The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Recently I become part of the editorial team at the Bike-Sharing World Map (this is a new version, not yet launched) which is the world’s only comprehensive map of bikeshare systems, listing the approximately 2000 active systems along with another 1000 that are either in planning or already closed. The Bike-Sharing World Map was compiled […]
Continue reading »Will autonomous vehicles change our experiences of streets for better, or worse? TransportXtra
Continue reading »Will autonomous vehicles change our experiences of streets for better, or worse? TransportXtra
Continue reading »Building on our initial work on emojis use and and how one can carry out a systematic comparison of emojis across individual user profiles and communication patterns within social media, we have a new paper entitled: “Diversity from Emojis and Ke…
Continue reading »Continuing and building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) at the The 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management we have a paper entitled “Location-Based Social Network Data Generation Based on Patterns o…
Continue reading »We have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Transport Geography- “A compact city for the wealthy? Employment accessibility inequalities between occupational classes in the London metropolitan region 2011“. The paper explores how the increasingly affluent nature of Inner London has improved sustainable travel opportunities for more affluent professional and management classes, … Continue reading A Compact City for the Wealthy? Continuing Inner London Gentrification and Impacts on Accessibility Inequalities →
Continue reading »There’s a new bikeshare in London – HumanForest launched yesterday (Wednesday 24 June 2020) with 63 pedelec bicycles. They are planning on rolling out up to 200 bicycles in their Islington trial operation, before hopefully expanding to central London later this summer with up to 1000 in their fleet. HumanForest’s technology platform and equipment provider […]
Continue reading »The bright red JUMP bikes are alas gone from the streets of London, following the takeover of Uber’s JUMP micromobility division by rival Lime. They may be back on the streets, maybe painted green, soon. But for now, we can view this amazing data…
Continue reading »Building upon two successful GeoSim workshops, the 2020 GeoSim Workshop (held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 conference) is seeking papers. The 3rd GeoSim workshop will focus on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and…
Continue reading »Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different settings: a mathematical modelling study The Lancet
Continue reading »Building upon our work on volunteered geographical information (VGI) and ambient geographic information (AGI) and how such data (e.g. social media) can be used to understand place, Xiaoyi Yuan, Andreas Züfle and myself have a new paper entitled: “A Th…
Continue reading »Missing travelling on the London Underground? Now, you can see the trains running, live, on this custom-made circuit board showing thetube network. An array of lights, one for each tube and DLR station, uses open data from Transport for London to show …
Continue reading »Building upon our previous work on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) and how agent-based modeling could provide an alternative to real world data sets, in the latest SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter, we (Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Chris Rouly, Hyunj…
Continue reading »Covid-19 tracking ethics JTC Associates Ltd
Continue reading »In the past we have written extensively on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) such as OpenStreetMap or Twitter. However, we have not really explored Street View Imagery (SVI), well not until now. Within the realm of VGI, SVI has emerged in …
Continue reading »Overview London and the UK as a whole have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, creating multiple health, social and economic crises. Social distancing requirements have drastically reduced the safe capacity of public transport services. The London Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have quickly responded with a radical plan for transforming Inner London … Continue reading Planning a Cycling Revolution for Post-Lockdown London →
Continue reading »So draws an end of another semester and as it is becoming a bit of tradition, here is a post highlighting some of the class projects from my graduate class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of m…
Continue reading »Dr. Hannah Fry to Keynote Alation’s Virtual User Conference Valdosta Daily Times
Continue reading »Dr. Hannah Fry to Keynote Alation’s Virtual User Conference Business Wire
Continue reading »CIPD Festival of Work goes digital for 2020 Workplace Insight
Continue reading »CIPD Festival of Work goes digital for 2020 Workplace Insight
Continue reading »CIPD’s Festival of Work goes digital for 2020 – Press Release Service Personnel Today
Continue reading »CIPD’s Festival of Work goes digital for 2020 CIPD
Continue reading »Cities are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic. Why?Continue reading on Medium »
Continue reading »I earlier this week spoke at a Cycling@Tea-Time seminar, on the impact of lockdown on bikeshare, looking at London, the UK, and the world in general. The talk was based on some very preliminary crunching through some CDRC datasets to see how usage has changed, both in volume and time-of-day, for how people are using […]
Continue reading »How tall is Dr Hannah Fry? Height of Horizon mathematician explained! Reality Titbit – Celebrity TV News
Continue reading »How tall is Dr Hannah Fry? Height of Horizon mathematician explained! Reality Titbit
Continue reading »Most London sidewalks are not wide enough for social distancing Medical Xpress
Continue reading »Today the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is launching a document that is aimed to help with identifying the type of activiti es that belong to citizen science. The document “ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science” is coming ready with an interpretation document, which is called “ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science – Explanation Notes“. They are … Continue reading Introducing: ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science
Continue reading »While more people are living in urban areas than ever before, and this is expected to grow in the coming decades, this growth is not equal. Some cities are actually shrinking, such as Detroit in the United States. The causes of urban shrinkage have bee…
Continue reading »Most London pavements not wide enough for social distancing, says UCL research TransportXtra
Continue reading »Most people today are actively engaged on at least one social networking site, enabling individuals to keep in touch with old friends, connect with new people, and rapidly disseminate information to all. The method by which users find and link up with …
Continue reading »Blue Crow Media, long-time makers of bespoke themed maps of London and other places, have switched from their regular architecture focus and produced a lovely new map focusing on notable trees in the capital. There are around as many trees as people in…
Continue reading »ULI Europe Webinar: Promoting Housing Affordability | ULI Urban Land
Continue reading »Trust for London (TFL), a charity and themselves a major funder of charitable projects in London to address poverty and inequality, has this week launched the London Poverty Profile (LPP) 2020. There is an updated data-driven website with over 100 different indicators of poverty and inequality, compiled by WPI Economics, along with a PDF report […]
Continue reading »Our Little Book of Connected Environments is about opening up the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide information about our environment. From city-wide systems and the idea of the Smart City through to bui…
Continue reading »Recently, I have been teaching a Full-stack development bootcamp at CodeOp (great experience!). When the students reached project phase, I was very pleased to see a lot of interest in using maps. And that is easy to understand, right? geospatial … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Waiters were the stars at celebrity kosher joint Blooms The Times
Continue reading »‘THE’ is a mini MQTT Information Display for Time, News and Environmental Information. Using a 4.2-inch eInk screen, its concept is simple – to display information on a rotational basis, updating every coupl…
Continue reading »In the second of our blogs reflecting back and looking ahead, we welcome Associate Professor Paul Norman, University of Leeds, reflecting on changing data sources for contemporary research. Population geographers started the ‘twenty-teens’ looking forward to the then census rounds, though internationally there had been more than a few rumblings that the era of censuses was coming … More Doing population geography, but what data sources are we doing it with?
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