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Selima Sultana

Selima Sultana,
Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Georgia
Urban Transport Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Dr. Sultana’s research couples the insights of Urban and Transportation Geography with quantitative methodologies and GIS, allowing the use of a wide range of spatial data and scales. Very specifically, she is interested in the travel behavior of individuals and households in their urban environments, focusing on how people negotiate the conflicting demands of household responsibilities and the changing urban setting of their lives. She has investigated the degree to which commuting flows are the result of inefficiencies in matching jobs to housing, in addition to the spatial structure of city, the contemporary processes of urban-economic restructuring and resulting social changes, and the role of dual-earner households in commuting and residential location decisions. The results of her work have already been published in leading geographic journals such as The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, Journal of Transport Geography, and the Southeastern Geographer. Her research has been supported by the University Transportation Center of Alabama, Center for Sustainability at Auburn University, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her ongoing work is examining:

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The influences of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) related changes on society and households, such as simultaneous impacts on (and interrelationships between) travel behavior and urban spatial structure.
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 Extending work on commuting to examine the effects of low density urban development in public school transportation and the resulting impacts on household travel patterns and children’s time budget.
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Examining changed household commuting patterns due to urban sprawl, and particularly the relationships between sprawl and jobs/housing balance and spatial mismatch issues.
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Exploring the level of accessibility of Greensboro residents to various activity places (e.g., jobs and shopping centers) by bike lanes, and determining how accessibility varies according to neighborhood structure (e.g., density and mixed-land uses) and population composition (e.g., income and race).

e-mail:s_sultan@uncg.edu
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