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Open source and participatory transportation planning

DERI Seminar, London, Zoom

Robin Lovelace, University of Leeds
Dustin Carlino, Alan Turing Institute
Companion slides: Google Slides

2023-01-26

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Outline plan

1 Introduction to open tools for transport planning

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Outline plan

1 Introduction to open tools for transport planning

2 Case study: A/B Street (Dustin)

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Outline plan

1 Introduction to open tools for transport planning

2 Case study: A/B Street (Dustin)

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1 Introduction to me and my research

Further info: https://www.robinlovelace.net/

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We have 5 research groups

Working with TASM

Links with WYCA

Academic input

Sarah Sharples

Data can make a difference

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Where I am now: PCT used by many in government

Too much data?

A nice problem to have?

Data historically a limiting factor

New approaches needed to tackle 'big noise'

Boyce, D.E., Williams, H.C.W.L., 2015. Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future.

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Too much data?

A nice problem to have?

Data historically a limiting factor

New approaches needed to tackle 'big noise'

Boyce, D.E., Williams, H.C.W.L., 2015. Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future.

Lovelace, Robin, Mark Birkin, Philip Cross, and Martin Clarke. 2016. ‘From Big Noise to Big Data' https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12081.

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  • For most of the history of transport planning data scarcity has been a major concern
  • Now we have an abundance of datasets, many of them incompatible
  • Concrete example: OD to WPZ data in central London (could ask if anyone knows, it's a mess hehe)

Problems worthy of your time

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Problems worthy of your time

Ideas

Hackathons

Active travel

Road safety policy

Post COVID recovery

Levelling up metrics

Nature recovery networks

Citizen science and data literacy

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Existing tools: The Propensity to Cycle Tool

  • Early prototype of the tool developed at Open Data Institute Leeds hackathon, 2015
  • National deployment of the Propensity to Cycle Tool 2 years later (PCT.bike) (Lovelace et al. 2017)

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Key aspects of the PCT

  • Based on open source code
  • Based on open data
  • Results published as open data
  • Publicly available web application encourages participation and evidence-based debate

Open data and accessible results lead to participation. See https://twitter.com/search?q=cyipt.bike%2Frapid

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How it works

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Making evidence meaningful and actionable

Source: https://www.pct.bike/

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The future of transport tools

Modular

Future proof

Scalable

Vector/

Raster/

Source: Morgan and Lovelace (2020) Implementation: stplanr

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The future of transport tools

Modular

Future proof

Scalable

Vector/

Raster/

Source: Morgan and Lovelace (2020) Implementation: stplanr

Approach: OD -> Desire Line -> Route -> Route Networks

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So what's the overall approach here?

Thanks!

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Thanks!

References

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Thanks!

References

Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., Woodcock, J., 2017. The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use 10. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.862

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Thanks!

References

Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., Woodcock, J., 2017. The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use 10. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.862

Morgan, M., Lovelace, R., 2020. Travel flow aggregation: nationally scalable methods for interactive and online visualisation of transport behaviour at the road network level. Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320942779

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Thanks!

References

Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., Woodcock, J., 2017. The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use 10. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.862

Morgan, M., Lovelace, R., 2020. Travel flow aggregation: nationally scalable methods for interactive and online visualisation of transport behaviour at the road network level. Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320942779

Lovelace, R., Tennekes, M., Carlino, D., 2021. ClockBoard: a zoning system for urban analysis. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/vncgw

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Thanks!

References

Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., Woodcock, J., 2017. The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use 10. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.862

Morgan, M., Lovelace, R., 2020. Travel flow aggregation: nationally scalable methods for interactive and online visualisation of transport behaviour at the road network level. Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320942779

Lovelace, R., Tennekes, M., Carlino, D., 2021. ClockBoard: a zoning system for urban analysis. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/vncgw

Lovelace, Robin, Rosa Félix, and Dustin Carlino. “Jittering: A Computationally Efficient Method for Generating Realistic Route Networks from Origin-Destination Data.” OSF Preprints, January 13, 2022. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/qux6g.

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Outline plan

1 Introduction to open tools for transport planning

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