Friday, May 31, 2019

More evidence on the health benefits of active transport

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“Women who averaged approx. 4400 steps/d had significantly lower mortality rates [..] compared with the least active women who took approx...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

My presentation at the 2019 ITF Summit

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shameless self-promotion post  again  Last week I was attending the 2019 International Transport Forum Summit , where I presented a...
Monday, May 27, 2019

How congestion pricing works in London and how it could soon work in NYC

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New York city is closer than ever to adopt congestion pricing . This could be a major change in how they address their transportation chal...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Biographical note: ITF/OECD award

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Hi all. I am so glad to share that I have been honored with the 2019 Young Researcher of the Year Award, by the International Transport F...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Urban Picture

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image credit: Filip Bogdan, Bucharest, 2007
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

The reasons two variables can be correlated

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A concise illustration, by Thomas Lumley . This reminded me of this quite comprehensive list of some  ridiculous    spurious correlations...
Friday, May 3, 2019

R Links

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The  ipumsr  package helps import census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. I've mentioned IPUMS...

Off to Sweden

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Professor So nia Yeh ( Twitter ) was awarded with the Håkan Frisingers scholarship for her innovative research on sustainable transport a...
Monday, April 29, 2019

New Center for Demographic Science at Oxford

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Oxford University has recently launched the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science  (they are also on Twitter ). The center is led by...
Friday, April 26, 2019

The global population pyramid from 1950 to 2100

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New piece by Max Roser in Our World in Data , showing how global demography has changed and what we can expect for the 21st century. In...