Subhrajit "Subhro" Guhathakurta
· Director, MSUA Program; Harry West Professor; Director, Center for Urban Resilience and AnalyticsGeorgia Institute of Technology · City and Regional Planning
Active 1989–2026
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About
Subhrajit "Subhro" Guhathakurta is the Harry West Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. He joined the institution in 2011 as the director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems, which was renamed the Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization (CSPAV), and later the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics (CURA), under his leadership. He was named chair of the School of City & Regional Planning in 2018 and completed his term in 2021. Professor Guhathakurta has a background that includes serving as associate director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU) and being among the founding faculty members of ASU’s School of Sustainability. He was instrumental in developing the Urban Modeling and Simulation Lab at ASU’s College of Design. His academic contributions include authoring six books and monographs and over 75 scientific papers. His editorial work includes editing significant publications such as "Integrated Urban and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research," "Visualizing Sustainable Planning," and "The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education." He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and is on the editorial boards of several leading planning journals. His research focuses on spatial analytics, planning, and policy, leading multidisciplinary teams to pursue externally funded projects…
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Civil engineering
- Business
- Transport engineering
- Machine Learning
- Geography
- Psychology
- Accounting
Selected publications
Environment and Behavior · 2021 · 197 citations
The built environment characteristics associated with walkability range from neighborhood-level urban form factors to street-level urban design factors. However, many existing walkability indices are based on neighborhood-level factors and lack consideration for street-level factors. Arguably, this omission is due to the lack of a scalable way to measure them. This paper uses computer vision to quantify street-level factors from street view images in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Correlation analysis s…
Landscape and Urban Planning · 2023 · 46 citations
Development and validation of automated microscale walkability audit method
Health & Place · 2021 · 38 citations
Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice · 2025-03-21 · 8 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorThis study examines pedestrian route choice behavior, focusing on how different sociodemographic groups vary in their preferences for street environments by using GPS trajectories collected from smartphone-based travel surveys in Chicago, Illinois. A Path Size Logit Model is used to estimate pedestrians’ preferences for walking in different types of environments. In addition, the trade-off concept is employed to measure the additional distance pedestrians are willing to walk in response to speci…
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology · 2024-06-10 · 4 citations
articleOpen accessThis research assessed the impact of efficiently expanding the biking network in Atlanta, Georgia, using dedicated lanes for bicycles. A total of three different conditions: existing, proposed (by the authors), and alternative (suggested by the City of Atlanta) conditions were modeled to see the effectiveness of bike infrastructure design improvement and expansion. Trajectory data collected from the VISSIM simulation model was used in FHWA’s Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM) to analyze th…
Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 17 shared
Bon Woo Koo
Toronto Metropolitan University
- 8 shared
Noah Posner
- 8 shared
Jon Sanford
- 8 shared
Chaeyeon Han
Georgia Institute of Technology
- 8 shared
Nisha Botchwey
University of Minnesota
- 7 shared
Ge Zhang
Hong Kong Baptist University
- 7 shared
Uijeong Hwang
- 6 shared
Giovanni Circella
Ghent University
Awards & honors
- Mercator Professorship by DFG (German National Science Found…
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