Personal Information

 Professor

Department of  Urban Planning

Architecture and Planning Faculty

Contact Information

Phone: 66620

Email: amurad@kau.edu.sa

Prof. Abdulkader Ali Murad

 Professor

Profile

 

General Supervisor for IT services at  KAU Vice Presidency for Projects, and GIS Professor at Urban and Regional Planning department, Faculty of Environmental Design.


 
 

 

                                  

 
 

 
 
 

 

Education

  • 1998

    Doctorate degree from Town and Country PlanningEnvironmental Sciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, نيوكاسل, بريطانيا

Employment

Research Interests

 

List of Research

 

Murad, A. A, & Tomov,  D, Applications of the geographical information systems in health planning scientometric and geomatic aspects , Pensee Journal, Vol. 75, Issue. 9, 2013, 293-311

Murad, A. A, & Tomov,  D, Institutionalization and internationalization of research on the applications of the geographical information systems in health planning, Scientometrics , Volume 91, Issue 1, 2012, 143-158

Murad, A. A , Benchmarking the location of health centers at Jeddah city: A GIS

Approach, Benchmarking: an International Journal, Vol. 19 No.1, 2012,.93 - 108

Murad, A. A , Using GIS for evaluation retail centers accessibility in Jeddah City, American journal of scientific research, Vol.68,, No1, 2012, 95- 110

Murad, A. A. , Creating a Geographical Information Systems-based Spatial Profile for Exploring Health Services Supply and Demand, American Journal of Applied Sciences 8 (6): 2011, 644-651

Murad, A. A. Using customers data for defining retail market size: a GIS approach.- International Journal of Business Information Systems, Vol. 4, 2009, No 3, 340- 359.

Murad, A. A. , Using customers data for defining retail market size: a GIS approach,  Int. J. Business Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2009, 340-359

Murad, A. A. Creating GIS applications for outpatient health care and hospital planning in Saudi Arabia.- Health Economics and Management (Varna), 9, 2009, No 1, 13-18 (in Bulgarian).

Murad, A. A. Creating a GIS application for defining retail catchment area at Jeddah City.- International Journal of  Services Technology and Management, 9, 2008, No. 1, 79-92.

Murad, A. A. Defining health catchment areas in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia: an example demonstrating the utility of geographical information systems.- Geospatial Health, 2, 2008, No 2, 151-160.

Murad, A. A. Creating a GIS-based epidemiological application for Jeddah City. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 9, 2008, No 5-6, 540-551.

Murad, A. A. Using GIS for marketing health services in Jeddah city.- In: Firms and Markets in Bulgaria under the Conditions of European Integration - an On-going Adaptation. Jubilee Scientific and Practical Conference. Varna, University of Economics of Varna, 15-16.V.2008. Proceedings, 2008, Vol. 1, 221-228.

Murad, A. A., D. T. Tomov. Comparative scientometric indicators: the case of applications of geographic information systems and remote sensing in public health.- In: Excellence and Emergence. A New Challenge for the Combination of Quantitative and Qualitative Aproaches. 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators. Book of abstracts, 2008, 504-506.

Murad, A. A. Creating a GIS application for health services at Jeddah city.- Computers in Biology and Medicine, 37, 2007, No 6, 879-889 (Impact factor = 1.170).

Murad, A. A. Using GIS for retail planning in Jeddah city.- American Journal of Applied Sciences, 10, 2007, 821-827.

Murad, A. A. A GIS application for modeling accessibility to health care centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.- In: GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia Pacific Regions. Lai, P.C., Mak, S.H., eds. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2007, 57-70.

Tomov, D. T., A. A. Murad. International communication patterns in an emerging interdisciplinary field - applications of geographic information systems in public health.- In: 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Proceedings of ISSI 2007. Torres-Sallinas and H. F. Moed, editors. Madrid, CSIC, 2007, Vol. II, 938-939.

Murad, A., E. Moutafova, T. Kostadinova, D. Tomov. Application of geographic information systems in the planning of public health, education, and tourism.- In: Economics, Investments, European Union. Proceedings of a Scientific Conference with International Participation. Varna, University of Economics of Varna, 2006, 67-75.

Murad, A. A. Using GIS for planning  public general hospitals at Jeddah City.- Journal of King Abdulaziz University - Environmental Design Sciences, 3, 2005, 3-22.

Murad, A. A.  Using geographical information systems for exploring demand on retail centers at Jeddah city.- In: International Conference - Services Systems and Services Management. Proceedings of ICSSSM ’05. Vol. 2, 2005, 1523-1527.

Murad, A. Creating a GIS application for local health care planning in Saudi Arabia.- International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 14, 2004, No 3, 185-189 (Impact factor = 0,341).

Murad, A. Using GIS for predicting demand on retail centers at Jeddah City.- Journal of Engineering Sciences of Assiut University, 32, 2004, No 2, 1005-1016.

Murad, A. Creating a GIS application for retail centers in Jeddah city.- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation & Geoinformation, 4, 2003, No 4, 329-338

 

 

 

Scientific interests

Courses

Spatial Information Systems 313 URP
Planning & Land Information Systems 314 URP

Areas of expertise

GIS