Presentation – Platial Analysis Lab

Highlights from AAG 2025 in Detroit

March 28, 2025

PhD candidate Dan Qiang and Prof. Grant McKenzie attended the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Detroit, MI this week…

Dan Qiang awarded Best Poster in TRB 2024 Session

January 11, 2024

Dan Qiang received the “Best Poster” award from the standing committee on public transportation planning and development at TRB2024…

Outstanding paper award at EMNLP2023

December 10, 2023

A new paper lead by lab member Mikael Brunila was recently awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP2023…

Two presentations at TRB2024

November 1, 2023

Two doctoral students from the lab will attend and present at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board…

Best paper award at GIScience ’23

October 6, 2023

Our paper “Platial k-anonymity” was selected for the Best Full Paper award at this year’s GIScience conference…

Platial Lab at UCGIS Symposium

June 7, 2023

This week Prof. McKenzie was a panellist at the 2023 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) symposium at Yale University…

Platial Lab at AAG 2023

April 4, 2023

Two members of the lab attended the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Denver, CO this year…

Qiang, Dan; McKenzie, Grant

Mobility Vitality: Measuring urban vitality through active and micro-mobility modes. Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 28th Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe Conference (AGILE 2025), AGILE GIScience Series, 2025.

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Romm, Daniel; Chavez, Jose Arturo Jasso; Kinman, Lexi; Salsabilian, Pegah; McKenzie, Grant; Manaugh, Kevin

The Cars are Going to be Alright: Examining Micromobility Infrastructure Space Allocation and Potential Improvement Scenarios in Montréal Journal Article

In: Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research, no. 100071, 2025.

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title = {The Cars are Going to be Alright: Examining Micromobility Infrastructure Space Allocation and Potential Improvement Scenarios in Montréal},

author = {Daniel Romm and Jose Arturo Jasso Chavez and Lexi Kinman and Pegah Salsabilian and Grant McKenzie and Kevin Manaugh},

doi = {10.1016/j.jcmr.2025.100071},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-06-07},

urldate = {2025-06-03},

journal = {Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research},

number = {100071},

abstract = {Many cities today are redesigning their streetscapes to redress the historical privilege afforded to the automobile in planning and policy. Much streetscape redesign is around transport infrastructure space, which largely prioritizes car travel and marginalizes other travel modes. Attempts by planners and policy makers to this end often are met with public opposition by advocates of the car, protesting about losing space on the street. This is empirically investigated with the case of Montréal by determining the allocation of street space to transport infrastructures, deriving measures of infrastructure space per traveller, and devising an Equal Infrastructure Allocation score to measure the imbalance between infrastructure provision per travel mode. Per borough, the distribution of transport infrastructure is examined, alongside correlations with demographic, socio-economic, land use, and crash rate variables. Potential scenarios of significant micromobility infrastructure improvement are modelled to test how infrastructure space apportionment per mode changes. This investigation discovers that even large improvements to micromobility infrastructure have a minor effect on space allocated to automobiles. Equal Infrastructure Allocation score and associated indicators are presented as useful tools for planners and policy makers implementing micromobility infrastructure projects, to better communicate with the public and address potential opposition.  },

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McKenzie, Grant; Romm, Daniel; Féré, Clara; Balarezo, Maria Laura Guerrero

Gender differences in urban recreational running: A data-driven approach Journal Article

In: Journal of Transport Geography, vol. 124, no. 104171, 2025.

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Zhang, Hongyu; McKenzie, Grant

Geoprivacy knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in contemporary China Journal Article

In: Geographical Review, 2024.

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