class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Open Access Transport Models ## 📉🚂🚅🚎🛴🚲🚶📈<br/>From collaborative code to citizen science ### Robin Lovelace ### University of Leeds, <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport">Institute for Transport Studies</a> ### TRB, 2021-01-21 (updated: 2021-07-01) Reproducible source code: <a href="https://github.com/Robinlovelace/presentations/blob/master/2021-01-21-open-source-transport-tools.Rmd">github.com/Robinlovelace/presentations</a> --- <!-- WORKSHOP TITLE: Open Science in Transport: Challenges and Opportunities in a COVID-19 Era --> <!-- DATE and TIME: January 21st, 2020 / 2:00PM-5:00PM (EST) / 20:00-23:00 (CET) --> <!-- ORGANISED BY: TRB International Coordinating Council - ICC (A0020C) --> <!-- SPONSORED BY: TRB Committees AED10, AED20, AED70, AJE35, AJE45, AJE70 --> <!-- DESCRIPTION: Open Science (OS) is a modern movement that represents a new approach to practicing science in a way that increases openness, integrity and reproducibility of research. We will discuss challenges and opportunities brought by Open Science in transport research, in particular in the COVID-19 context, and how to achieve a common understanding on the practical impact of Open Science in the transport sector. --> <!-- Timing: --> <!-- Part I – Setting the scene (65 min) 19:00 - 20:05 --> <!-- Break - 20:05 - 20:30 --> <!-- Part II – Some examples of OS in Transport (45mn) 20:30 - 21:45 --> <!-- Data, open access & open innovation --> <!-- 3 to 4 pre-recorded presentations (7 to 10mn) + audience participation with Q/A (10 mn) --> <!-- 1- Transport data --> <!-- ◦ Open data: key challenges for transport data collection and management, Speaker from OECD-ITF (TBC) --> <!-- 2- Transport results in open access --> <!-- ◦ Open access results on the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on transport: a collection of articles, prof. Karst Geurs, University of Twente, The Netherlands, ETRR Editor-in-Chief --> <!-- ◦ Open access transport models: a leverage point in sustainable transport planning, Robin Lovelace, ITS Leeds and WCTRs --> <!-- 3- Open innovation in road and transport research --> <!-- ◦ The case study in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mark Henry Rubarenzya, Head - Research and Development, Directorate of Network Planning and Engineering │Uganda National Roads Authority --> <!-- I'll be 'on' around 21:00 --> ## The problem  Source: ['Inside the black box' report](https://www.co.pierce.wa.us/DocumentCenter/View/755/A-GuideToModeling?bidId=) -- - Transport models were designed to support growth in car ownership and reduce journey times (Boyce and Williams, 2015) -- - 21^st^ Century priorities are very different -- - Climate science, air pollution and health force a shift in focus - The concepts of 'participatory democracy' and 'citizen science' mean there is a need for collaborative solutions -- --- ## The solution **New technologies mean that open access transport models are possible**  Source: A/B Street, free, open source, gamified transport planning software [github.com/dabreegster/abstreet](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/#ab-street) --- ## The paper  - Transport models represent a leverage point in transport systems - New paper, Lovelace et al (2020) describes the emergence and possibilities for 'open access models' --- ## Live demo  --- # Get involved - Support open source solutions indirectly - Sign-up to platforms for sharing and collaborating on open source projects, such as https://github.com/ - Preferentially use, cite and endorse open access and open source solutions - Find the open source tool best suited to your needs and communicate constructively with the developers - Communicate ways to improve open source solutions, e.g. by commenting on 'issue trackers' on forums such as [GitHub](https://github.com/) - Download, install and play with open source software - R/RStudio, great for data analysis but also interactive visualisation and, increasingly, [transport planning workflows](https://docs.ropensci.org/stplanr/) - Have a play with open access transport tools such as [A/B Street](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/#ab-street) and the [PCT](https://www.pct.bike/), which can run on your computer or in the browser --- # References Boyce, D.E., Williams, H.C.W.L., 2015. Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future. Edward Elgar Publishing. Beimborn, E., Kennedy, R., 1996. Inside the Blackbox: Making Transportation Models Work for Livable Communities. Citizens for a Better Environment. Lovelace, R., Parkin, J., Cohen, T., 2020. Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning. Transport Policy 97, 47–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.06.015 --- # Thanks Contact me at r. lovelace at leeds ac dot uk (email), [`@robinlovelace`](https://twitter.com/robinlovelace) -- Check-out links to my work at [robinlovelace.net](https://www.robinlovelace.net/) -- Thanks to everyone building a open and collaborative communities Thanks to the University of Leeds and the Institute for Transport Studies [](https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport)