Dr. Enrico Steiger

Research Interests

• Spatial Data mining, Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning
• Spatial Databases, Open source GIS & Web Services
• Routing & Mobility, Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
• OpenStreetMap and free geodata (VGI), Location-based social networks (LBSN)

Current projects

• OpenRouteService (ORS)
• Derivation of an OSM graph with TMC LCL information to provide real time traffic services in collaboration with Straßen NRW and the German federal road agency (BAST)
• Spatiotemporal Crowd Analysis and adaptive Routing based on OSM
• Explorative spatiotemporal human mobility analysis from user-generated data (LBSN)
• OpenTrafficFlow (OTF)

Curriculum vitae

• 01/2016 - 08/2016: PostDoc researcher at GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University
• 08/2013–12/2013: Research Stay Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Civic Design Data Lab (CDDL) Boston, USA
• 01/2013-12/2015: PhD student in the GIScience Research Group, University of Heidelberg
• since 01/2011: Lecturer of UNIGIS Master Module Developing Applications with OSM at Centre of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg
• 01/2011–12/2012: Project Manager/Consultant Applied Geoinformatics and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Traffic Consultants GmbH Salzburg, Austria
• 10/2005–12/2010: Study of geography and applied geoinformatics, University of Leipzig

Scientific Reviewing

• International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
• Transactions in GIS (TGIS)
• Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS)

Publications

• Westerholt, R., Steiger, E., Resch, B. and Zipf, A. (accepted) Abundant Topological Outliers in Social Media Data and Their Effect on Spatial Analysis. PLOS ONE, volume and issue pending, pp. pending.
• Hahmann, S., A. Zipf, A. Rousell, A. Mobasheri, M. Rylov, Steiger,E. Loos,L. Lauer,J. (2016): GIS-Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der barrierefreien Routenplanung aus dem Projekt CAP4Access. AGIT 2016. Salzburg, Austria.
• Steiger, E., Rylov, M., Zipf, A.(2016): Echtzeitverkehrslage basierend auf OSM Daten im OpenRouteService. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2016. Berlin
• Lee, M., Steiger, E. Zipf, A.(2016): Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps. 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki, Finnland.
• Steiger, E., Resch, B. and Zipf, A. (2015) Exploration of spatiotemporal and semantic Clusters of Twitter data using unsupervised neural networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), volume and issue pending. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2015.1099658
• Steiger, E. Westerholt, R., Resch, B. and Zipf, A.(2015): Twitter as an indicator for whereabouts of people? Correlating Twitter with UK census data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS), 45, pp. 255–265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.09.007
• Steiger, E. de Albuquerque, J. P. Zipf, A.(2015): An advanced systematic literature review on spatiotemporal analyses of Twitter data. Transactions in GIS. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12132
• Steiger, E. Ellersiek, T. Resch, B. Zipf, A.(2015): Uncovering latent mobility patterns from Twitter during mass events. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): full paper GI_Forum - Journal for Geographic Information Science, 1-2015, pp. 525-534.
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• Steiger, E. Westerholt, R. Zipf, A. (2015): Research on social media feeds – A GIScience perspective. In: C. Capineri et al., (eds.) European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information, Ubiquity Press.
• Assis, L. F. Herfort, B. Steiger, E. F. Horita, de Albuquerque, J. P.(2015): Geographical prioritization of social network messages in near real-time using sensor data streams: an application to floods. GEOINFO 2015 - 16th Brazilian Symposium on Geoinfromatics.
• Assis, L. F. Horita, F. Herfort, B. Steiger, E. de Albuquerque, J. P.(2015): A geographical approach for on-the-fly prioritizing social-media messages for flood risk management based on sensor data. Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (CSBC2015/ BraSNAM)
• Steiger, E. Zipf, A.(2015): Enriching OSM road networks with TMC LCL information. RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge. 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lisbon, Portugal.
• Steiger, E. Zipf, A.(2015): Derivation of an OSM graph with TMC LCL traffic information to provide real time traffic services. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2015. Berlin
• Steiger, E. Ellersiek, T. Zipf, A. (2014): Explorative public transport flow analysis from uncertain social media data. Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information (GEOCROWD) 2014. In conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014. Dallas, TX, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2676440.2676444
• Steiger, E. Lauer, J. Ellersiek, T. Zipf, A. (2014): Towards a framework for automatic geographic feature extraction from Twitter Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science Vienna.
• Bernhard, R. Steiger, E. Kollarits, S. Votzi, P. Krampe, S. (2012): Implementation of traffic effect estimations for intermodal dynamic routing services on VIELMOBIL - an ITS-platform for the RheinMain region. ITS World Congress 2012. Vienna
• Steiger, E. Jank, R. Krampe, S. (2012): DynamicTrafficBox (DTB) - Dynamisches Verkehrsmanagement auf Basis einer integrierten Verkehrsdatenplattform In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2012. Berlin
• Rehrl, K-, Schön, S., Steinmann,R., Friesenecker, M., Hackl,R. und Steiger, E. (2012): OpenTravelTimeMap – Ideen und Konzept für eine freie Reisedatensammlung. Salzburg
• Brugger, P. Herbst, S. Lenz, P. Steiger, E. Krampe, S. Prinz, T. (2012): PublicTransportScreener - Praxisorientierte Planungstools zur Bewertung der ÖV-Angebotsqualität In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2012. Berlin
• Steiger, E. Krampe, S. (2011): Verkehrslage 2.0 – eine Weiterentwicklung des OpenStreetMap-Projektes? In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2011. Berlin
• Eitinger, S. Rehrl, K. Steinmann,R. Weber, M. Steiger,E. Krampe,S. Schmidt,M. (2011): Augmented Reality, sprachbasierte Navigation und digitale Karte – Fußgängernavigation unter Verwendung von OpenStreetMap. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2011. Berlin
• Rehrl,K. Hackl,R. Krampe,S. Steiger, E. (2011): Erkennung von raum-zeitlichen Bewegungsmustern aus GPS-Trajektorien. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2011

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