Harvey Miller

Short Biography

Harvey J. Miller is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Utah. His research and teaching interests include geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and geocomputational techniques applied to understanding how transportation and communication technologies shape individual lives and urban morphology. He is specifically interested in time geography; this examines individuals’ allocation of time among activities in space and its implications for individual and collective spatial dynamics. Since 1989, he has published approximately 40 papers in journals, books, and conference proceedings on these topics. He is author (with Shih-Lung Shaw) of the Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications (Oxford University Press) and editor (with Jiawei Han) of Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Taylor and Francis) and Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access (Springer). Harvey serves on the editorial boards of Geographical Analysis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Journal of Regional Science, Transportation and the URISA Journal. He was the North American Editor of International Journal of Geographical Information Science from 2000 to 2004. Harvey was also a Councilor-at-Large of the North American Regional Science Council (2000–2003), a member of the Board of Directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2000–2003), and Chair of the Spatial Analysis and Modeling specialty group of the Association of American Geographers (1998–2000). Harvey is also active in several US National Academies committees, including membership in the National Research Council policy committees addressing ‘Spatial information infrastructure for multimodal transportation systems’ (2001–2003) and ‘Identifying data needs for place-based decision making’ (2000–2002) and the Transportation Research Board committees on Geographic Information Science and Applications (2002–present) and Visualization in Transportation (2003–present). In 2005–2008, he is serving as co-Chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Geographic Information Science and Applications.