Urban Demographics

The Int Journal of Geo-information has opened a call for papers for special issue on " Advances in Spatial and Transport Network Anal...

Great piece with a critical take and neat data analysis of how the New York’s High Line project affected real state property prices . It w...

I've said this on Twitter before but I should say it here as well. Craig Taylor and the Ito World team have some of the best data vi...

Great paper with an interesting application of Braess’s paradox to transportation: closing roads can reduce travel delays. Youn , H., Gastne...

Google has a call on urban mobility , via Cecilia Mascolo

Pappalardo , L., Simini , F., Pedreschi , D., Barabasi , L. et al. (2015).  Returners and explorers dichotomy in human mobility . Nature C...

Stephan Franziskus runs an  interesting blog  where he has written a great post about the history Isochrone Maps . These maps use color gr...

Here is my first experience mapping a transit system using GTFS data! The map shows the bus public transport system of the city of Rio...

Eric Fischer (Mapbox) has has created an interactive map showing traffic density measurements for US roads . The data comes from the High...

Riccardo Gallotti and Marc Barthelemy  have recently published an interesting paper on the  Anatomy and efficiency of urban multimodal mo...

'One Day on Waze'  is a series of data visualization videos showing 24 hours worth of data on Waze. The cities include: Boston , Ja...

Bradley Voytek writes about what a a neuroscientist is doing at Uber* (ht MR ).  In short, Voytek is finding network patterns, mapping di...

What happens when you try to bring your Nobel Prize through airport security? 1907-1915 - Russia Before the Revolution, in Color Spai...

LSE Report -  Cities and Energy: Urban Morphology and Heat Energy Demand Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion throu...

A while ago, we have pointed out to some data visualization of taxi trips in New York . Recently, Chris Whong and Andrés Monroy got acc...

Comparing the UK Department for Transport forecasts of road traffic with actual road traffic (via George Monbiot ). Interestingly, it repe...

In a recent Editorial for the journal Transport Reviews, David Banister presents some interesting numbers about the growth of transport-r...

Gareth Simons  has done an amazing work visualizing Disabled Freedom Pass trips on the London Underground. More details on his website . ...

In June 2013, the rise in Bus fares were the spark for huge protests in more than 80 cities in Brazil .  In this report (published in Por...

Nishitateno, S and Burke, P (2014)  The motorcycle Kuznets curve .  Journal of Transport Geography . Volume 36, Pages 116–123. Abstract ...