Civil Engineering School

H ctor Antonio P ez Robles Mart nez

Birthday: August 17, 1970

Nationality: Mexican

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Marital status: Married

Education:

Ph.D. (September 2000) Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.

Thesis: Applied Statistical Analysis of Geographically Detailed Data with Emphasis on

Spatial Effects.

Master of Information Science (September 1997) Graduate School of Information Science,

Tohoku University, Japan.

Thesis: Evaluation of Environmental Changes Caused by Urbanization.

B.Sc. Civil Engineering (December 1993) Instituto Tecnol gico y de Estudios Superiores de

Monterrey, Mexico, with honors.

Experience:

Instructor (January 1993-December 1993) Laboratory of Topographical Surveying, Dept. of

Civil Engineering. Instituto Tecnol gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.

survey projects in Nuevo Leon, Mexico sponsored by various Municipal Public Works

Departments (Monterrey, Guadalupe, Santa Catarina), and by Mercedes-Benz. These projects

involved in-field data collection and computer aided design. Construction site supervision.

Research Fellow Lecturer (October 2000-March 2002) Center for Northeast Asian Studies,

Tohoku University, Japan.

Assistant Professor (July 2002 ~) School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University,

Canada.

Fields of interest:

Spatial data analysis and statistics; geographic information systems; transportation modeling;

land use-transport interactions; urban planning.

Languages:

Spanish (native speaker); English (100%); Japanese (Fluent 2nd. Level in the Proficiency

Test administered by the Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of Japan)

Conference presentations and proceedings:

1. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1997) Modeling Land Uses and Environmental

Indicators, paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Chapter, Japanese

Society of Civil Engineering.

2. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1998) Analysis of Urbanization Related Environmental

Impacts from their Spatial Perspective, paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the

Tohoku Chapter, Japanese Society of Civil Engineering.

3. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2000) Spatial External Economies and Coordinated

Land Use-Transportation Planning, paper presented in CODATU IX: Urban

Transportation and Environment, Mexico City, April 11 14.

4. P ez A, Miyamoto K (2001) International Large Scale Network Accessibility and GIS,

paper presented in the Symposium Asia GIS 2001, Tokyo, Japan, June 20 22.

5. P ez A, Suthanaya P, Black J (2001) A spatial analysis of transportation mode-specific

journey-to-work commuting preferences: implications for sustainable transport policies,

paper presented in the World Conference for Transport Research (WCTR), Seoul, Korea,

July 22 27.

6. Black J, P ez A, Suthanaya P (2001) Spatial Targets for Sustainable Transport: Some

Examples from International Practice, paper presented in the seminar SMART Targets

for Sustainable Transport, Sydney, Australia, September 4.

7. Kawai K, Vichiensan V, P ez A, Miyamoto K (2002), Interpolation for Spatial Data in

Urban Models based on Geographically Weighted Regression and Kriging, Proceedings of

the 57th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 4 (forthcoming)

Refereed publications:

1. Miyamoto K, Sugiki N, Uchida T, P ez A (1997) A GIS Based Land-use Model Dealing

with Building Types by Small Unit of Land in a Metropolitan Area, Journal of the Eastern

Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 2 (6) 413 - 429

2. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1998) Urbanization and the Urban Heat Island Effect

from a Spatial Descriptive Approach, Papers of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese

Institute of City Planning, 67-72

3. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (1999) A Spatial Analysis of External Economies and its

Association with Transportation Infrastructure: The Case of Sendai City, Journal of the

Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 3 (4) 149-164

4. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2001) Spatial Association and Heterogeneity Issues in

Land Price Models, Urban Studies, 38 (9) 1493-1508

5. P ez A, Miyamoto K, Yamada E, Kitazume K (2001) Transportation Network and

Accessibility Analysis in Eastern Asia based on a Geographical Information System,

Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 4 (6) 211-225

6. P ez A, Suzuki J (2001) Transportation Impacts on Land Use Change: an Assessment

Considering Neighborhood Effects, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation

Studies, 4 (6) 47-59

7. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2002a) A general framework for estimation and inference

of geographically weighted regression models: 1. Location-specific kernel bandwidths and

a test for locational heterogeneity, Environment and Planning A, 34 (4) 733-754

8. P ez A, Uchida T, Miyamoto K (2002b) A general framework for estimation and

inference of geographically weighted regression models: 2. Spatial association and model

specification tests, Environment and Planning A, 34 (5) 883-904

9. Black J, P ez A, Suthanaya P, 2002, Sustainable Urban Transportation: Performance

Indicators and Some Analytical Approaches, Journal of Urban Planning and Development

(forthcoming)

Chapters in books and other writing:

1. Kazuaki M, P ez A (2001) Urban and community planning. Forthcoming in the

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems edited by UNESCO [http://www.eolss.com/]

Thesis supervision (M.Sc.):

1. Kenji Kawai (Tohoku University; in progress) Interpolation of Spatial Data in Urban

Models based on Geographically Weighted Regression and Kriging (with Kazuaki

Miyamoto).

2. Eri Yamada (Tohoku University; March 2001) Accessibility Analysis of Transportation

Networks in Eastern Asia (with Kazuaki Miyamoto).

Working papers:

1. Spatial Characteristics of the Journey-to-Work Commute Preference: Sidney, 1961-1996.

With Putu Suthanaya and John Black.

2. Anisotropic kernel functions in geographically weighted regression models.

3. Spatially weighted regression: space and nonstationarity in multiple contexts.

4. Nonstationarity in regression-based spatial interpolation models. With Kenji Kawai,

Varameth Vichiensan and Kazuaki Miyamoto.

Memberships:

Japanese City Planning Institute

Japanese Society of Civil Engineering

Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

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