Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems

Jean-Claude Thill is Knight Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his doctoral degree in Geography from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and serves on the editorial board of a number of international journals in geography, urban science and regional science. He served as President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and has been elected Fellow of RSAI. His research has focused on the spatial organization of socio-economic systems across scales. His recent contributions have involved leveraging spatial data analytics (including GeoComputation) to better apprehend urban and regional systems at a finer spatio-temporal granularity.

• Innovations in GIS&T, location modeling and spatial analysis.- A bayesian interpolation method to estimate per capita GDP at the sub-regional level: local labor markets in Spain.- Discovering functional zones in a city using human movements and points of interest.- Is your city economic, cultural, or political? recognition of city image based on multidimensional scaling of quantified web pages.- Spatial hedonic modeling of housing prices using auxiliary maps.- Modeling and simulation of cohesion policy funding and regional growth diffusion in an enlarged European Union.- Analyzing and simulating urban density: exploring the differences between policy ambitions and actual trends in the Netherlands.- A decision support system for farmland preservation: integration of past and present land use.- Aggregate and disaggregate dynamic spatial interaction approaches to modeling coin diffusion.- Comprehensive evaluation of the regional environmental and socio-economic impacts of adopting advanced technologies for the treatment of sewage sludge in Beijing.- Locational modeling in spatial analysis: development and maturity of concepts.- Spatial uncertainty challenges in location modeling with dispersion requirements.- The nearest neighbor ant colony system: a spatially-explicit algorithm for the traveling salesman problem.- Large-scale energy infrastructure optimization: breakthroughs and challenges of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) modeling.- The recharging infrastructure needs for long distance travel by electric vehicles: a comparison of battery-switching and quick-charging stations.- Transport strategies in reverse logistics for establishing a sound material-cycle society.