A Good System for Smart Cities

Publications

Bissiri, Anthony, Jiao, Junfeng, and Chen, Yefu. 2022. “A scoping review of the benefits of face mask use on pedestrian and bicyclist exposure to air pollutants.” Journal of Transport & Health 26 :101484 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101484

Chen, Yefu and Jiao, Junfeng. 2022. “Are There Transit Deserts in Europe? A Study Focusing on Four European Cases through Publicly Available Data.” Sustainability 14 (20) :13182 https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013182

Chen, Yefu, Jiao, Junfeng, and Farahi, Arya. 2023. “Disparities in affecting factors of housing price: A machine learning approach to the effects of housing status, public transit, and density factors on single-family housing price.” Cities 140 :104432 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104432

Choi, Seung Jun and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “Developing a transit desert interactive dashboard: Supervised modeling for forecasting transit deserts.” PLOS ONE 19 (7) :e0306782 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306782

Choi, Seung Jun and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “Measurement of Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Using Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning.” Applied Sciences 14 (5) :1826 https://doi.org/10.3390/app14051826

Choi, Seung Jun, Jiao, Junfeng, Lee, Hye Kyung, and Farahi, Arya. 2023. “Combatting the mismatch: Modeling bike-sharing rental and return machine learning classification forecast in Seoul, South Korea.” Journal of Transport Geography 109 :103587 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103587

Farahi, Arya and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “Analyzing racial disparities in the United States homeownership: A socio-demographic study using machine learning.” Cities 152 :105181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105181

Farahi, Arya, Ting, Angela, and Ma, Yingchen. 2023. “Measuring and Mitigating Group Inequalities In Resource Allocation.” ACM Journal on Responsible Computing :3632122 https://doi.org/10.1145/3632122

Jiao, Junfeng and Chang, Ahyoung. 2025. “Evaluating sentiment and spatial patterns of EV charging station user experience with AI-agents.” International Journal of Urban Sciences :1-29 https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2025.2547792

Jiao, Junfeng and Wang, H.. 2023. “Forecasting Traffic Speed During Daytime from Google Street View Images using Deep Learning..” Transportation Research Record

Jiao, Junfeng, Afroogh, Saleh, Chen, Kevin, Atkinson, David, and Dhurandhar, Amit. 2025. “The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs.” Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02124-6

Jiao, Junfeng, Choi, Seung Jun, Wang, Huihai, and Farahi, Arya. 2023. “Evaluating Air Quality Status in Chicago: Application of Street View Imagery and Urban Climate Sensors.” Environmental Modeling & Assessment https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-023-09894-1

Jiao, Junfeng, Hansen, Kent, and Azimian, Amin. 2023. “Disparities in the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Transit Ridership in Austin, Texas, U.S.A.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2677 (4) :287-297 https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231159906

Jiao, Junfeng, Lee, Hye Kyung, and Choi, Seung Jun. 2022. “Impacts of COVID-19 on bike-sharing usages in Seoul, South Korea.” Cities 130 :103849 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103849

Jiao, Junfeng, Seong, Kijin, Sammer, Marcus, Lewis, Ryan Hardesty, Reese, Alison, Olvera, Norma, Gronseth, Susie L., Anderson-Fletcher, Elizabeth, and Kakadiaris, Ioannis. 2025. “Developing a healthy food access index (HFAI): Web-based mapping and future directions for AI integrations.” Cities 161 :105908 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105908

Jiao, Junfeng, Wu, Xiaohan, Chen, Yefu, and Farahi, Arya. 2022. “Comparing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Residential Rental Market Across Rental Sectors: Evidence from City of Austin.” SSRN Electronic Journal https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4270016

Jiao, Junfeng, Wu, Xiaohan, Chen, Yefu, and Farahi, Arya. 2023. “How the single-family residence housing market capitalizes green property upgraded features: evidence from city of Austin.” International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-07-2023-0095

Lewis, Ryan Hardesty, Jiao, Junfeng, Seong, Kijin, Farahi, Arya, Navrátil, Paul, Casebeer, Nate, and Niyogi, Dev. 2024. “Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 110 :102093 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102093

Mai, Gengchen, Xie, Yiqun, Jia, Xiaowei, Lao, Ni, Rao, Jinmeng, Zhu, Qing, Liu, Zeping, Chiang, Yao-Yi, and Jiao, Junfeng. 2025. “Towards the next generation of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence.” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 136 :104368 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104368

Mandalapu, Akhil, Jiao, Junfeng, and Azimian, Amin. 2022. “Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Air Pollutants and COVID-19 Death Rate: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California.” International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research 9 (1) https://dc.uwm.edu/ijger/vol9/iss1/4

Mandalapu, Akhil, Seong, Kijin, and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “Evaluating urban fire vulnerability and accessibility to fire stations and hospitals in Austin, Texas.” PLOS Climate 3 (7) :e0000448 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000448

Pan, Haozhi, Geertman, Stan, Deal, Brian, Jiao, Jungfeng, and Wang, Bo. 2022. “Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era.” Journal of Urban Technology 29 (2) :1-5 https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2022.2069938

Phillips, Connor and Jiao, Junfeng. 2023. “Artificial Intelligence & Smart City Ethics: A Systematic Review.” :01-05 https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154961

Phillips, Connor, Jiao, Junfeng, and Clubb, Emmalee. 2024. “Testing the Capability of AI Art Tools for Urban Design.” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications :1-8 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2024.3356169

Sammer, Marcus, Seong, Kijin, Olvera, Norma, Gronseth, Susie L., Anderson-Fletcher, Elizabeth, Jiao, Junfeng, Reese, Alison, and Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.. 2024. “AI-FEED: Prototyping an AI-Powered Platform for the Food Charity Ecosystem.” International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 17 (1) :259 https://doi.org/10.1007/s44196-024-00656-9

Seong, Kijin and Jiao, Junfeng. 2023. “Is a Smart City Framework the Key to Disaster Resilience? A Systematic Review.” Journal of Planning Literature :08854122231199462 https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122231199462

Seong, Kijin, Choi, Seung Jun, and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “IoT sensors as a tool for assessing spatiotemporal risk to extreme heat.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management :1-23 https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2024.2320257

Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, and Mandalapu, Akhil. 2023. “Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time.” Applied Geography 155 :102956 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102956

Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, and Mandalapu, Akhil. 2022. “Evaluating the effects of heat vulnerability on heat-related emergency medical service incidents: Lessons from Austin, Texas.” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science :239980832211296 https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221129618

Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, and Mandalapu, Akhil. 2023. “Hourly Associations between Heat Index and Heat-Related Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Calls in Austin-Travis County, Texas.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (19) :6853 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196853

Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, Lewis, Ryan Hardesty, Farahi, Arya, Navrátil, Paul, Casebeer, Nate, Davis, Braniff, Jones, Justice, and Niyogi, Dev. 2025. “Towards a digital twin for smart resilient cities: real-time fire and smoke tracking and prediction platform for community awareness (FireCom).” Computational Urban Science 5 (1) :49 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-025-00212-x

Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, Mandalapu, Akhil, and Niyogi, Dev. 2024. “Spatio-temporal patterns of heat index and heat-related Emergency Medical Services (EMS).” Sustainable Cities and Society 111 :105562 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105562

Singh, Manmeet, Acharya, Nachiketa, Jamshidi, Sajad, Jiao, Junfeng, Yang, Zong-Liang, Coudert, Marc, Baumer, Zach, and Niyogi, Dev. 2023. “DownScaleBench for developing and applying a deep learning based urban climate downscaling- first results for high-resolution urban precipitation climatology over Austin, Texas.” Computational Urban Science 3 (1) :22 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00096-9

Toscan, Paloma Carollo, Seong, Kijin, Jiao, Junfeng, Nuno Borges Pereira, Eduardo, and Leandro Silva Oliveria, Marcos. 2025. “Advancing Urban Climate Analysis with Remote Sensing: Evaluating the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions on Surface Temperatures in Guimarães, Portugal.” https://sciforum.net/paper/view/21615

Xu, Yiming, Jiao, Junfeng, and Wang, Huihai. 2025. “An Urban Digital Twin Framework for Sustainable Transportation and Smart Citties: A Case Study of Austin, TX.” https://utexas.box.com/s/0stiaup74dkc0t5tcze0lbk44dabehyn

Yang, Hyunje, Lee, Jun-Whan, Klepac, Steven, Santos Cruz, Armando Ulises, Subgranon, Arthriya, and Jiao, Junfeng. 2024. “Reconstructing missing data of damaged buildings from post-hurricane reconnaissance data using XGBoost.” Frontiers in Built Environment 10 :1444001 https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2024.1444001