Xi Mei, Kevin M. Curtin, Daniel Turner, Nigel M. Waters, Matthew Rice
{"title":"Approximating the Length of Vehicle Routing Problem Solutions Using Complementary Spatial Information","authors":"Xi Mei, Kevin M. Curtin, Daniel Turner, Nigel M. Waters, Matthew Rice","doi":"10.1111/gean.12322","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12322","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accurately estimating the length of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) distances can inform transportation planning in a wide variety of delivery and service provision contexts. This study extends the work of previous research where multiple linear regression models were used to estimate the average distance of VRP solutions with various customer demands and capacity constraints. This research expands on that approach in two ways: first, the point patterns used in estimation have a wider range of customer clustering or dispersion values as measured by the Average Nearest Neighbor Index (ANNI) as opposed to just using a Poisson or random point process; second, the tour coefficient adjusted by this complementary spatial information is shown to exhibit statistically more accurate estimations. To generate a full range of ANNI values, point patterns were simulated using a Poisson process, a Matern clustering process, and a simple sequential inhibition process to obtain random, clustered, and dispersed point patterns, respectively. The coefficients of independent variables in the models were used to explain how the spatial distributions of customers influence the VRP distances. These results demonstrate that complementary spatial data can be used to improve operational results, a concept that could be applied more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"55 1","pages":"125-154"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48737535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nik Lomax, Andrew P. Smith, Luke Archer, Alistair Ford, James Virgo
{"title":"An Open-Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land-Use Change","authors":"Nik Lomax, Andrew P. Smith, Luke Archer, Alistair Ford, James Virgo","doi":"10.1111/gean.12320","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12320","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The size, composition, and spatial distribution of both people and households have a substantial impact on the demand for and development and delivery of infrastructure required to support the population. Infrastructure encompasses a wide range of domains including energy, transport, and water, each of which has its own set of spatial catchments at differing scales. Demographic projections are required to assess potential future demand; however, official projections are usually not provided at a high level of spatial resolution required for infrastructure planning. Furthermore, generating bespoke demographic projections, often incorporating a range of scenarios of possible future demographic change is a specialist, resource intensive job and as such is often missing from infrastructure development projects. In this paper we make the case that such demographic projections should be at the heart of infrastructure planning and present a set of open-source models which can be used to undertake this demographic projection work, thus providing the tools needed to fill the identified gap. We make use of a case study for the United Kingdom to exemplify how a range of scenarios can be assessed using our model.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"54 3","pages":"599-622"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63542616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R Packages for Analyzing Spatial Data: A Comparative Case Study with Areal Data","authors":"Roger Bivand","doi":"10.1111/gean.12319","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12319","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The count of open source software packages hosted by the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) using key spatial data handling packages has now passed 1,000. Providing a comprehensive review of these packages is beyond the scope of an article. Consequently, this review takes the form of a comparative case study, reproducing some of the approach and workflow of a spatial analysis of a data set including almost all the census tracts in the coterminous United States. The case study moves from visualization and the construction of a spatial weights matrix, to exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial regression. For comparison, implementations of the same steps in PySAL and GeoDa are interwoven, and points of convergence and divergence noted and discussed. Conclusions are drawn about the usefulness of open source software, the significance of sharing contributions both in software implementation but also more broadly in reproducible research, and in opportunities for exchanging ideas and solutions with other research domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"54 3","pages":"488-518"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12319","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48945634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A deeper look at impacts in spatial Durbin model with sphet","authors":"Gianfranco Piras, Paolo Postiglione","doi":"10.1111/gean.12318","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12318","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article focuses on the estimation of the spatial Durbin model and associated relative impacts implemented in the R library <b>sphet</b>. Specifically, the current version of the library offers two ways of performing inference: one based on drawing samples from a multivariate normal distribution, and the other based on an analytical formula. The performance of these two methods is compared using an extensive Monte Carlo experiment. As an illustration of the kind of analysis that can be performed with <b>sphet</b>, the article also presents an empirical application looking at economic growth of Italian provinces.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"54 3","pages":"664-684"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44665605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexis Comber, Christopher Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, Guanpeng Dong, Richard Harris, Binbin Lu, Yihe Lü, Daisuke Murakami, Tomoki Nakaya, Yunqiang Wang, Paul Harris
{"title":"A Route Map for Successful Applications of Geographically Weighted Regression","authors":"Alexis Comber, Christopher Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, Guanpeng Dong, Richard Harris, Binbin Lu, Yihe Lü, Daisuke Murakami, Tomoki Nakaya, Yunqiang Wang, Paul Harris","doi":"10.1111/gean.12316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12316","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is increasingly used in spatial analyses of social and environmental data. It allows spatial heterogeneities in processes and relationships to be investigated through a series of local regression models rather than a single global one. Standard GWR assumes that relationships between the response and predictor variables operate at the same spatial scale, which is frequently not the case. To address this, several GWR variants have been proposed. This paper describes a route map to decide whether to use a GWR model or not, and if so which of three core variants to apply: a standard GWR, a mixed GWR or a multiscale GWR (MS-GWR). The route map comprises 3 primary steps that should always be undertaken: (1) a basic linear regression, (2) a MS-GWR, and (3) investigations of the results of these in order to decide whether to use a GWR approach, and if so for determining the appropriate GWR variant. The paper also highlights the importance of investigating a number of secondary issues at global and local scales including collinearity, the influence of outliers, and dependent error terms. Code and data for the case study used to illustrate the route map are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"55 1","pages":"155-178"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12316","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50142834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiara Ghiringhelli, Gianfranco Piras, Giuseppe Arbia, Antonietta Mira
{"title":"Recursive Estimation of the Spatial Error Model","authors":"Chiara Ghiringhelli, Gianfranco Piras, Giuseppe Arbia, Antonietta Mira","doi":"10.1111/gean.12317","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12317","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we propose a recursive approach to estimate the spatial error model. We compare the suggested methodology with standard estimation procedures and we report a set of Monte Carlo experiments which show that the recursive approach substantially reduces the computational effort affecting the precision of the estimators within reasonable limits. The proposed technique can prove helpful when applied to real-time streams of geographical data that are becoming increasingly available in the big data era. Finally, we illustrate this methodology using a set of earthquake data.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"55 1","pages":"90-106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42490531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Causality: A Systematic Review on Spatial Causal Inference","authors":"Kamal Akbari, Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko","doi":"10.1111/gean.12312","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12312","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing interest in causal inference in recent years has led to new causal inference methodologies and their applications across disciplines and research domains. Yet, studies on <i>spatial</i> causal inference are still rare. Causal inference on spatial processes is faced with additional challenges, such as spatial dependency, spatial heterogeneity, and spatial effects. These challenges can lead to spurious results and subsequently, incorrect interpretations of the outcomes of causal analyses. Recognizing the growing importance of causal inference in the spatial domain, we conduct a systematic literature review on spatial causal inference based on a formal concept mapping. To identify how to assess and control for the adverse effects of spatial influences, we assess publications relevant to spatial causal inference based on criteria relating to application discipline, methods used, and techniques applied for managing issues related to spatial processes. We thus present a snapshot of state of the art in spatial causal inference and identify methodological gaps, weaknesses and challenges of current spatial inference studies, along with opportunities for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"55 1","pages":"56-89"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49363047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GeoDa, From the Desktop to an Ecosystem for Exploring Spatial Data","authors":"Luc Anselin, Xun Li, Julia Koschinsky","doi":"10.1111/gean.12311","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since its introduction more than 15 years ago, the GeoDa software for the exploration of spatial data has transitioned from a closed source Windows-only solution to an open source and cross-platform product that takes on the look and feel of the native operating system. This article reports on the evolution in the functionality and architecture of the software and pays particular attention to its new implementation as a library, libgeoda. This library, through a clearly structured API, can be integrated into other software environments, such as R (rgeoda) and Python (pygeoda). This integration is illustrated with two small empirical examples, investigating local clusters in a historical London cholera data set and among socioeconomic determinants of health in Chicago. A timing experiment demonstrates the competitive performance of GeoDa desktop, libgeoda (C++), rgeoda and pygeoda compared to established solutions in R spdep and Python PySAL, evaluating conditional permutation inference for the Local Moran statistic.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"54 3","pages":"439-466"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46860040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reproducibility of Research During COVID-19: Examining the Case of Population Density and the Basic Reproductive Rate from the Perspective of Spatial Analysis","authors":"Antonio Paez","doi":"10.1111/gean.12307","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 led to explosive growth in scientific research. Alas, much of the research in the literature lacks conditions to be reproducible, and recent publications on the association between population density and the basic reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 are no exception. Relatively few papers share code and data sufficiently, which hinders not only verification but additional experimentation. In this article, an example of reproducible research shows the potential of spatial analysis for epidemiology research during COVID-19. Transparency and openness means that independent researchers can, with only modest efforts, verify findings and use different approaches as appropriate. Given the high stakes of the situation, it is essential that scientific findings, on which good policy depends, are as robust as possible; as the empirical example shows, reproducibility is one of the keys to ensure this.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"54 4","pages":"860-880"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652856/pdf/GEAN-9999-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39719203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}