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Martino Tran
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Latest papers
Spatial and social inequities in access to essential healthcare services: a case study of a fast-growing, diverse Canadian city.
Health & place · 2026
Monitoring the well-being of vulnerable transit riders using machine learning based sentiment analysis and social media: Lessons from COVID-19.
Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science · 2023 · first author
Assessing Trade-Offs and Optimal Ranges of Density for Life Expectancy and 12 Causes of Mortality in Metro Vancouver, Canada, 1990-2016.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
Latest funding
- $998,600
Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $10,000
Training for Healthy INterdisciplinary Knowledge in Cities (THINK-Cities) Research Training Platform
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $480,000
Computational Urban Science and Planning
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Spatial and social inequities in access to essential healthcare services: a case study of a fast-growing, diverse Canadian city.
Tiwana A, Tran M, Draeger C, Mumford B
Monitoring the well-being of vulnerable transit riders using machine learning based sentiment analysis and social media: Lessons from COVID-19.
Tran M, Draeger C, Wang X, Nikbakht A
Assessing Trade-Offs and Optimal Ranges of Density for Life Expectancy and 12 Causes of Mortality in Metro Vancouver, Canada, 1990-2016.
Yu J, Gustafson P, Tran M, Brauer M
A spatiotemporal analysis of inequalities in life expectancy and 20 causes of mortality in sub-neighbourhoods of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1990-2016.
Yu J, Dwyer-Lindgren L, Bennett J, Ezzati M, Gustafson P, Tran M, Brauer M
Geospatial indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to assess neighbourhood variation in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards.
Yu J, Castellani K, Forysinski K, Gustafson P, Lu J, Peterson E, Tran M, Yao A, Zhao J, Brauer M
Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy
Keywords: transportation; justice; equity; mobility; technology; accessibility; policy; guidelines
Training for Healthy INterdisciplinary Knowledge in Cities (THINK-Cities) Research Training Platform
Principal investigators: Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Brauer, Michael; Cloutier, Marie-Soleil; Hatzopoulou, Marianne
Keywords: Capacity-Building; Equity; Healthy Cities; Training
Computational Urban Science and Planning
Principal investigators: Tran, Martino
Keywords: urban transport; data science; computational modelling; planning
Computational Urban Science and Planning
Principal investigators: Tran, Martino
Managing future risk and interdependency in urban systems
Principal investigators: Tran, Martino
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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