Publications

(Papers with downloadable pdf files - the full text versions may deviate from the final published versions)

Articles in Referred Journals

Yuan, Y., Chow, T. E., Wang, P. Wang, F. 2025. A review of third-party traffic data for public and private use: opportunities and challenges. Advances in Transportation Studies, 63, 185-202.

Wang, P., Yuan, Y. 2025. Analyzing key factors influencing human mobility before and during COVID-19 with explainable machine learning. Transactions in GIS, 29(1), Article #e13271.

Bobo, R., Chow, T. E., Yuan, Y. 2024. Floor-level occupancy estimation of a multi-story building using coarse Wi-Fi data. Papers in Applied Geography, 11(2), 171–197.

Ramos, C., Yuan, Y. 2024. Neighborhood-scale wildfire evacuation vulnerability in Hays County, TX. Geographies, 4(3), 481–499.

Jiang, Y., Yuan, Y., Han, S. Y. 2024. An entropy-based measurement for understanding origin-destination trip distributions: a case study of New York City taxis. Big Earth Data, 8(4), 673–702.

Bin Asad, K. M., Yuan, Y. 2024. The impact of scale on extracting individual mobility patterns from location-based social media. Sensors, 24(12), Article #333796.

Yuan, Y., Wylie, A. G. 2024. Comparing Machine Learning and Time Series Approaches in Predictive Modeling of Urban Fire Incidents: A Case Study of Austin, Texas. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13, Article #149.

Liu, J., Yuan, Y. 2024. Exploring dynamic urban mobility patterns from traffic flow data using community detection. Annals of GIS, 1-20.

Bin Asad, K. M., Yuan, Y. 2023. The Impact of Scale on Extracting Urban Mobility Patterns Using Texture Analysis. Computational Urban Science, 3, Article #33.

Yang, M., Yuan, Y., Zhan, F. B. 2023. Urban Interactions based on Floating Car Data – A Case Study of Chengdu, China. Annals of GIS, 29(1), 37-53.

Yuan, Y., Xu, Y. 2022. Modeling Activity Spaces using Big Geo-Data: Progress and Challenges. Geography Compass, 16(11), e12663.

Ekeanyanwu, C.V., Bose, P., Beavers, M., Yuan, Y., Obisakin, I. 2022. Modeling and Mapping Flood Hazard with a Flood Risk Assessment Tool: A Case Study of Austin, Texas. Journal of Geographic Information System, 14(4), 332-346.

Xing, X., Yuan, Y., Huang, Z., Peng, X., Zhao, P., Liu, Y. 2022. Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96, 101832.

Wang, X., Yuan, Y. 2020. Modeling human activity spaces from location-based social media: a case study of Weibo, The Professional Geographer, 22(4), 930-957.

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y. , Zhang, F. 2020. Mining urban perceptions from social media data. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 20, 51-55.

Yuan, Y. , Lu, Y., Chow, T. E., Ye, C., Alyaqout, A., Liu, Y. 2020. The missing parts from social media enabled smart cities: who, where, when, and what?. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 110, 462-475.

Chen, L., Gao, Y., Zhu, D., Yuan, Y. , Liu, Y. 2019. Quantifying the scale effect in geospatial big data using semi-variogram, PloS One, 14(11), e0225139.

Yuan, Y. , Wang, X. 2018. Exploring the effectiveness of location-based social media in modeling user activity space: a case study of Weibo. Transactions in GIS, 22(4), 930-957.

Yuan, Y., Wei, G., Lu, Y. 2018. Evaluating gender representativeness of location-based social media: a case study of Weibo. Annals of GIS, 24(3), 163-176.

Yuan, Y., Liu, Y., Wei, G. 2017. Exploring inter-country connection in mass media: a case study of China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 62, 86-96.

Yuan, Y. Medel, M. 2016. Characterizing International Travel Behavior from Geotagged Photos: A Case Study of Flickr. PLoS One, 11(5), e0154885.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2016. Exploring georeferenced mobile phone datasets - a literature survey. Geography Compass (invited paper), 10(6), 239-252

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2016. Analyzing the distribution of human activity space from mobile phone usage- An individual and urban-oriented study. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 30(8), 1594-1621.

Ahas, R., Aasa, A., Yuan, Y., Raubal, M., Smoreda, Z., Liu, Y., Ziemlicki, C., Tiru, M., Zook, M. 2015. Everyday Space-Time Geographies: Using mobile phone based sensor data to monitor urban activity in Harbin, Paris and Tallinn. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 29(11), 496-520.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2014. Measuring similarity of mobile phone user trajectories - a Spatio-temporal Edit Distance method. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 28(3), 496-520.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M., Liu, Y. 2012. Correlating mobile phone usage and travel behavior – a case study of Harbin, China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 36(2), 118-130.

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., Xiao, D., Hu, J., Wu, L. 2010. A point set based approximation for areal objects - case study of representing localities, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 34(1), 28-39.

Chen, K., Lin, X., Yuan, Y., Li, R., Liu, Y. 2009. Representation and management of type information in digital gazetteers, Geography and Geo-Information Science, 25(5), 6-11. (In Chinese)

Yuan, Y., Gao, Y. 2008. Object-oriented modeling and implement technologies of spatio-temporal data, Geography and Geo-Information Science, 28(3), 41-44. (In Chinese)

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., Zhang, Y. 2008. A cognitive approach to modeling vague geographical features – a case study of Zhongguancun, Journal of Remote Sensing, 12(2), 370-377. (In Chinese)

Articles in Referred Conference Proceedings (Full Papers Only)

Yuan, Y., Wang, P., Summers, L. forthcoming, accepted in 2025. Comparing the spatio-temporal patterns of crime incidents based on time series analysis: a case study of Austin, Texas. Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, 1-7.

Yuan, Y. 2021. The impact of scale on spatial connections: an exploratory analysis. In Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), 1-5.

Yuan, Y., Mills, D., 2019, Exploring Urban Dynamics from Bluetooth Tracking Data: A Case Study of Austin, Texas. In: Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), Tokyo, Japan, 1-6.

Yuan, Y., Le Noc, M. 2018. Exploring Urban Mobility from Taxi Trajectories: A Case Study of Nanjing, China. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Porto, Portugal, SciTePress, 1-6.

Yuan, Y. 2017. Modeling Inter-country Connection from Geotagged News Reports A Time-Series Analysis. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, Fukuoka, Japan, Springer International, 183-190.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2012. Extracting dynamic urban mobility patterns from mobile phone data. In: Geographic Information Science - 7th International Conference (GIScience 2012), Columbus, Ohio, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Volume 7478, 354-367.

Kang, C., Gao, S., Lin, X., Xiao, Y., Yuan, Y., Liu, Y., Ma, X. 2010. Analyzing and geo-visualizing individual human mobility patterns using mobile call records. In: Proceedings of Geoinformatics 2010. Beijing, China, IEEE Xplore, 1-7 (doi:10.1109/ GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567857).

Liu, Y., Li, R., Chen, K., Yuan, Y., Huang, L., Yu, H. 2009. KIDGS: A Geographical Knowledge-informed Digital Gazetteer Service. In: Proceedings of Geoinformatics, Fairfax, USA, IEEE Xplore, 1-6 (doi: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495).

Articles in Referred Book Chapters

Yuan, Y., Wang, P., McKenzie, G., Sun, M., Xu, Y., Verma, P. 2025. Human mobility in the post-pandemic world. In X. Huang, S. Das, X. Ye, & K. Stewart (Eds), Urban Human Mobility--Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities, CRC Press, 221–235.

Liu, Y., Gao, S.,Yuan, Y., Zhang, F., Kang, C, Y. Kang, Wang. K. 2021. Methods of social sensing in urban studies. In: Urban Remote Sensing, eds. X. Yang, Wiley-Blackwell.

Yuan, Y., Bin Asad, K., Qiang, Y., Chow, T. E. 2020. Point Pattern Analysis, The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2020 Edition), doi: 10.22224/gistbok/2020.1.13 (digital book).

Chow, T. E., Yuan, Y. 2019. GIS APIs. In: Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, doi: 10.22224/gistbok/2019.2.15 (digital book).

Yuan, Y. 2017. Exploring spatial decay effect in mass media and social media: a case study of China. In: Advances in GeoComputation, eds. D. A. Griffith, Y. Chun, D. J. Dean, Springer, 133-142.

Yuan, Y. , Kang, C., Cao, P., Liu, Y. 2017. Big geospatial data and its applications in urban studies In: Frontier of GIS, eds. H. Lin, X. Shi, Higher Education Press, 167-189.

Patents

Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, R., Y. Yuan, Chen, C., Gao, Y. 2009. Semantic-based General Chinese Place Name Searching System, Patent No. 200910088885.4, P. R. China.

Extended Abstracts and Workshop Papers

Yuan, Y. , Wylie, A. G. 2023. Analyzing the spatial-temporal patterns of fire data using machine learning methods, In: Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), 1-3.

Zhang, P., Lee, H.,Yuan, Y. 2020. The impacts of social ties and sentiment on topic popularity in microblogs. In: the Southwest Decision Sciences 50th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA, 1-2.

Yuan, Y. , G. Wei. 2016. Evaluating demographic representativeness of location-based social media: a case study of Weibo. In: the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 1-4.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2012. Similarity measurement of mobile phone user trajectories - a modified edit distance method. In: Workshop on “Progress in Movement Analysis - Experiences with Real Data, Zurich, Switzerland.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2012. A framework for spatio-temporal clustering from mobile phone data. In: AGILE Workshop: Complex Data Mining in a GeoSpatial Context, Avignon, France.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2011 Extracting clustered urban mobility and activities from georeferenced mobile phone datasets. In: ISPRS Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining and Analysis (STDM'11), London, United Kingdom.

Yuan, Y. , Liu, Y. 2010 Modeling temporal uncertainty of events-a descriptive perspective. In: Proceedings of Geographic Information Science - 6th International Conference, GIScience 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume, eds. R. Purves & R. Weibel. Zurich, Switzerland.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2010 On Correlation between Mobile Phone Usage and Travel Behavior - a case study of Harbin, China. In: Proceedings of Geographic Information Science - 6th International Conference, GIScience 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume, eds. R. Purves & R. Weibel. Zurich, Switzerland.

Yuan, Y. , Raubal, M. 2010 Spatio-temporal knowledge discovery from georeferenced mobile phone data. In: MPA'10 - 1st Workshop on Movement Pattern Analysis, Zurich, Switzerland.

Yihong Yuan