Heat and park attendance: evidence from “small data” and “big data” in Hong Kong

T Hao, H Chang, S Liang, P Jones, PW Chan, L Li… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban heat disrupts the use of parks, although the extent of such disruptions remains
disputed. Literature relies on “small data” methods, such as questionnaires, field studies, or …

Characterizing environmental pollution with civil complaints and social media data: A case of the Greater Taipei Area

M Guo, Y Lin, RJ Shyu, J Huang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution is a major cause of nuisance and ill health among urban residents.
Complaints are traditionally self-reported through phone-based systems. Social media …

Leveraging social media as a source of mobility intelligence: An NLP-based approach

T Fontes, F Murçós, E Carneiro… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a deep learning framework for analyzing urban mobility by extracting
knowledge from messages collected from Twitter. The framework, which is designed to …

Architectural design and epidemic prevalence: Insights from Hong Kong's fifth wave

Q Qiao, C Sarkar, E Schuldenfrei, KY Lai, Y Zhou… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 transmissions and their relationships
with the built environment is crucial for effective pandemic prevention. While existing …

From physical space to cyberspace: Recessive gender biases in social media mirror the real world

K Shen, L Ding, L Kong, X Liu - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent decades, our society has witnessed significant advancements in Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), leading to the creation of cyberspace, also known as …

Using Twitter to Gauge Customer Satisfaction Response to a Major Transit Service Change in Calgary, Canada

R Al-Sahar, W Klumpenhouwer… - Transportation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Measuring public opinion about the quality of transit services is a key factor in understanding
and addressing customer dissatisfaction and increasing customer loyalty and ridership …

Service quality in rail systems: listen to the voice of social media

S Güner, K Taşkın, Hİ Cebeci… - Transportation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Service quality is essential to increase and maintain user loyalty to the railway system. In the
literature, surveys have been used to measure user satisfaction, and mathematical methods …

Community Quality Evaluation for Socially Sustainable Regeneration: A Study Using Multi-Sourced Geospatial Data and AI-Based Image Semantic Segmentation

J Chen, W Gan, N Liu, P Li, H Wang, X Zhao… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Chinese urban regeneration movement underscores a “people-oriented” paradigm,
aimed at addressing urban challenges stemming from rapid prior urbanization, while striving …

Fusing multi-source social media data and street view imagery to inform urban space quality: a study of user perceptions at Kampong Glam and Haji Lane

Y Wang - Urban Informatics, 2024 - Springer
This study proposes a novel approach to urban perception studies by integrating street view
imagery and multi-source social media data to infer user perceptions and preferences of …

Predictive Real-Time Traffic Management in Large-Scale Transportation Network

W Yao - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Operating transportation highway networks in real-time presents a formidable challenge.
Planned and unplanned incidents (eg hazardous weather conditions, accidents, local …