Harvey Miller

Harvey Miller
Harvey Miller, the Bob and Mary Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science and Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University, is the 2015 recipient of the UCGIS Research Award for his significant achievements related to space-time GIScience.  He broke new ground with his 1991 paper on “Modeling accessibility using space-time prism concepts within geographical information systems” (International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 5, 287-301), one of the very first papers to link time geography with GIScience. It not only launched the contemporary era of analytical time geography, but also laid a solid theoretical and methodological foundation for space-time GIScience, and is still one of the most cited papers in GIScience.

 
In his many dozens of refereed journal articles, book chapters/proceeding articles, and books, Professor Miller and his students have continued the development of space-time GIScience and analytical time geography that continues to have a global impact. He linked space-time accessibility, economic theory and GIScience, developing a set of rigorous space-time accessibility measures and algorithms within transportation networks. He also developed a general, analytical theory for time geography, and computational methods for calculating space-time prisms in any dimensional space. Dr. Miller was the lead author of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications (with S.-L. Shaw, 2001, New York: Oxford University Press). This canonical text defined the field of GIS-T, and remains a leading text for this interdisciplinary field. His creative mixture of cutting-edge space-time GIScience, applied to a wide range of substantive questions in transportation and mobility studies, has been truly unique.