Platial Analysis Lab

"The Cars are Going to be Alright" - New publication.
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Platial at CTRF: Challenging Car-Centric Cities Daniel Romm recently attended the 60th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum...

PhD candidate Daniel Romm recently attended the 60th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF)... platial.science/platial-at-c...

LBS 2025: Mobility, Data, and Urban Insights Last week, Prof. McKenzie participated in the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services, held in Espoo, Finland...

Last week, Prof. McKenzie participated in the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services, held in Espoo, Finland… #lbs2025
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Platial Lab attending AGILE 2025 PhD candidate Dan Qiang and former student Dr. Hongyu Zhang will travel to Dresden, Germany in June to present their work...

PhD candidate Dan Qiang and former student Dr. Hongyu Zhang will travel to Dresden, Germany in June to present their recent papers at #AGILE2025. #GIScience
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We are recruiting a fully funded Master's student interested in equity in shared e-micromobility (Fall 2025 start). Click through the link for details. @kmanaugh.bsky.social

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What makes a runnable city? - The Tribune Curating a culture of active living is central to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainability and Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 3, healthy living, and SDG 13, climate action. Active livi...

Nice piece in the Tribune about our analysis of gender and running in Montreal (and Washington, D.C.) www.thetribune.ca/sci-tech/wha...

Poster for the sustainable urban mobility challenge

Interested in sustainable cities, data, and creative solutions for urban mobility? Join the Sustainable Urban Mobility Challenge at the #DDMA2025 workshop May 5 (Espoo, FI) for a chance to showcase your skills, win prizes, and contribute to discussions in the field! ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025#cha...

New research highlights gender differences in urban running Our recent publication identifies gender differences in urban running patterns with the objective of shaping safer, more inclusive cities...

New research from our team highlights gender differences in urban running: platial.science/new-research...

Getting stoked for #GIScience2025 in Christchurch. @giscience-conf.bsky.social just announced student travel scholarships as well: giscience2025.org#scholarships.

Taking AI into the Tunnels - Journal #151 Mikael Brunila argues for a politics of opacity in the face of AI dominance.

A great read on the value of decentralized (and opaque) AI models by recent PhD grad @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/151/...

Lights Out: Examining Power Outages and Energy Equity in Quebec Our proposal to examine power outages and vulnerability across Quebec has been selected for funding...

Excited to kick-start our new collaborative, CDSI-funded project "Lights Out: Examining Power Outages and Vulnerability Across Quebec." @mcgillgeography.bsky.social
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The call for participation in our 2nd Workshop on "Geoprivacy for Personalized Health" is online. It will be in Luxembourg this year, Feb 26 - Mar 1. Limited travel funding is available. Details at the link below. @geoai.bsky.social

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Lab member Priyanka Verma presented her work "A comparative analysis of US micromobility usage with socioeconomic and build environment factors" at #TRBAM2025 this morning. #TRBAM

A research agenda for GIScience in a time of disruptions Social issues, AI, and climate change are just a few of the disruptive focuses impacting science. The field of GIScience is well positioned to respond to accelerating disruptions due to the interdi...

A research agenda for GIScience in a time of disruptions"
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La version française du rapport de l’atelier sur la confidentialité des données géospatiales pour la santé personnalisée est désormais en ligne à osf.io/cuawr

We held the Lab+ holiday gathering this week. Great to step off campus and celebrate the team.

The Potential of Shared Micromobility Systems for Connecting to Regional Transit Services In a Position Paper prepared for Ontario's Metrolinx, Daniel Romm provides an overview of shared micromobility systems...

In a Position Paper prepared for Ontario’s #Metrolinx, lab member, @daniel-romm.bsky.social provides an overview of the potential for current shared #micromobility systems. platial.science/the-potentia...

GeoAI and Urban Mobility Analytics (AAG 2025) For the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting next year (AAG 2025), we are organizing a paper presentation session...

We are organizing a session at next year's American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2025) on Urban Mobility Analytics. If you are attending, consider submitting an abstract to our session:
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Hi everyone! We are starting a social media account here on BlueSky - please come and join us! 🍂

GEOPRIVACY KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIORS in CONTEMPORARY CHINA China has an Internet penetration rate of over 70 percent and a massive user base of social media. However, the topic of privacy attitudes among Chinese individuals remains understudied. We analyze...

Very happy to see this paper "Geoprivacy knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in contemporary china," led by Hongyu Zhang, come to light. #geoprivacy
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The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory Professor McKenzie hosted the 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory last week in Quebec City...

Some photos from #COSIT2024. platial.science/a-wrap-on-co...

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Quebec maple syrup swag at #COSIT2024.

Geoprivacy for Personalized Health Workshop 2024 The Geoprivacy for personalized health workshop aims to explore strategies and techniques to protect individuals' location data privacy while leveraging geographic information for tailored healthcare ...

Registration (by way of sending us an email) is still open for the "Geoprivacy for Personalized Health" workshop on September 13th on McGill's downtown campus. Details through the link. Please share. ptal-io.github.io/gph2024/

People sitting at a workshop

Do you have an idea for a Thematic Session (in-conference workshop) at this year's Conference on Spatial Information Theory? The COSIT organizers would love to see a short proposal from you and your colleagues. #cosit2024 cosit.ca#thematic

McGill Redpath Museum

Happy Holidays from the lab