Join the forefront of Urban Technology

The Urban Information Lab (UIL) uses emerging information technologies to better understand, measure, plan, and develop our urban environments. Since the lab’s inception in 2013, researchers have used big data to assist analyze different urban planning topics such as transportation planning, land use patterns, and accessibility to healthy food systems. The Urban Info Lab is actively involved with the City of Austin, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the NSF.

Projects

Smart City Planning in Seoul

Tracking Property Ownership…

Fire and Smoke Digital Twin…

Electric Vehicle Adoption…

A scoping review of the ben…

Quantitative Approach to…

Traffic Behavior Recognition…

An empirical analysis of Air…

Learning Contact-based Na…

Understanding the Relationsh…

Longitudinal Social Impacts…

Measuring travel behavior…

Using Open Source Data to Ide…

Housing Price Disparities: A

E-Scooter Incidents Patterns…

Exploring Spatial of E-scooter..

Mapping the intercounty tr…

The Role of Transportation…

Forecasting Traffic Speed …

Predicting and mapping neig…

Cities reshaped by Airbnb…

What Goes Bump in the Night…

Who loses and who wins in…

Estimating E-Scooter Traffic…

Exploring the factors affecting…

Impact of Neighborhood Built …

Temporal Disparities in …

Impacts of COVID-19 on bike…

Evaluating the effects of heat...

Modeling the spatial factors…

Are There Transit Deserts in…

Artificial Intelligence & Smart…

Land value impacts of Airbnb…

Integrating social equity in hi…

Longitudinal Social Impacts…

Modeling factors contributing…

Dockless E-scooter usage …

Measuring Social Vulnerability…

The Geography and Equity of …

E-scooter travels and daily…

Bike-sharing rental and retur…

Is a Smart City Framework …

Relationship between socio…

Identifying Hospital Deserts in…

DownScaleBench for develop…

The impact of COVID-19 on ho…

Durations of Dockless E-Scoo…

Disparities in the Impacts of…

Toward Equitable Micromobility…

From shared micro-mobility…

Bike-Sharing Station Usage…

Shared mobility and transit…

Single-family Housing & Gre…

Air Quality Status in Chicago…

Effects of urban environmental..

Washington State School …

Housing market price mov…

Planning Support for Smart…

Understanding the Impact of …

Rental Housing Spot Markets…

Prediction of “L” Train’s Daily…

Measuring accessibility to gro…

The impact of street charact…

Identifying transit deserts for …

Identifying spatiotemporal …

Relationships between Public...

Hourly Associations between…

The impact of peer-to-peer…

Testing the Capability of AI…

Exploring the Spatial Distribution…

Hurricane Harvey equal oppo…

Exploring the association be…

Look to my Lead How Does a…

Socio-economic Factors …

An Open-Source Framework…

Understanding the Shared E…

We’re Hiring!

If you’re interested in working within the Urban Information Lab, feel free to send your Resume/CV to saleh.afroogh@utexas.edu.

PostDoc Position Open!

The Urban Information Lab is currently seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join our lab. The priority deadline is 11:59 pm, June 20, 2024, and the expected start date is August 1, 2024. Click here for more information.

Graduate Research Assistant Position Open!

The Urban Information Lab is currently seeking a graduate research assistant to join our lab. The deadline is rolling, and the expected start date is Summer 2024 or Fall 2024. Click here for more information.