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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 The latest version of {stats19} is here!

This #rstats package for road collision data now includes:

✨ 2024 data downloads (finally)
👥 A new package author (Blaise Kelly)
📃 Docs reproducing DfT data

Instantly analyse 9 million+ collision records 🚀

Details: docs.ropensci.org/stats19/news...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 1d

A typology of roads in Great Britain. Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 8d

Updates are underway in the {stats19} #rstats package, the quickest way to access large, high-quality collision datasets with geographical location and dozens of other variables at collision, vehicle, and casualty levels: new contributor (Blaise 🔥) + new data almost ready to launch 🚀

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 21d

It's day 2 of the Data Science for Transport Planning course here at Leeds. We'll be covering spatio-temporal data analysis, multi-modal routing, route network analysis, and how to go from data science results to a web application. Watch this space for #OpenAccess materials!

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 21d

If you want to understand origin-destination data, visualisation is key. The {flowmapblue} package provides functions for creating interactive maps showing bidirectional flows. Just-discovered bonus: you can add time filters to see the 'pulse' of a city: ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddat...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 22d

Very much enjoying the presentation by ITS colleague Yuanxuan Yang on origin-destionation data, including ways of collecting it and various uses. The most important data structure in transport planning? It's hard to beat but under-appreciated! Learn how to use OD data upcoming courses 🚀

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 22d

It's the first day of the new Data Science for Transport Planning course and I'm stoked to be delivering it with such an amazing team, including my colleagues Juan Fonseca-Zamora and Yuanxuan Yang. Welcome everyone arriving at the Institute for Transport Studies in #Leeds for the course today 🚀

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 23d

I've long been interested in ways to reduce barriers-to-entry for people wanting to get started with #DataScience for their work. Happy to share recent successes using 'devcontainers' and 'codespaces' on #GitHub. Interested? Try it here and let us know how you get on! codespaces.new/tdscience/ds...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 23d

In preparation for the Data Science for Transport Planning (DSTP) course I'm teaching this week, I've updated the geocompx docker images to make them smaller, faster, and more flexible. Happy with the results: a portable multilingual environment for reproducible (transport) #DataScience

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Geocomputation with Python #opensource book project just got an upgrade, with Python 3.12 now the default in the devcontainer.

You can launch a full dev environment directly from your browser with GitHub Codespaces. Give it a try here: github.com/codespaces/n...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Sep 7

There are many integrated development environments for data science but which one to choose? For the upcoming EIT Mobility summer school in Lisbon next week I've put together a table of features comparing them. Interested to hear what people use for your #datascience needs #eitmobility.

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very happy with this: I'm delivering a workshop as part of the Road Safety on 5 Continents conference #RS5C. Can confirm: entire 'RRSRR' textbook is reproduced from itsleeds/tds 'devcontainer' environment I set-up for the course 🚀 If you want to get involved, watch this space for courses + content!

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Sep 1

Does anyone have experience developing inside browser-based instances of VS Code or derivatives such as the Positron integrated development environment by #Posit? It seems to work well but some shortcuts that would work locally, like Ctrl+PgDn behave different locally. Impressed! #DataScience

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Aug 30

Updated content for my Reproducible Road Safety Research workshop! 🚗💻 We've refreshed the #rstats materials from 2020 on GitHub and would love your feedback. Take a look and help us improve it for next week's workshop! #DataScience #OpenAccess
github.com/itsleeds/tds...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Aug 22

2-day Data Science for Transport Planning course is approaching. Want to build your #DataScience skills and apply them for academic research (~50% discount for students) or professional development? This could be ideal for you! See details here: itsleeds.github.io/tds/dstp.html

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Aug 21

New #rstats package for clustering and aggregating origin-destination data just dropped. For more on {flowcluster} and to get involved in the conversation, see Hussein's LinkedIn post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/hussei...

Update: We've developed a simple R package for clustering desire lines (origin-destination flows). The package is designed to group these spatial flows using a distance metric from the literature… | Hussein Mahfouz

Update: We've developed a simple R package for clustering desire lines (origin-destination flows). The package is designed to group these spatial flows using a distance metric from the literature (Tao...

www.linkedin.com

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Aug 13

An intriguing point at the intersection of #geocomputation and #transportplanning: the intricacy of three-dimensional transport networks means that certain paths from point A to point B become MultiLinestrings when converted to two-dimensional formats: www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1229...

CycleStreets » Itinerary #122968651

www.cyclestreets.net

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Aug 8

Animated map of Active Travel Fund investment across England over the last 5 years, using open data and reproducible code. See here for code and download the data, comments/suggestions welcome: github.com/itsleeds/ukt...

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Dr Malcolm Morgan @drmalcolmmorgan.bsky.social · Jan 13

New funded PhD at ITS Leeds: Spatial interaction modelling for future transport demand simulation 📢
phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2171...
Spread the word and get in touch with any questions about this new opportunity with me and Robin Lovelace
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EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award: Spatial interaction modelling for future transport demand simulation

Project opportunity - EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award: Spatial interaction modelling for future transport demand simulation at the University of Leeds

phd.leeds.ac.uk

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Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds @envleeds.bsky.social · Mar 24

Researchers including Professor Robin Lovelace created a tool to find out the impacts of combining public transport and cycling to replace car travel in Lisbon.

Replacing 10% of car journeys would have social, environmental and economic benefits, they found.

environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

New tool shows impacts of combining public transport and cycling

Replacing 10% of car journeys with cycling and public transport shows significant social, environmental and economic benefits, according to a new study.

environment.leeds.ac.uk

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jul 25

Just stumbled upon this insightful Figure 7.16 from "Manual for Streets" (page 89). It shows the correlation between forward visibility, carriageway width, and vehicle speeds (both average & 85th percentile). Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7e00...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's well-known that the rightly popular/ubiquitous version control software Git is good for tracking changes in computer code. But did you know that it's also an outstanding tool for tracking changes in natural language/prose?
Source: github.com/nptscot/netw...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jul 2

Looking forward to the Speed Learning session tomorrow at Active City York, where me and Angus Calder from Sustrans will demo the Network Planning Tool for Scotland (NPT). Excited to show new StreetSpace data layer 🎉 For a taster, see here: www.npt.scot#/streetspace...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jun 20

Delighted to announce: the NPT for Scotland was Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards! 🎉 Funded by Transport Scotland and delivered in collaboration with Sustrans, A/B Street and CycleStreets. Congrats to the team! #TransportPlanning #ActiveTravel

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jun 12

Looking forward to chairing a session on New ways of working for a new generation of transport modellers at Modelling World 2025. There's a great line-up of speakers and lots to discuss www.robinlovelace.net/talk/new-way...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jun 11

Looking forward to teaching the upcoming 2-day course Data Science for Transport Planning at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies. See more and follow the links to get your tickets here itsleeds.github.io/tds/dstp

Data Science for Transport Planning: 2 day course – Transport Data Science

Based on demand, we’re organising a 2-day course teaching modern data science skills for transport planning, focussed on transport planning practitioners. This course will take place on the 18th and…

itsleeds.github.io

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just signed-up to the #UTSG2025 conference in Dublin, 25th-27th June. Looking forward to presenting our work on transport data integration to calculate Level of Service on every road in Scotland. Thanks to colleagues, Transport Scotland + Sustrans. See you there! #NPT #geocompx

NPT Scotland

An interactive map to aid cycle planning in Scotland

npt.scot

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thanks so much Brian, glad you could make it. Looking forward to putting some of those ideas into action, with guidance from you and other doers and builders 🏗️

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · May 13

There's an upcoming in-person talk in ITS Leeds on modelling major change for transport decarbonisation. Specifically, what would happen if 50% of road space was reallocated for active travel? Book a ticket here to out! www.ticketsource.com/institute-fo...

www.ticketsource.com

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · May 13

I'm doing a seminar in St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a week today. Looking forward to it and planning to use the nice weather as an excuse to get on my bike ☀️ 🚲 Anyone tips on Leuchars to St Andrews routes? Can do some ground-truth validation of our Network Planning Tool (NPT) also!

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