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!

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...

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 🚀

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 🚀

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...

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

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...

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.

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!

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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!

⚡ Excited to announce a PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds! ⚡ If you're interested in developing spatial interaction models for fast and fair decarbonisation, check it out: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2171... Please share with anyone interested 🙏

The Transport Data Minihack in ITS Leeds is underway! Great to be here developing reproducible data processing pipelines with interesting datasets to answer real-world problems. For anyone who would like to follow online see links to datasets and challenges here: itsleeds.github.io/tds/minihack...

It's been many months since I last tried out the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) design tool developed by Dustin Carlino, and I'm blown away, it's on another level 🤯 Responsive, informative, intuitive, accessible, fully open. See for yourself here: a-b-street.github.io/ltn

Je l'attendais depuis quelques années depuis son equivalent en R, geocomputation with python, une ressource open source aussi pratique que didactique. Merci aux auteurs @robinlovelace.bsky.social et les autres. py.geocompx.org

Looking forward to my inaugural lecture tomorrow 🚀 For anyone who cannot make it in person, 16:30-17:30 British Summer Time (BST) in Leeds but would like to join online, please let me know, and we can sort you out with a link to the Teams livestream. Fired up, ready to go 🔥

Exciting news: tickets for the 2-day workshop I'm doing on Data Science for Transport Planning are now available from the University of Leeds. See details here: store.leeds.ac.uk/product-cata...

Looking forward to my inaugural lecture, this Thursday 8th May. In it I will reflect on the influences that guided my journey and discussing priorities for future-proof transport planning research and practice. Still time to sign-up: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/lee...

I presented on network data for sustainable transport interventions at the RAC Foundation's Data Driven 2025 event today in London. Thanks for the invite Ivo and team, and to other presenters for excellent and highly policy-relevant content. Slides + links: robinlovelace.github.io/datadriven25...

Looking forward to presenting work on integrating multiple transport network datasets for network planning at GISRUK in Bristol tomorrow. For anyone interested in the topic but unable to make it in person, you can see the #reproducible slides here: robinlovelace.github.io/gisruk2025/

If you want to go deep on geospatial data analysis check out Geocomputation with R. Now in its second edition, this book by @robinlovelace.bsky.social, @jakubnowosad.com, and Jannes Muenchow covers mapping (Chapter 9), but also has chapters on a wide range of geospatial analysis. r.geocompx.org

Happy to say that FINALLY all the docker images in the geocompx organisation are passing, bringing you up-to-date open source software for reproducible geo research and teaching in a box 🎁Take a look at here: github.com/geocompx/doc... Suggestions welcome and have fun with these 🚀

thanks for the mention! @mnolangray.bsky.social - the #rstats / #rspatial community has done a tremendous job to open up geospatial. Take a look here: r.geocompx.org Some good follows on people making GIS open and accessible: @giswqs.bsky.social, @jakubnowosad.com, @robinlovelace.bsky.social

📢 Public service announcement for #rstats users and learners working with geographic data: Geocomputation with R's Binder link is working again 🎉🎉You can give it a spin at r.geocompx.org and then clicking on the "Binder" link. #DataScience #geocompx

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 🎉 plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

🚀 Big news! Positron is HERE – a new data science IDE and according to my recent tests it's pretty much good to go! Packed it with powerful features and limitless extensions. ➡️ Get started today: positron.posit.co/download.html #DataScience #rstats #python #IDE #Positron

Join me for my inaugural lecture as Professor of Transport Data Science! "Data Science for Future-Proof Transport Planning" will take place on May 8, 2025, at 4:30 PM and you get get tickets here: www.ticketsource.us/whats-on/lee.... #TransportScience #OpenData

Academic collegiality and good vibes in action! Inspired by this team and looking forward to future collaborations.

What a week! I spent the best part of it in Copenhagen, an amazing city for active travel and liveability. I was there to examine the first thesis of the NEtwoRks, Data, and Society lab. It passed with flying colours 🎉 Congratulations to Anasstasia and team 🎉 www.robinlovelace.net/post/copenha...

Belated congratulations to Christian Werner! I was a small part of the process as an external review and fully agree: excellent piece of work that contributes to the field and provides a strong foundation for other researchers with open and reproducible code and new ideas for network planning 🚲

Very happy to see this published 🎉 News article by @universityofleeds.bsky.social media team provides a good introduction to a paper by Rosa Félix, Felipe Moura and me on modelling benefits of integrated public transport / cycle network investments. Please share transport/mobility Bluesky people🙏

Simplifying number of vertices in #Rstats? Avoid using st_simplify in the sf library and instead use ms-simplify in the rmapshaper library: r.geocompx.org/geometry-ope... @jakubnowosad.com @robinlovelace.bsky.social

This is going to be awesome, please repost!

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀