the transitional context of urban China: A case study of ageing communities in Guanzhou. Habitat International, 49: 177-186. (Suhong Zhou, Miao Xie, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. The relationship between the built environment and car travel distance on weekdays in Beijing. Acta Geographica Sinica, 70(10): 1675-1685. (Tana, Yanwei Chai, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Risk perceptions of smokeless tobacco among adolescent and adult users and nonusers. Journal of Health Communication, 20(5): 599-606. (Sherry T. Liu, Julianna M. Nemeth, Elizabeth G. Klein , Amy K. Ferketich, Mei-Po Kwan, and Mary Ellen Wewers)

  • 2015. Geospatial health research and GIS. Annals of GIS, 21(2): 93-95. (Xun Shi and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2015. Social and spatial differentiation of high and low income groups' out-of-home activities in Guangzhou, China." Cities, 45: 81-90. (Suhong Zhou, Lifang Deng, Mei-Po Kwan, and Ruogu Yan)

  • 2015. Changes in farmers' welfare from land requisition in the process of rapid urbanization. Land Use Policy, 42: 635-641. (Huan Li, Xianjin Hung, Mei-Po Kwan, Helen X. H. Bao, and Steven Jefferson)

  • 2015. Assessing dynamic exposure to air pollution. In Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the US and China. Mei-Po Kwan, Douglas Richardson, Donggen Wang and Chenghu Zhou (eds). Dordrecht: Springer. (Mei-Po Kwan, Desheng Liu, and Jaclyn Vogliano)

  • 2014. Assessing activity pattern similarity with multidimensional sequence alignment based on a multiobjective optimization evolutionary algorithm. Geographical Analysis, 46(3): 297-320. (Mei-Po Kwan, Ningchuan Xiao, and Guoxiang Ding)

  • 2014. Reflections on the similarities and differences between Chinese and U.S. cities. Asian Geographer, 31(2): 167-174. (Mei-Po Kwan, Yanwei Chai, and Tana)

  • 2014. Space-time research in GIScience. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(5): 851-854. (Mei-Po Kwan and Tijs Neutens)

  • 2014. International perspectives on research directions in geography and urban sustainability. Asian Geographer, 31(2): 149-151. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2014. Space-time measures of demand for service: Bridging location modeling and accessibility studies through a time-geographic framework. Geografiska Annaler B, 96(4): 329-344. (Fang Ren, Daoqin Tong, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2014. The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot: Implementations of GPS and other tracking technologies for geographic research. Geoforum, 51(1): 1-5. (Noam Shoval, Mei-Po Kwan, Kristian H. Reinau, and Henrik Harder)

  • 2014. Delimiting service area using adaptive crystal-growth Voronoi diagrams based on weighted planes: A case study in Haizhu District of Guangzhou in China. Applied Geography, 50: 108-119. (Jue Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, and LinBing Ma)

  • 2014. The Internet and the gender division of household labour. The Geographical Journal, 180(1): 52-64. (Tim Schwanen, Mei-Po Kwan, and Fang Ren)

  • 2014. Adolescent and adult perceptions of traditional and novel smokeless tobacco products and packaging in rural Ohio. Tobacco Control, 23(3): 209-214. (Sherry T. Liu, Julianan M. Nemeth, Elizabeth G. Klein, Amy K. Ferketich, Mei-Po Kwan, and Mary Ellen Wewers)

  • 2014. Mobility and travel activity patterns. In The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition. James Wright (ed). Oxford: Elsevier. (Joe Weber and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2014. GIS and health geography. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella R. Quah (Eds). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2013. Beyond space (as we knew it): Toward temporally integrated geographies of segregation, health, and accessibility. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(5): 1078-1086. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2013. Investigating commuting flexibility with GPS data and 3D geovisualizations: A case study of Beijing, China. Journal of Transport Geography, 32(1): 1-11. (Yue Shen, Mei-Po Kwan, and Yanwei Chai)

  • 2013. Spatial turn in health research. Science, 339: 1390-1392. (Douglas B. Richardson, Nora D. Volkow, Mei-Po Kwan, Robert M. Kaplan, Michael F. Goodchild, and Robert T. Croyle)

  • 2013. Exploring the unequal landscapes of healthcare accessibility in lower-income urban neighborhoods through qualitative inquiry. Geoforum, 50: 97-106. (Tim Hawthorne and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2013. Adolescent health-risk behavior and community disorder. PLoS ONE, 8(11): e77667. (Sarah E. Wiehe, Mei-Po Kwan, Jeff Wilson, and J. Dennis Fortenberry) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077667

  • 2013. Investigating the temporal dynamics of Internet activities. Time & Society, 22(2): 186-215. (Fang Ren, Mei-Po Kwan, and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2013. Social isolation of disadvantage and advantage: The reproduction of inequality in urban space. Social Forces, 92(1): 141-164. (Lauren J Krivo, Heather M. Washington, Ruth Peterson, Christopher R. Browning, Catherine Calder, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2013. Geographical Analysis: Its first forty years. Geographical Analysis, 45(4): 1-27. (Daniel A. Griffith, Yongwan Chun, Morton E. O’Kelly, Brian J. L. Berry, Robert P. Haining, and Mei-Po Kwan).

  • 2013. Exposure to weather and implications for travel behaviour: Introducing empirical evidence from Europe and Canada. Journal of Transport Geography, 28: 164-166. (Martin Dijst, Lars Böcker, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2013 Geographies of health, disease, and well-being. In Geographies of Health, Disease, and Well-being, Mei-Po Kwan (Ed). Taylor and Francis.

  • 2012. The uncertain geographic context problem. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5): 958-968. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2012. Geographies of health. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5): 891-892. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2012. How GIS can help address the uncertain geographic context problem in social science research. Annals of GIS, 18(45): 245-255. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2012. Critical space-time geographies. Environment and Planning A, 44(9): 2043-2048. (Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2012. Choice set formation with multiple flexible activities under space-time constraints. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26(5): 941-961. (Xiang Chen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2012. Factors influencing smokeless tobacco use in rural Ohio Appalachia. Journal of Community Health, 37(6): 1208-1217. (Julianna M. Nemeth, Sherry T. Liu, Elizabeth G. Klein, Amy K. Ferketich, Mei-Po Kwan, and Mary Ellen Wewers)

  • 2012. Smokeless tobacco marketing and sales practices in Appalachian Ohio following Federal regulations. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 14(7): 880-884. (Elizabeth G. Klein, Amy K. Ferketich, Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul, Mei-Po Kwan, Loren Kenda, and Mary Ellen Wewers)

  • 2012. Using GIS and perceived distance to understand the unequal geographies of healthcare in lower-income urban neighborhoods. The Geographical Journal, 178(1): 18-30. (Tim Hawthorne and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2012. A model for evacuation risk assessment with consideration of pre- and post-disaster factors. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 36(3): 207-217. (Xiang Chen, Mei-Po Kwan, Qiang Li, and Jin Chen)

  • 2011. Visualization of socio-spatial isolation based on human activity patterns and social networks in space-time. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 102(4): 468-485. (Jae Yong Lee and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2011. Adolescent sexual intercourse and neighborhood social disorder. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87(1), S1: A52-A53. (Sarah Wiehe, Mei-Po Kwan, S. Hoch, B. W. Brooks, A. Burgess, J. Wilson, and J. D. Fortenberry)

  • 2011. Examining commuting patterns: Results from a journey-to-work model disaggregated by gender and occupation. Urban Studies, 48(5): 891-909. (Sunhee Sang, Morton O’Kelly, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2011. 3D geographical information systems. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2010. A century of method-oriented scholarship in the Annals. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(5): 1060-1075. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2010. Postscript. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(5): 1107-1109. (Richard Aspinall, Mei-Po Kwan, Karl Zimmerer, and Audrey Kobayashi)

  • 2010. Time geography and urban planning. Urban Planning International, 25(6): 1-3. (Yanwei Chai, Mei-Po Kwan, and Shih-Lung Shaw; in Chinese)

  • 2010. Commercial density, residential concentration, and crime: Land use patterns and violence in neighborhood context. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 47: 329-357. (Christopher R. Browning, Reginald A. Byron, Catherine A. Calder, Lauren J. Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, Jae-Yong Lee, and Ruth D. Peterson)

  • 2010. LiDAR assisted emergency response: Detection of transport network obstructions caused by major disasters. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 34: 179-188. (Mei-Po Kwan and Daniel M. Ransberger)

  • 2010. Metropolitan area job accessibility and the working poor: Exploring local spatial variations of geographic context. Urban Geography, 31(4): 498-522. (E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2010. The neoliberal straitjacket and public education in the U.S.: Understanding contemporary education reform and its implication for urban contexts. Urban Geography, 31(2): 194-210. (Suzanna Klaf and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. From place-based to people-based exposure measures. Social Science and Medicine, 69(9): 1311-1313.(Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. Three recent developments in critical GIS. Cartographica, 44(1): 11-12. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. Quantitative revolution 2: The critical (re)turn. The Professional Geographer, 61(3): 283-291. (Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2009. Critical quantitative geographies. Environment and Planning A, 41(2): 261-264. (Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2009. ‘Doing’ critical geographies with numbers. The Professional Geographer, 61(4): 459-464. (Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. The impact of the Internet on human activity-travel patterns: Analysis of gender differences using multi-group structural equation models. Journal of Transport Geography, 17: 440-450. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. Decomposing, transforming and contextualizing E-shopping. Environment and Planning B, 36: 195-203. (Martin Dijst, Mei-Po Kwan, and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2009. The impact of geographic context on e-shopping behavior. Environment and Planning B, 36: 262-273. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. Quantification. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies, 573-585. Susan J. Smith, Rachel Pain, Sallie A. Marston, and John Paul Jones III (eds.). London: Sage. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. GIS as qualitative research: Knowledge, participatory politics, and cartographies of affect. In The Handbook for Qualitative Methods in Geography, 286-303. eds. Dydia DeLyser, Stuart Aitken, Mike Crang, Steve Herbert and Linda McDowell. London: Sage. (Stuart Aitken and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2009. Gendered rigidity of space-time constraints and human activity patterns: An activity-based approach. In Transportation and Geography, 951-959. Donggen Wang and Si-Ming Li (eds). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. (Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen, and Fang Ren)

  • 2009. Space-time paths. In Manual of Geographic Information Systems, 427-442. Marguerite Madden (ed.), Bethesda, MD: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Geo-Narrative: Extending geographic information systems for narrative analysis in qualitative and mixed-method research. The Professional Geographer, 60(4): 443-465. (Mei-Po Kwan and Guoxiang Ding).[Abstract]

  • 2008. From oral histories to visual narratives: Re-presenting the post-September 11 experiences of the Muslim women in the United States. Social and Cultural Geography, 9(6): 653-669. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2008. How fixed is fixed? Gendered rigidity of space-time constraints and geographies of everyday activities. Geoforum, 39(6): 2109-2121. (Tim Schwanen, Mei-Po Kwan, and Fang Ren)

  • 2008. ICTs and the decoupling of everyday activities, space and time. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 99(5): 519-527. (Tim Schwanen, Martin Dijst, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Scale and accessibility: Implications for the analysis of land use-travel interaction. Applied Geography, 28: 110-123. (Mei-Po Kwan and Joe Weber) [Abstract]

  • 2008. Mapping ambivalence: Exploring the geographies of community change and rails-to-trails development using photo-based Q-method and PPGIS. Geoforum, 39: 1058-1078. (Tim Hawthorne, John Krygier, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. The Internet, mobile phone and space-time constraints. Geoforum, 39: 1362-1377. (Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Towards socially sustainable urban transportation: Progress and potential. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2: 138-157. (E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Reconceptualizing sociogeographical context for the study of drug use, abuse, and addiction. In Geography and Drug Addiction, 445-454. Yonette Thomas, Douglas Richardson and Ivan Cheung (eds). Berlin: Springer. (Mei-Po Kwan, Ruth Peterson, Christopher Browning, Lori Burrington, Catherine Calder, and Lauren Krivo)

  • 2008. Accessibility, e-shopping, and activity-travel patterns. In Transportation and Management Science, 707-716. H. P. Lo, Stephen C. H. Leung, and Susanna M. L. Tam (eds), Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. (Mei-Po Kwan and Fang Ren)

  • 2008. Analysis of human space-time behavior: Geovisualization and geocomputational approaches. In Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, 93-113. Kathleen S. Hornsby and May Yuan (eds). New York: CRC Press. (Mei-Po Kwan and Fang Ren)

  • 2008. Introduction. In Transport: Critical Essays in Human Geography, xiii-xv. eds. Susan Hanson and Mei-Po Kwan. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Susan Hanson and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Feminist perspectives on geographic information systems: Implications for geographic research. In Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, 97-108, ed. Londa Schiebinger. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Critical GIS. In Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, ed. Karen Kemp. London: Sage. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2008. Analysis of human space-time behavior: Geovisualization and geocomputational approaches. In Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, 93-113. Kathleen S. Hornsby and May Yuan (eds). New York: CRC Press. (Mei-Po Kwan and Fang Ren)

  • 2008. Emergent methods in feminist geography. In Handbook of Emergent Methods, 613-624. Sharlene N. Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy (eds). New York: Guilford. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2007. Mobile communications, social networks, and urban travel: Hypertext as a new metaphor for conceptualizing spatial interaction. The Professional Geographer, 59(4): 434-446. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2007. Geovisualization of human hybrid activity-travel patterns. Transactions in GIS, 11(5): 721-744. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan) [Figures]

  • 2007. The impact of real-time information on choices during the commute trip: Evidence from a travel simulator. Growth and Change, 38(4): 523-543. (Irene Casas and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2007. Affecting geospatial technologies: Toward a feminist politics of emotion. The Professional Geographer, 59(1): 22-34. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2007. The interaction between ICT and human activity-travel behavior. Transportation Research A, 41(2): 121-124. (Mei-Po Kwan, Martin Dijst, and Tim Schwanen)

  • 2007. Introduction: Geographies of Muslim identities. In Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging, 1-9. Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. (Peter E. Hopkins, Mei-Po Kwan, and Cara Aitchison)

  • 2007. Hybrid GIS and cultural economic geography. In Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, 165-175, eds. Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck and Trevor Barnes. London: Sage. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2006. Doing qualitative research using GIS: An oxymoronic endeavor? Environment and Planning A, 38(11): 1999-2002. (Mei-Po Kwan and LaDona Knigge)

  • 2006. Transport geography in the age of mobile communications. Journal of Transport Geography, 14: 384-385. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2006. The Internet, changing mobilities and urban dynamics. Urban Geography, 27(7): 585-589. (Tim Schwanen, Martin Dijst, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2006. GABRIEL: GIS activity-based travel simulator: Activity scheduling in the presence of real-time information. Geoinformatica, 10:469-493. (Mei-Po Kwan and Irene Casas)

  • 2006. Geospatial ontology development and semantic analytics. Transactions in GIS, 10(4): 551-575. (I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Lynn Usery, Molly Azami and Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2006. Conceptualizing socially sustainable urban rransport. In Sustainable Transportation. S.C. Wong, T.D. Hau, J.J. Wang, K.W. Chau, and H.W. Ho (eds.) Hung Hom, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. (E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2005. A combinatorial data model for representing topological relations among 3D geographic features in micro-spatial environment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(19): 1039-1056. (Jiyeong Lee and Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2005. Emergency response after 9/11: The potential of real-time 3D GIS for quick emergency response in micro-spatial environments. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 29(2): 93-113.. (Mei-Po Kwan and Jiyeong Lee) [Abstract]

  • 2005. Critical GIS. Cartographica, 40(4): 1-4. (Francis Harvey, Mei-Po Kwan and Marianna Pavlovskaya)

  • 2005. Measuring activity and action space/time: Are our methods keeping pace with evolving behaviour patterns? In Integrated Land-Use and Transportation Models: Behavioural Foundations, 101-132, eds. Martin E.H. Lee-Gosselin and Sean T. Doherty. Oxford: Pergamon-Elsevier. (Talia M. McCray, Martin E.H. Lee-Gosselin, and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2005. Accessibility and the quality of life: Time-geographic perspectives. In Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives, 109-126, eds. Kieran Donaghy, Georg Rudinger and Stefan Poppelreuter. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Martin Dijst and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2004. Beyond difference: From canonical geography to hybrid geographies. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(4): 756-763. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2004. GIS methods in time-geographic research: Geocomputation and geovisualization of human activity patterns. Geografiska Annaler B, 86(4): 205-218. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2004. Protection of geoprivacy and accuracy of spatial information: How effective are geographical masks? Cartographica, 39(2):15-28. (Mei-Po Kwan, Irene Casas, and Ben C. Schmitz) [Abstract]

  • 2004. Issues of privacy protection and analysis of public health data. Cartographica, 39(2):1-4. (Mei-Po Kwan and Nadine Schuurman)

  • 2004. Taking a walk on the social side of GIS. Cartographica, 39(1):1-3. (Nadine Schuurman and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2004. Geovisualization of human activity patterns using 3D GIS: A time-geographic approach. In Spatially Integrated Social Science, 48-66, eds. Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle. New York: Oxford University Press. (Mei-Po Kwan and Jiyeong Lee) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2004. 'Real' bodies, 'real' technologies. In Geography and Technology, 383-399, eds. Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter and James W. Harrington. Norwell, MA: Kluwer. (Pamela Moss and Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2003. Gender troubles in the Internet era. Feminist Media Studies, 3(3): 371-374. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2003. Individual accessibility revisited: Implications for geographical analysis in the twenty-first Century. Geographical Analysis, 35(4):341-353. (Mei-Po Kwan and Joe Weber) [Abstract]

  • 2003. Accessibility in space and time: A theme in spatially integrated social science. Journal of Geographical Systems, 5(1):1-3. (Mei-Po Kwan, Donald G. Janelle, and Michael F. Goodchild)

  • 2003. Recent advances in accessibility research: Representation, methodology and applications. Journal of Geographical Systems, 5(1):129-138. (Mei-Po Kwan, Alan T. Murray, Morton O’Kelly, and Michael Tiefelsdorf) [Abstract]

  • 2003. Evaluating the effects of geographic contexts on individual accessibility: A multilevel approach. Urban Geography, 24(8):647-671. (Joe Weber and Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2003. Space-time accessibility measures: A geocomputational algorithm with a focus on the feasible opportunity set and possible activity duration. Journal of Geographical Systems, 5(1): 71-91. (Hyun-Mi Kim and Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2003. Intelligent emergency response systems. In The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism, 111-116, Susan L. Cutter, Douglas B. Richardson and Thomas J. Wilbanks (eds). New York: Routledge. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2002. Feminist visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a method in feminist geographic research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(4):645-661. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2002. Time, information technologies and the geographies of everyday life. Urban Geography, 23(5):471-482. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2002. Is GIS for women: Reflections on the critical discourse in the 1990s. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(3):271-279. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2002. Feminist geography and GIS. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(3):261-262. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2002. Bringing time back In: A study on the influence of travel time variations and facility opening hours on individual accessibility. The Professional Geographer, 54(2):226-240. (Joe Weber and Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2002. Quantitative methods and feminist geographic research. In Feminist Geography in Practice: Research and Methods, 160-173, ed. Pamela Moss. Oxford: Blackwell. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2001. Cyberspatial cognition and individual access to information: The behavioral foundation of cybergeography. Environment and Planning B, 28(1):21-37. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figure]

  • 2000. Interactive geovisualization of activity-travel patterns using three-dimensional geographical information systems: A methodological exploration with a large data set. Transportation Research C, 8:185-203. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 2000. Gender differences in space-time constraints. Area, 32(2):145-156. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2000. Analysis of human spatial behavior in a GIS environment: Recent developments and future prospects. Journal of Geographical Systems, 2(1):85-90. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract]

  • 2000. Distributed database design for mobile geographical applications. Journal of Database Management, 11(1):3-17. (Manhoi Choy, Mei-Po Kwan, and Hong Va Leong). [Abstract]

  • 2000. Interactive geovisualization of activity-travel patterns using 3D GIS. In Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research, ed. Jean-Claude Thill. New York: Pergamon. (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 2000. Human extensibility and individual hybrid-accessibility in space-time: A multi-scale representation using GIS. In Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility, 241-256, ed. Donald Janelle and David Hodge. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 1999. Gender, the home-work link, and space-time patterns of non-employment activities. Economic Geography, 75(4):370-394. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 1999. Gender and individual access to urban opportunities: A study using space-time measures. The Professional Geographer, 51(2):210-227. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 1998. Space-time and integral measures of individual accessibility: A comparative analysis using a point-based framework. Geographical Analysis, 30(3):191-216. (Mei-Po Kwan) [Abstract] [Figures]

  • 1998. Network-based constraints-oriented choice set formation using GIS. Geographical Systems, 5:139-162. (Mei-Po Kwan and Xiao-Dong Hong) [Abstract]

  • 1998. Information representation for driver decision support systems. In Theoretical Foundations of Travel Choice Modelling, 281-303, eds. Tommy Garling, Thomas Laitila and Kerstin Westin. New York: Pergamon. (Mei-Po Kwan, Reginald G. Golledge, and Jon Speigle)

  • 1997. GISICAS: An activity-based travel decision support system using a GIS-interfaced computational-process model. In Activity-Based Approaches To Travel Analysis, 263-282, edited by Dick F. Ettema and Harry J.P. Timmermans. New York: Pergamon.  (Mei-Po Kwan)

  • 1997. Computational process modelling of disaggregate travel behaviour. In Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis: Spatial Statistics, Behavioural Modelling and Neurocomputing, 171-185, edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Arthur Getis. Springer-Verlag: Berlin. (Mei-Po Kwan and Reginald G. Golledge)

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