Dr Tongxin Chen's Outputs (8)

The impacts of specific place visitations on theft patterns: a case study in Greater London, UK (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, T., Bowers, K., & Cheng, T. (in press). The impacts of specific place visitations on theft patterns: a case study in Greater London, UK. Computational Urban Science, 5(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-025-00191-z

Exploring the impacts of population place visitation on crime patterns is crucial for understanding crime mechanisms and optimising resource allocation in crime prevention. While recent studies have broadly examined dynamic population activities at s... Read More about The impacts of specific place visitations on theft patterns: a case study in Greater London, UK.

Applying Dynamic Human Activity to Disentangle Property Crime Patterns in London during the Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis Using Geo-Tagged Big Data (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, T., Bowers, K., & Cheng, T. (2023). Applying Dynamic Human Activity to Disentangle Property Crime Patterns in London during the Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis Using Geo-Tagged Big Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(12), Article 488. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12120488

This study aimed to evaluate the relationships between different groups of explanatory variables (i.e., dynamic human activity variables, static variables of social disorganisation and crime generators, and combinations of both sets of variables) and... Read More about Applying Dynamic Human Activity to Disentangle Property Crime Patterns in London during the Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis Using Geo-Tagged Big Data.

Revealing the relationship between human mobility and urban deprivation using geo-big data: a case study from London in the post-pandemic era Creators (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, T. (2023, April). Revealing the relationship between human mobility and urban deprivation using geo-big data: a case study from London in the post-pandemic era Creators. Presented at 31st Geographical Information Science Research UK (GISRUK), Glasgow, UK

Investigating the association between human mobility and urban deprivation helps to understand the disparate routines of urban residents with different socioeconomic vulnerabilities. Though lots of research have revealed the difference in the populat... Read More about Revealing the relationship between human mobility and urban deprivation using geo-big data: a case study from London in the post-pandemic era Creators.

Sensing dynamic human activity zones using geo-tagged big data in Greater London, UK during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, T., Zhu, D., Cheng, T., Gao, X., & Chen, H. (2023). Sensing dynamic human activity zones using geo-tagged big data in Greater London, UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 18(1 January), Article e0277913. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277913

Exploration of dynamic human activity gives significant insights into understanding the urban environment and can help to reinforce scientific urban management strategies. Lots of studies are arising regarding the significant human activity changes i... Read More about Sensing dynamic human activity zones using geo-tagged big data in Greater London, UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human mobility variations in response to restriction policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis from the Virus Watch community cohort in England, UK (2022)
Journal Article
Cheng, T., Chen, T., Liu, Y., Aldridge, R. W., Nguyen, V., Hayward, A. C., & Michie, S. (2022). Human mobility variations in response to restriction policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis from the Virus Watch community cohort in England, UK. Frontiers in public health, 10, Article 999521. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.999521

Objective: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, public health and social measures to contain its transmission (e.g., social distancing and lockdowns) have dramatically changed people's lives in rural and urban areas globally. To facilitate future manageme... Read More about Human mobility variations in response to restriction policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis from the Virus Watch community cohort in England, UK.

Spatio-temporal stratified associations between urban human activities and crime patterns: a case study in San Francisco around the COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, T., Bowers, K., Zhu, D., Gao, X., & Cheng, T. (2022). Spatio-temporal stratified associations between urban human activities and crime patterns: a case study in San Francisco around the COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate. Computational Urban Science, 2(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00041-2

Crime changes have been reported as a result of human routine activity shifting due to containment policies, such as stay-at-home (SAH) mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the way in which the manifestation of crime in both space and time... Read More about Spatio-temporal stratified associations between urban human activities and crime patterns: a case study in San Francisco around the COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate.

Urban Crime and Security (2021)
Book Chapter
Cheng, T., & Chen, T. (2021). Urban Crime and Security. In W. Shi, M. F. Goodchild, M. Batty, M.-P. Kwan, & A. Zhang (Eds.), Urban Informatics (213-228). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_14

Scientists have an enduring interest in understanding urban crime and developing security strategies for mitigating this problem. This chapter reviews the progress made in this topic from historic criminology to data-driven policing. It first reviews... Read More about Urban Crime and Security.

Exploring the homogeneity of theft offenders in spatio-temporal crime hotspots (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, T., Bowers, K., Cheng, T., Zhang, Y., & Chen, P. (2020). Exploring the homogeneity of theft offenders in spatio-temporal crime hotspots. Crime Science, 9(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-020-00115-8

Offender homogeneity occurs when the same criminal group is composed of offenders with similar attributes (e.g., socio-economic-demographics). Exploring the homogeneity of offenders within spatio-temporal crime hotspots (STCHs) is useful for understa... Read More about Exploring the homogeneity of theft offenders in spatio-temporal crime hotspots.