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A global assessment of street-network sprawl by Dr Adam Millard-Ball
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by Dr Zia Wadud, ITS, University of Leeds.
Abstract: Disconnected urban street networks, which I call “street-network sprawl,” are strongly associated with increased vehicle travel, energy use and CO2 emissions. Moreover, since street layouts are essentially permanent, today’s choices on the connectivity of streets will restrict future resilience and lock in car dependence for a century or more. Using data on all 46 million km of mapped streets worldwide and a satellite-derived time series of urbanization, I present the first systematic and globally commensurable measures of street-network sprawl. Latin America, Japan, South Korea, much of Europe and North Africa stand out for their low levels of street-network sprawl, while the highest levels are found in south-east Asia, the United States and the British Isles. Streets in new developments in 90% of the most populous countries have become less connected since 1975, and the same period saw a near doubling in the frequency of a street-network type typical of gated communities. I also identify persistence in street-network sprawl, indicative of path-dependent processes. Specifically, cities and countries with low connectivity in recent years also had relatively low pre-existing connectivity. The lack of comparative, cross-national analysis has been identified as a major research gap in the literature on urban sprawl, and this assessment provide the foundation for future work to understand urban processes, predict future pathways of transportation energy consumption and emissions, and identify effective policy responses.
Bio: My research bridges urban planning and environmental economics, and addresses some of the key challenges in transportation, energy and climate change policy. My current work examines global patterns of urban sprawl and car ownership, the effectiveness of local climate planning efforts, and the design of carbon trading programs. I also have broad interests in transportation planning and policy, particularly parking management programs to reduce vehicle travel and emissions.
Before coming to UC Santa Cruz, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and McGill School of Environment, McGill University. I hold a PhD in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, and was formerly a Principal with transportation planning firm Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates.
Adam Millard-Ball, Associate Professor, University of California-Santa Cruz
5/20/2019 9:55:08 AM
An artificial neural network based method to uncover the Value-of-Travel-Time distribution by Dr Sander van Cranenburgh and Dr Marco Kouwenhoven
This presentation was delivered as part of the Choice Modelling Centre and Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport.
Introduction by Dr Manuel Ojeda Cabral, ITS, Leeds.
Abstract: In this presentation, we propose an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based method to derive the Value-of-Travel-Time (VTT) distribution. This method is highly flexible and complements recently proposed nonparametric methods to calculate the VTT from choice data. The strength of this method is that it is possible to uncover the VTT distribution (and its moments) without making strong assumptions about the shape of the distribution or the error terms, while being able to incorporate covariates and account for panel effects. Therefore, in contrast to other nonparametric methods, the ANN-based method is suitable to derive estimates for the mean VTTs for appraisal. In this presentation, we first show the results from a series of Monte Carlo experiments. Using these, we assess how well the ANN-based method works in terms of being able to recover the true underlying VTT distribution. After having demonstrated that the method works well on Monte Carlo data, we apply our method to data from the 2009 Norwegian VTT study. Finally, we extensively cross-validate the method by comparing it with a series of state-of-the-art discrete choice models and nonparametric methods. Based on the encouraging results we have obtained, we believe that there is a place for ANN-based methods in future VTT studies. Finally, we discuss explore further directions to capitalise these machine learning methods for VTT research, and more generally for choice behaviour analysis.
Sander van Cranenburgh is Assistant Professor in the Transport and Logistics Group of Delft University of Technology. His research focusses on methods for choice behaviour analysis. During his Postdoc he worked on Random Regret Minimization (RRM) based choice models, and made several methodological contributions to this field, including the development of new regret models and efficient design theory for RRM models (which has recently been implemented in Ngene).His current research mainly focusses developing data-driven modelling approaches for choice behaviour analysis. In this research he specifically seeks the edge between theory-driven approaches, such as discrete choice models, and data-driven approaches, such as Artificial Neural Networks.
Marco Kouwenhoven is Research Leader at Significance, an independent research institute specialised in quantitative research on mobility and transport, and a part time Researcher in the Transport and Logistics Group of Delft University of Technology. One of his research fields is stated preference research, and especially to determine the value of travel time, value of travel reliability and value of comfort. He has worked on many stated preference projects, among which the latest value of time studies in the Netherlands and Norway.
Dr Sander van Cranenburgh, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
3/19/2019 1:21:40 PM
Autonomous Operation of Earth-moving Trucks from Drones demonstration at the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event 2017
A drone system to monitor and autonomously direct trucks around obstacles was demonstrated by a team from the University of Leeds as part of the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event that took place on 27 to 28 June at Weetwood Hall, Leeds. The event was part of the UK Robotics Week 2017 and showcased the current state-of-the-art of robotics for infrastructure through a packed programme of talks and demonstrations. The event brought together over 80 academics, industry, policy makers and stakeholders to explore the use of robotics in the creation, inspection, repair and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Here Dr Bilal Kaddouh explains how their drone system works, what inspired it and the value of attending the Robotics Challenge Event.
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8/11/2017 1:16:42 PM
Beyond the traditional- Data Science for official statistics
University of Leeds
2/22/2018 2:59:41 PM
Car availability - new insights into model specification and selection for composite marginal likelihood estimation
Car availability - new insights into model specification and selection for composite marginal likelihood estimation. Presentation by Dr Romain Crastes for the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) Seminar Series: www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/events/seminar-series
Abstract:
This presentation investigates the determinants of car availability in Germany using a unique life course calendar data-set that covers 27 years of data. Modelling car availability over the life course requires to account for spurious state dependence (\emph{i.e.} autocorrelation of the errors). The dimension of integration increases with the number of time periods considered which rules out Maximum Simulated Likelihood (MSL) estimation techniques. An alternative is to use the Composite Marginal Likelihood (CML) inference approach, which replaces high-dimensional integrals by a compounding of bivariate probabilities. The current paper delves into the issue of how to form and select CML functions. Indeed, CML is a flexible tool and different pairs of bivariate margins can be used, leading to different results. The typical approach consists in using the pairing combinations of temporally close choice situations. In this paper, we suggest instead to use randomly selected pairs for each individual. We estimate a series of autoregressive random effects ordered probit models built from both close and random pairs and compare the results obtained using various goodness-of-fit indicators. Our results suggest that random pairs provide better fit and are computationally much less burdensome. These promising results also allow us to unravel the important role played by spurious state dependence in car availability across the life course.
Delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) Seminar Series: www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/events/seminar-series
Institute for Transport Studies
11/20/2017 1:38:56 PM
Developing Interdisciplinary Research into Practice for the Resolution of Transport Inequalities in Global South Cities by Prof Karen Lucas
This seminar was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies research seminar series.
The presentation describes the networking activities and key findings of a GCRF sponsored project, which purposefully draws together academics, policymakers and practitioners to transcend the hitherto ‘siloed’ transport planning and development studies domains. The INTALInC (International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities) project seeks to promote ‘research into practice’ to highlights the transport and mobility needs of urban poor and socially vulnerable populations in Global South cities and to identify more effective solutions for meeting their travel needs.
The eight deliberative workshops that formed the backbone of the research process have identified that women, children, older people and people with disabilities are the most severely affected by transport poverty. Overwhelmingly, the urban poor rely on walking as their main mode of transport, often travelling long distances to get from the peripheral urban slums where they live to their employment and other activities in the city centre. Badly designed transport infrastructures combined with high-levels of largely unregulated traffic expose them to numerous safety and health risks. Their restricted accessibility to job, markets, education, healthcare and other welfare activities severely reduces their livelihoods and life chances. These wider social consequences of inequitable and unsustainable transport systems in Global South cities have been largely ignored by transport planners and social policy professional alike.
University of Leeds
11/1/2018 10:55:46 AM
Developing travel behaviour models using mobile phone data by Andrew Bwambale
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies research seminar series.
Mobile phone data has recently emerged as a very promising source of data for developing mobility models. Previous transport applications of mobile phone data have however focused primarily on extracting travel patterns and trends. This research aims to extend the application of mobile phone data to mainstream travel behaviour modelling and policy analysis by augmenting the data with information from other sources. This comes along with significant challenges arising from the anonymous and noisy nature of the data. Consequently, novel modelling frameworks have been developed in the context of trip generation, route choice and departure time choice modelling to address these challenges. These have been tested using different types of mobile phone data from Switzerland, Senegal and Bangladesh, providing us with rich insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the different data types.
In all the cases, the model estimation results are consistent with the expected travel behaviour. Moreover, validation exercises with respect to hold-out samples and/or valuation metrics from other sources (such as the value of travel time) produce satisfactory results, thereby demonstrating the potential of mobile phone data for transport policy analysis. The findings are expected to be useful to transport practitioners - particularly those working in contexts where traditional data sources for transport modelling are scarce.
University of Leeds
11/12/2018 10:54:02 AM
Discrete choice and machine learning: Thomson and Thompson? by Professor Michel Bierlaire
This presentation was delivered as part of the Choice Modelling Centre (CMC) seminar series and Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) seminar series. Introduction by Professor Stephane Hess, ITS, University of Leeds.
Abstract: Classification methods from machine learning are receiving a lot of attention in the transportation modelling community. This is motivated by the access to large databases, and to various success stories reported in this research community.
Discrete choice models have been used for decades to model the behaviour of travellers, faced to various types of decisions.
In this talk, we will compare the two approaches, and highlight their differences. In particular, we will identify good and less good practices in each community.
Bio: Michel Bierlaire is the director of the Transport and Mobility laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Since 2009, he is the director of TraCE, the Transportation Center. Since September 2017, he is the head of the Civil Engineering Institute at EPFL.
His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modelling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices), operations research (scheduling, assignment, etc.) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems.
He is the founder of hEART: the European Association for Research in Transportation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. He is an Associate Editor of Operations Research and an Editorial Board Editor of Transportation Research Part B.
Professor Michel Bierlaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
6/11/2019 12:06:07 PM
Disruption management in railway networks by Professor Francesco Corman
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by Professor Ronghui Lui.
Abstract: A major problem of public transport, and railways in particular, is to improve quality of operations by updating an offline timetable to the ever changing delays situation, in order to improve performance of the transport system. In railway systems, this relates to reduce train delays by reordering retiming or rerouting trains, and/or change connection plans and route advised to passengers, to improve their traveltime.
Key point of research is the interaction between the problem (of the infrastructure manager) to reschedule trains, and the problem (of the travellers) to find the optimal route in the network. In fact, changing passenger flows, respectively delaying trains and/or dropping passenger connections, varies the setting under which the two decision makers respectively interact. The interaction of the two decisions makers is mediated by the information one decision maker has about the other, and the service which is offered/used. We report different methods to address this dilemma, by agent-based simulation.
Bio: Francesco Corman holds the chair of Transport Systems at the Institute of Transport Planning and Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has a PhD in Transport Sciences from TUDelft, the Netherlands, on operations research techniques for realtime railway traffic control. He has academic experience at KU Leuven, Belgium and TUDelft as research associate in transportation and logistics. Main research interests are in the application of quantitative methods and operations research to transport sciences, especially on the operational perspective, public transport, railways and logistics.
Professor Francesco Corman, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.
2/28/2019 11:22:55 AM
Dr Judith Hanks - Social Sciences Short
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9/24/2021 1:34:19 PM
Dr Laura Considine - Social Sciences Short
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9/23/2021 6:38:58 PM
iPhone dunk shows the magic of "wet" computing
New liquid-cooled Iceotope computer servers installed at the University of Leeds cuts energy used for cooling Internet servers by more than 80 percent. The whirring fans of traditional computers are replaced by the barely-audible trickle of liquid. The heat released can be piped out to radiators to warm a building. The developers say it could revolutionise the energy-hungry data centres that form the fabric of our online lives.But don't we all know that liquid and electronics don't mix? Dr Jon Summers, from the University of Leeds' School of Mechanical Engineering, shows what happens when you put an iPhone in a beaker of the secret ingredient: 3M (TM) Novec (TM) liquid. For more details on the Iceotope Servers at Leeds see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3374/ WARNING: The phone experiment shown in this video is intended to demonstrate the special qualities of the liquid used in the Iceotope server. Putting an electronic device in liquid can cause problems other than a short circuit. Liquid is likely to be trapped and may affect the functionality of the device (eg. screen dimming or ghosting, speaker problems).
Dr Jon Summers
2/26/2013 1:25:00 PM
Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Centre
Professor Rik Brydson explains the purpose of the centre, the instruments it contains and how the centre is used for research.
Professor Rik Brydson
11/13/2013 11:20:00 AM
Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence fellow Bee Bond talks about her project so far.
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12/14/2016 2:31:04 PM
Leeds Migration Research Network Launch Event: Professor Bridget Anderson Keynote address
Professor Bridget Anderson (COMPAS) gives the keynote address and answers questions at the launch of the Leeds Migration Research Network, 9th June, 2016. Professor Adrian Favell (Sociology and Social Policy) chairs the event, and there is an introductory address by PVC Professor David Hogg.
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9/2/2016 11:22:03 AM
LIDA Seminar: Beyond the traditional- Data Science for official statistics
University of Leeds
2/22/2018 2:59:41 PM
LIDA Seminar: Big Data and Spatial Disadvantage
Dr Sandy Tubeuf – Evaluating neighbourhood based policies using Secondary Data: the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme
Dr Stephen Clark – A spatial microsimulation using England and Wales Census and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) data to estimate sub-regional morbidities for the over 50 year olds
Prof Robert Tanton – Measuring and Modelling spatial disadvantage
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11/3/2016 11:52:47 AM
LIDA Seminar: Big data to improve cardiovascular health: Hype or reality?
This seminar was chaired by Dr Chris Gale, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Health Sciences and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist.
First talk given by Dr Marlous Hall: "#datasaveslives: Examples from the UK's national register of acute myocardial infarction".
Second talk given by Miss T. Bernadette Dondo: "Beta blocker use and mortality among hospital survivors of acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study".
Main talk given by Professor Kazem Rahimi: "The hype or reality of big data to improve cardiovascular health".
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1/24/2017 3:24:34 PM
LIDA Seminar: DAGS for causal Inference
University of Leeds
3/8/2018 2:54:06 PM
Linking Leeds with Department for Transport Webinar (DfT) 23 June 2021
Linking Leeds with Department for Transport Webinar (DfT) 23 June 2021
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7/5/2021 8:04:38 AM
Mapping human population - a data science approach by Martijn Tennekes
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by
Abstract: Where do people live? How do they commute? Where and when do they go on holiday? These are typical questions that are important for national statistical institutes. Whereas in the past, survey data and classical (frequentist) statistical inference were used to produce such statistics, nowadays, a variety of methods from Bayesian statistical inference and machine learning are applied, using a mix of administrative data and big data. Furthermore, data visualization is increasingly important to analyse the results and present them to the general public. In this presentation, I illustrate this new trend in official statistics with two research projects that are related to mapping human population.
Mobile phone network data can be used to estimate where people are during the day. In contrast to census data, which contains information about where people live, the 'nighttime' population, mobile phone network data opens up the possibility to estimate the 'daytime' population. A key challenge is to develop general methodology for using mobile phone network data. I will zoom in on one specific task, namely how to estimate the geographical location of a mobile phone, and present an Bayesian approach to solve this.
Today, statistics can be produced with much more spatial detail. An innovative visualization method that can be used to present spatial statistics is the dot map, in which every person is represented by a dot. I illustrate the dot map with some examples and describe the used methodology and software to create the dot map.
BIo: I have a Masters in knowledge engineering (now called data science) and a PHD in game theory (Maastricht University). I am currently working at Statistics Netherlands ('the Dutch ONS') as data scientist on data visualization, statistical programming, and the use of big data for official statistics and I am a Visiting Researcher at Oxford e-Research Centre.
Martijn Tennekes, Dutch Office for National Statistics (CBS)
2/17/2020 12:54:46 PM
Market Research for Academics
Philippa Bevan from Accelerate Associates presents on Market Research for academic research and how it can be used to define your USP. More than a literature review!
University of Leeds
6/27/2017 10:15:37 AM
Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - Digital Makers
Recorded on 18 November 2021 as part of our Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - The New Reality webinar series.
In March this year, a UK think tank warned that the country was heading towards a digital skills shortage ‘disaster’. In Bradford, the city has been held back for many years by its inability to leverage its youthful population to harness the commercial power of emerging digital technologies.
Digital Makers aims to change this. With a comprehensive programme of research and training, it is equipping Bradford’s schools with the knowledge and insight they need to transform their digital education landscape and generate learnings that will be of national and global importance.
In this webinar, Director of the Centre for Immersive Technologies Professor Mark Mon-Williams and Assistant Professor at the University of Bradford Dr Mai Elshehaly, will provide an overview of how Digital Makers has been developed and the exciting and innovative opportunities it is creating for children and young people.
By working through the pioneering Born in Bradford programme, Digital Makers has been able to leverage the immense power of connected datasets and develop a world-leading partnership network. Decision makers and school communities have worked together to tackle the digital divide at a local level and a whole series of new digital resources and training packages have been developed to create a steady pipeline of tech savvy talent from Bradford’s young people.
For more events please visit the Leeds alumni website alumni.leeds.ac.uk/events
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11/19/2021 10:18:10 PM
Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - Extending reality for tomorrow's doctors
Recorded on 16 November 2021 as part of our Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - The New Reality webinar series.
The advent of restricted hours, and the ongoing COVID pandemic has placed a sharp focus on supplementing training for healthcare professionals beyond the apprenticeship ‘hands-on’ model.
Immersive technologies are increasingly influencing healthcare, both in direct clinical practice and also in training, allowing for ‘load, operate, repeat’ models of training and simulation.
During this webinar, you’ll hear from Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon Ryan Mathew as he answers the following questions: what is this technology capable of? How do we make it happen?
For more events please visit the Leeds alumni website alumni.leeds.ac.uk/events
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11/17/2021 10:27:17 PM
Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - Using virtual technologies in cultural institutions
Recorded on 23 November 2021 as part of our Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - The New Reality webinar series.
This webinar will address how museums, memorial sites and other cultural institutions are using virtual and immersive technologies to deepen visitor understanding.
Lecturer in Digital Media and Academic Lead with the Centre for Immersive Technologies Dr Tom Jackson, will consider how these technologies can present new means of accessing and engaging with sites of cultural and historical significance.
The significant ethical implications of these technological developments, with a particular focus on the ethics of virtual Holocaust memorialisation, will also be explored.
For more events please visit the Leeds alumni website alumni.leeds.ac.uk/events
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11/24/2021 5:17:46 PM
Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - Virtual reality and pro-environmental behaviour
Recorded on 25 November 2021 as part of our Meet the Researchers: Immersive Technology - The New Reality webinar series.
Virtual reality has recently started to be used as a tool to generate empathy and raise awareness for issues such as the impact of climate change. But does this experience of virtual reality translate into subsequent meaningful behaviour change?
In this webinar, PhD student Catherine Graves will provide an overview of her research exploring the relationship between virtual reality and behaviour change focusing on pro-environment and climate mitigating behaviour.
For more events please visit the Leeds alumni website alumni.leeds.ac.uk/events
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11/26/2021 10:40:00 AM
Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship
Description of the Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship scheme
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11/12/2021 2:05:00 PM
Modelling the uptake of active travel: from infrastructure to behaviour change
Modelling the uptake of active travel: from infrastructure to behaviour change. Presentation by Dr Robin Lovelace & Dr Malcolm Morgan for the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) Seminar Series
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/events/seminar-series http://rpubs.com/RobinLovelace/335368
This talk provides an overview of the work that Robin Lovelace and Malcolm Morgan have been doing as part of their Department for Transport funded projects on the Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT, which has become part of UK government policy in the Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Strategy) and follow-on work on the Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit (CyIPT). Although strong evidence shows that infrastructure usually precedes (and to some extent causes) behaviour change the starting point of the talk will be behaviour: how do people currently get around and how could it be different, based on the fundamentals of route distance and hilliness. Robin demonstrates the PCT in action, talks about the R package stplanr that he developed to develop it, and outline plans for a globally scalable transport planning toolkit that builds on the PCT work.
Following this high-level overview, Malcolm zooms into the detail: How the CyIPT identifies the best places for infrastructure change and what that infrastructure should be. He also talks about the advanced programming techniques needed to process such complex geospatial network data at city to national levels.
Further information:
The PCT in action: http://www.pct.bike
A prototype of the CyIPT: http://cyipt.bike
A paper on the PCT (Lovelace et al 2017): www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/862
An article explaining stplanr (for people interested in the tech): https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stplanr/vignettes/introducing-stplanr.html
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research
Dr Robin Lovelace
11/29/2017 1:21:12 PM
NORTHMOST02 Ian Palmer TfN
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 8:32:16 AM
NORTHMOST02 John Swanson SDG
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 12:21:49 PM
NORTHMOST02 Mike Oliver PTV
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 12:21:49 PM
NORTHMOST02 Nic Cary DfT
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 10:22:31 AM
NORTHMOST02 Stuart Dalgleish AECOM
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 10:22:31 AM
NORTHMOST02 Tom van Vuren Mott MacDonald
NORTHMOST02 was held in ITS-Leeds on 12th June 2017.
The event was led by practitioners with technical expertise in transport modelling, giving presentations to an expert audience of academics and fellow practitioners.
The aim of the meeting was to close the gap between research and practice, and to establish a feedback loop, to communicate the needs of practitioners to research academics who are actively developing new mathematical models.
University of Leeds
6/12/2017 8:32:16 AM
PCI Mountainsides Symposium: Introduction
Jonathan Pitches introduces the inaugural Mountainsides symposium held on the 6th April, 2016 at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
Prof Jonathan Pitches
5/17/2016 11:32:06 AM
Reflections from a successful Academic - Industry Collaboration
Richard Hall from Pd-m and Pete Culmer from UoL present on how successful collaborations with academia and industry can lead to developing research and receiving funding (NIHR-i4i)
University of Leeds
6/27/2017 12:16:25 PM
Research themes at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)
An overview of the interdisciplinary themes studied across the Institute www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research/themes
Professor Karen Lucas, Director of Research & Innovation
2/18/2016 11:20:26 AM
Robot Autonomous Safety Guard demonstration at the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event 2017
Lucie, an intelligent mobile robot able to run autonomously for months in dynamic human environments, was demonstrated by Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham) and Tony Cohn (University of Leeds). The demonstration took place at the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event (27 to 28 June at Weetwood Hall, Leeds), part of the UK Robotics Week 2017, which showcased the current state-of-the-art of robotics for infrastructure through a packed programme of talks and demonstrations. The event brought together over 80 academics, industry, policy makers and stakeholders to explore the use of robotics in the creation, inspection, repair and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Dr Nick Hawes explains more about the STRANDS project work that gave rise to Lucie and the value of attending the Robotics Challenge Event.
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8/11/2017 1:35:43 PM
Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event Overview
The Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event took place on 27 to 28 June at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, as part of the UK Robotics Week 2017, to showcase the current state-of-the-art of robotics for infrastructure through a packed programme of talks and demonstrations. The event brought together over 80 academics, industry, policy makers and stakeholders to explore the use of robotics in the creation, inspection, repair and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Nine teams from across the UK came to compete, along with several video-only entries from international teams. This film gives an overview of the event and competing robots.
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8/11/2017 9:58:29 AM
Secretary of State for Transport - Institute for Transport Studies
The Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt. Hon Chris Grayling MP, delivers a keynote speech to mark the official opening of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) building, March 2017. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4011/cutting-edge_transport_research_showcased_to_secretary_of_state
For a selection of photos of the wider event please see: http://bit.ly/2o1xK4f
Rt. Hon Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Transport, March 2017
3/2/2017 11:45:00 AM
Something Wicked - Digital Tools to Upscale Hand-Crafted Production
Working with Future Fashion Factory, Something Wicked is upscaling its production capacity while keeping creative talent at the heart of the manufacturing process.
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12/9/2020 12:00:22 PM
Studying in a Digital Age
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10/18/2016 1:48:57 PM
The M&S Partnership: bringing education and business togethe
Find out how the University’s partnership with Marks & Spencer has delivered impactful research, driven our student employability and offered unique cross-cultural opportunities.
University of Leeds
4/10/2015 2:45:00 PM
Translating Research - a starter for 10
Dr Chris Herbert gives a general overview on what you should consider when translating your research
University of Leeds
6/16/2017 8:54:20 AM
Understanding human mobility, ridership and spatial inequity using travel smart card data by Associate Professor Yan Liu
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by Professor Ronghui Liu, ITS, University of Leeds.
Abstract:Public transport has been increasingly recognised as a crucial component of a sustainable and functional city to improve urban accessibility, quality of life and environmental quality. However, the use of public transport in Australia remains small comparing to car use. This is in part due to the low density urban development and dispersed urban structure which result in significant variation in access to public transport services and the associated inequalities across urban areas and for disadvantaged groups. This seminar presents an evaluation of a system-wide public transport fare policy reform and how it has affected commuter travel behaviours and ridership based on data from travel smart cards in use in Southeast Queensland (SEQ), Australia. Spatial inequities of all population and by different population sub-groups are assessed and how these impact on ridership and human mobility are also evaluated through a like-for-like comparison and using Lorenz Curve and Gini-Index measures. By developing an equity monitoring dashboard, our work demonstrates a generic framework that can be used to model and assess potential impact of any policy change on ridership and equities at different spatial and vertical scales.
Bio: Yan Liu is an Associate Professor in Geographical Information Sciences at the University of Queensland. She runs the Spatio-Temporal Analytics Research Laboratory (STAR Lab). Yan’s research focuses on GIS, spatial analysis and modelling. She develops and applies cellular automata and agent based models to describe, understand, simulate and predict urban and human change dynamics and processes. She also develops spatially integrated analytical and modelling approaches for applications in social geographic research including spatial accessibility modelling, spatial inequality in health and wellbeing, neighbour relations, spatial travel behaviours, participatory GIS, and spatial science education. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Spatial Science and the Editorial Board member of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. She is also an Affiliate Academic at the Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Queensland. Her research is supported by the Australia Research Council (ARC) and other funding sources.
Yan Liu, Associate professor, University of Queensland
6/10/2019 9:23:40 AM
University of Leeds Africa College: Professor Christine Foyer
Professor Christine Foyer, Faculty of Biological Sciences discusses the projects undertaken by the institute, including the work involved in improving food security in Africa.
Professor Christine Foyer
8/23/2012 1:40:00 PM
Users’ behaviour and impacts of car sharing services: the case of Copenhagen by Andrea Vanesa Papu Carrone, DTU, Denmark
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by Professor David Watling.
Andrea Vanesa Papu Carrone, Visiting Research Student , DTU, Denmark
11/21/2019 12:51:54 PM
Using decision field theory models in transport modelling: how far have we got and what can we do next? by Thomas Hancock
This presentation was delivered as part of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) research seminar series: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/6/transport. Introduction by Professor Stephane Hess.
Decision field theory (DFT), although popular in mathematical psychology, has only recently made the transition to choice modelling for consumer choices. One of the key differences that DFT has from standard choice models is that it has preference values for each alternative that update over time. This results in a different probability of picking each alternative depending on how long a decision-maker considers their alternatives. Theoretically, this provides a perfect model for explaining and modelling decisions where attributes of possible alternatives change (i.e, gap sizes in lane changing and gap acceptance choices). However, computational complexities of calculating the probability of alternatives in DFT models have resulted in simplifications. Typically, the number of deliberation timesteps has been set to a high value and thus the stochastic process is averaged out. This consequently ignores and fails to utilise the dynamic nature of DFT. This talk discusses the steps towards building a dynamic DFT. First, we demonstrate that DFT can be used effectively to model choices from typical SP and RP transport choice datasets. Second, we consider how the number of deliberation timesteps in a DFT model can be estimated as a function of choice response time. Finally, we discuss the remaining steps required to make DFT a properly dynamic model that can incorporate dynamic data.
Thomas Hancock, Research Student, ITS, University of Leeds
12/5/2018 1:53:43 PM
Using Drones to Repair Roads with 3D Printing demonstration at the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event 2017
A system to use drones to scan and then repair pot holes in roads using a 3D printing attachment was demonstrated by a team from the University of Leeds as part of the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event that took place on 27 to 28 June at Weetwood Hall, Leeds. The event in UK Robotics Week 2017 showcased the current state-of-the-art of robotics for infrastructure through a packed programme of talks and demonstrations. It brought together over 80 academics, industry, policy makers and stakeholders to explore the use of robotics in the creation, inspection, repair and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Here Jake Smith explains the demonstration and the value of attending the Robotics Challenge Event. This drone system is being developed by researchers at the University of Leeds as part of the Self Repairing Cities project, with the extruder system being developed by project partner UCL.
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8/11/2017 2:39:44 PM
Wireless Power Transfer for Pipe Inspection Robot demonstration at the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event 2017
A pipe inspection robot that is powered wirelessly was demonstrated by a team from the University of Leeds as part of the Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Robotic Challenge Event that took place on 27 to 28 June at Weetwood Hall, Leeds. The event took place in UK Robotics Week 2017, and showcased the current state-of-the-art of robotics for infrastructure through a packed programme of talks and demonstrations. The event brought together over 80 academics, industry, policy makers and stakeholders to explore the use of robotics in the creation, inspection, repair and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Here Dr Viktor Doychnov talks about the difficulty of inspecting pipes and the advantage of wireless power delivery shown in their demonstration.
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8/11/2017 1:47:35 PM
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