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Madison Lore

  • Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Data Analytics

Academic Research Areas

  • Infrastructure planning
  • Land use/spatial planning
  • Social policy
  • Sustainability
  • Transportation planning
  • Data analytics
  • Energy planning
  • Machine learning

Madison Lore is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Analytics, where her research explores the intersection of urban data science, social processes, and sustainable transitions. Her work examines socially responsible uses of large-scale data methods to reveal how environments of information overload can influence public perception and uptake of sustainable behaviors. These core conditions form the basis for research in equitable distribution of resources, institutional influences on behaviors, and individual support for sustainable policies. Madison received her Ph.D. from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. She also holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Infrastructure planning
  • Land use/spatial planning
  • Social policy
  • Sustainability
  • Transportation planning
  • Data analytics
  • Energy planning
  • Machine learning

Publications

  • Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 111, 102131

    Lore, M., Harten, J. G., & Boeing, G. (2024). “A hybrid deep learning method for identifying topics in large-scale urban text data: Benefits and trade-offs.”

  • Transportation Research Part D 131, 104223

    Hosford, K., Yanagawa, C., Lore, M., & Winters, M. (2024). “Effects of Mobi’s equity initiatives on public bike share access and use.”

  • Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

    Lore, M., & Tran, M. (2023). “Learning transportation preferences from online business review language.” Washington, DC.

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • "Deciphering the Language of Big Oil's Role in Climate Action Denial, Delay, and Deception," Climate Social Science Network

    2024

  • Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

    2023–2026

  • Bombardier Sustainable Transportation Fellowship

    2022

  • The Bill and Nancy Siegmann Applied Mathematical Modeling Prize

    2018

  • Leonhard Euler Award for Excellence in Mathematical Modeling

    2016

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Pathways of Support and Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects

    Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, 2024

  • Identifying Large-scale Social Norms in Mode Share through Crowdsource Passive Data

    17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Vienna, Austria, 2024

  • Dynamics of Social Media on Transit Choice

    American Planning Association National Planning Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2023

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