Alan Murray
Director, Center
for Urban and Regional Analysis
Professor, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University
1036 Derby Hall, 154 North
Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1361,
USA
Phone: 1-614-688-5441; Fax: 1-614-292-6213
Email: murray.308@osu.edu
Vita
Editor,
Geographical
Analysis
Education
Ph.D., 1995
Department of Geography
M.A., 1992
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
B.S., 1990
Department of Mathematics
Research Interests
- Geographic information science.
- Urban, regional, and natural resource planning and development.
- Applications of quantitative methods for addressiing
issues in telecommunications, sustainability, and assessing patterns of
criminal activity.
- Location modeling, transportation systems, spatial representation,
and spatial optimization methods.
- Spatial decision support system (SDSS) and geographical information
system (GIS) application and development.
Current and
Recent Projects
- Mitigating disaster and terrorism impacts to critical
infrastructure
- Geographic
representation in location coverage modeling
- Spatial representation and
modeling in natural resource management
- Multi-level,
active attention surveillance
- Analysis of
urban crime patterns
- Transit route analysis in
- Homeless shelter system analysis in
Publications
Teaching
- Winter 2008 Geography 647 - Location Analysis
- Autumn 2007 Geography 840.01 – Seminar in Location Theory
(GIS and modeling)
- Autumn 2006 Geography 840.01 – Seminar in Location Theory (Spatial
representation issues)
- Autumn 2005 Geography 683 - Introduction to Geographic Analysis
- Autumn 2005 Geography 889 - Seminar in Geography (Professional
development in Geography)
- Autumn 2005 Geography 607 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information
Systems (team taught)
- Autumn 2004 Geography 983 - Special Topics in Quantitative
Geography (Network analysis)
- Winter 2004 Geography 685 - Intermediate Geographic Information
Systems
- Autumn 2003 Geography 983 - Special Topics in Quantitative
Geography (Voronoi diagrams and spatial
optimization)
- Autumn 2002 Geography 840.02 - Seminar in Location Analysis
- Autumn 2001 Geography 200 - World Regional Geography
- Autumn 2001 Geography 845 - Seminar in Transportation Geography
(Public transit)
- Autumn 2000 Geography 983 - Special Topics in Quantitative
Geography (Lagrangian relaxation)
- Autumn 1999 Geography 840.02 - Seminar in Location Analysis
Other interesting sites
Associations
- American Association of Geographers
- Regional Science Association
International
- Society of American Foresters
- Western
Regional Science Association
- INFORMS
Groups -
Location, Transportation & Modeling
- Spatial Analysis and Modeling
(SAM) Specialty Group - AAG
- SOLA - Location Group
- EWGLA-EURO
Location Group
- Transportation -
AAG
- GIS - AAG
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