Harvey Miller
· Professor, Reusche Chair in Geographic Information ScienceOhio State University · Geography
Active 1941–2026
Academic metrics are sourced from OpenAlex and public funding records; values may differ from Google Scholar.
About
Harvey Miller is a Professor and the Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science at The Ohio State University Department of Geography. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University, earned in 1991, and has a background that includes an M.A. and B.A. in Geography from Kent State University. His research and teaching focus on the intersection between geographic information science and transportation science, with particular interest in how people use mobility and communications technologies to allocate scarce time among activities in geographic space, a perspective known as time geography. Miller is interested in the social dimensions of transportation and the implications of human mobility and accessibility for sustainable transportation, livable communities, and public health. His main approach involves the development and application of GIS and spatial analysis techniques to extract information from fine-grained mobility and spatio-temporal data. He is also the Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA). His work emphasizes understanding mobility, livability, and sustainability through spatial analysis, contributing to the fields of GIScience and transportation science.
Research topics
- Geography
- Business
- Economics
- Engineering
- Medicine
- Sociology
- Transport engineering
- Demographic economics
- Computer Science
- Political Science
Selected publications
The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on public transit demand in the United States
PLoS ONE · 2020 · 305 citations
The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions led to major transit demand decline for many public transit systems in the United States. This paper is a systematic analysis of the dynamics and dimensions of this unprecedented decline. Using transit demand data derived from a widely used transit navigation app, we fit logistic functions to model the decline in daily demand and derive key parameters: base value, the apparent minimal level of demand and cliff and base points, representing the initi…
Public transit cuts during COVID-19 compound social vulnerability in 22 US cities
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2022 · 69 citations
Journal of Transport Geography · 2020 · 56 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingMeasuring the impacts of dockless micro-mobility services on public transit accessibility
Computers Environment and Urban Systems · 2022-09-12 · 48 citations
articleSenior authorCOVID-19 exacerbates unequal food access
Applied Geography · 2021 · 44 citations
Recent grants
NSF · $475k · 2012–2014
NSF · $70k · 2016–2018
NSF · $417k · 2013–2017
Frequent coauthors
- 26 shared
Ken R. Smith
- 23 shared
Barbara B. Brown
Texas Christian University
- 20 shared
Calvin P. Tribby
Beckman Research Institute
- 17 shared
Carol M. Werner
- 14 shared
Shih‐Lung Shaw
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- 11 shared
Ying Song
University of Minnesota
- 11 shared
Tijs Neutens
- 10 shared
Armita Kar
Education
- 1991
PhD, Geography
The Ohio State University
- 1987
MA, Geography
Kent State University
- 1985
BA
Kent State University
Similar researchers at Ohio State University
- Resume-aware match score
- Save to shortlist
- AI-drafted outreach
See your match with Harvey Miller
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- 30-second signup