My research program examines ways to increase active living and promote healthy communities. I engage these topics using geospatial tools and empirical modeling strategies with the goal to provide a fuller understanding of contextual and compositional factors affecting accessibility, mobility, and social equity; with a keen focus on the moderating influence of urban design and public health.  The techniques I use largly consist of: GISc, urban data science, spatial statistics, agent based modeling (ABM), spatiotemporal modeling, and other geovisualization strategies. The following topics represent ongoing and past research endeavors: 

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• Active transportation

• Micromobility assessments 

• Urban design and public health

• Children's walking behavior

• Spatial statistical analysis

• Transportation psychology

• Geovisualization and geospatial technology

• Inter-modal transportation choice

• Food access and demand

• Human wayfinding 

• Travel-demand forecasting

• Crime risk modeling

• Multi-criteria decision-making

• Neighborhood-quality evaluation  

• Bicycle crash modeling

• Environmental health