Bruce Appleyard, PhD
Dr. Appleyard is an Associate Professor in City & Regional Planning and Public
Administration at SDSU, with doctoral training in geo-spatial
analysis, behavioral economics, econometrics, and applied
transportation and land use policy analysis. Dr. Appleyard
is also an Associate Director in the Human Dynamics in
the Mobile Age (HDMA) research center, and the Assistant
Director of the Active Transportation Research Center,
both based at SDSU. Dr. Appleyard has led several research
efforts examining the relationship between public transport,
land use, socio-economics, and a variety of outcomes related
to public health, sustainability, economic vitality, and
equity.
Dr. Appleyard was the co-pi for the development of the Handbook for
Building Livable Transit Corridors and the
associated
Livability Calculator, sponsored by the National
Academies of Sciences’ Transit Cooperative Research
Project (TCRP). This required extensive geo-spatial and
econometric, mixed method analysis of all transit stations
and corridors throughout the us. Dr. Appleyard has also
been the project lead for the development of the sustainable
transportation calculator for the smart mobility framework
implementation project for the state of California.
Geoff Boeing, PhD
Geoff Boeing is an Assistant Professor of urban informatics and planning in the School
of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. He is a faculty
affiliate of the Network Science Institute and the Global Resilience Institute as well
as a core faculty member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Northeastern's
center for digital humanities and computational social science. He received his
PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
His work revolves around urban form, spatial networks, and data science. Recent
projects have focused on 1, the nature and character of urban street networks around
the world and 2, how data availability shapes our understanding of housing affordability.
He developed and maintains the OSMnx street network modeling software.
Chris Allen
Chris Allen is a PhD candidate in the department of geography at SDSU,
where he focuses on using geospatial techniques
and new data sources to examine well-being in urban areas.
prior to entering the PhD program, Chris worked as a software
verification engineer in the avionics industry and completed
an MA in urban history at San Diego State. As a research
assistant at san diego state, he has worked primarily on
projects to collect and analyze social media data to study
topics ranging from disease outbreak to disaster management.
in this role, Chris’s duties have included database
administration, web dashboard creation (both server-side
and client-side programming), and geospatial analysis.
Eduardo Cordova
Eduardo Cordova graduated with distinction in his major from San Diego State University
with a degree in geography with an emphasis in geographic
information systems (GIS) in December of 2016. He has worked
on a variety of projects which include the excel livability
calculator, typology of transit corridor livability, carbon
emissions study, and crime stop studies. his contributions
range from map creation, python application development,
and data interpretation and management. His primary skill-set
include Python programming, ArcGIS, and Arc online.
