The quantity, diversity and availability of transport data is
increasing rapidly, requiring new skills in the management and
interrogation of data and databases. Recent years have seen a new
wave of 'big data', 'Data Science', and 'smart cities' changing the
world, with the Harvard Business Review describing Data Science as
the "sexiest job of the 21st century". Transportation professionals
and researchers need to be able to use data and databases in order
to establish quantitative, empirical facts, and to validate and
challenge their mathematical models, whose axioms have
traditionally often been assumed rather than rigorously tested
against data. This book takes a highly practical approach to
learning about Data Science tools and their application to
investigating transport issues. The focus is principally on
practical, professional work with real data and tools, including
business and ethical issues. "Transport modeling practice was
developed in a data poor world, and many of our current techniques
and skills are building on that sparsity. In a new data rich world,
the required tools are different and the ethical questions around
data and privacy are definitely different. I am not sure whether
current professionals have these skills; and I am certainly not
convinced that our current transport modeling tools will survive in
a data rich environment. This is an exciting time to be a data
scientist in the transport field. We are trying to get to grips
with the opportunities that big data sources offer; but at the same
time such data skills need to be fused with an understanding of
transport, and of transport modeling. Those with these combined
skills can be instrumental at providing better, faster, cheaper
data for transport decision- making; and ultimately contribute to
innovative, efficient, data driven modeling techniques of the
future. It is not surprising that this course, this book, has been
authored by the Institute for Transport Studies. To do this well,
you need a blend of academic rigor and practical pragmatism. There
are few educational or research establishments better equipped to
do that than ITS Leeds". - Tom van Vuren, Divisional Director, Mott
MacDonald "WSP is proud to be a thought leader in the world of
transport modelling, planning and economics, and has a wide range
of opportunities for people with skills in these areas. The
evidence base and forecasts we deliver to effectively implement
strategies and schemes are ever more data and technology focused a
trend we have helped shape since the 1970's, but with particular
disruption and opportunity in recent years. As a result of these
trends, and to suitably skill the next generation of transport
modellers, we asked the world-leading Institute for Transport
Studies, to boost skills in these areas, and they have responded
with a new MSc programme which you too can now study via this
book." - Leighton Cardwell, Technical Director, WSP. "From
processing and analysing large datasets, to automation of modelling
tasks sometimes requiring different software packages to "talk" to
each other, to data visualization, SYSTRA employs a range of
techniques and tools to provide our clients with deeper insights
and effective solutions. This book does an excellent job in giving
you the skills to manage, interrogate and analyse databases, and
develop powerful presentations. Another important publication from
ITS Leeds." - Fitsum Teklu, Associate Director (Modelling &
Appraisal) SYSTRA Ltd "Urban planning has relied for decades on
statistical and computational practices that have little to do with
mainstream data science. Information is still often used as
evidence on the impact of new infrastructure even when it hardly
contains any valid evidence. This book is an extremely welcome
effort to provide young professionals with the skills needed to
analyse how cities and transport networks actually work. The book
is also highly relevant to anyone who will later want to build
digital solutions to optimise urban travel based on emerging data
sources". - Yaron Hollander, author of "Transport Modelling for a
Complete Beginner"
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