Monday, March 2, 2020

geobr v1.2 is on CRAN

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geobr v1.2 just landed on CRAN! geobr is an R package to download official spatial data sets of Brazil. It includes more than 20 data...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Assorted Links

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Evolution of European Motorways 1920-2020 Dataviz of spatial and temporal spread in networks paper:  Open office architecture seems to d...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Apply for the 2020 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency

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Since 2012, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities awards a young researcher every year with the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for S...

The media coverage of 'sustainable mobility'

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via Brent Toderian
Monday, February 10, 2020

When people ask how my research is going

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shared by  Taylor R. Genovese
Monday, February 3, 2020

Hacking the system with virtual traffic congestions

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In a brilliant artistic performance , Simon Weckert generated virtual traffic jams in Google Maps by pulling a wagon full of smartphones....
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Estimating total fertility rates from population pyramids

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Matt Hauer  and Carl Schmertmann ( both on Twitter ) have just published a new paper that promises to be a game changer in population st...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Why cities should focus on promoting accessibility, not mobility

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Amit Bhatt  (WRI) has written a very eloquent piece on why cities should focus on promoting accessibility, not mobility. Good read. ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Call for Applications: ITF Young Researcher of the Year Award

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The International Transport Forum ( ITF ) at the OECD has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Young Researcher of the Year Aw...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

First results of Access to Opportunities Project are now online

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Last week, we officialy launched the Access to Opportunities Project . In this first edition of the project (2019) we present accessibili...