Category Archives: Transport Models

Revisiting the Past

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Michael Batty

This article took 5 years in the making. We – Urskar, Jon, Ed, and myself – thought that it was a great project to see what was big data on taxi flows in central London in 1962 could be compared … Continue reading →

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New Tools for Planning the Smart City

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Michael Batty

I gave two lectures on our smart cities projects to Geography at Nanjing Normal University and to a selection of researchers at Shenyang Jianzhu University drawn from architecture, urban planning, transport and GIS on the 25th and 27th September 2017. I … Continue reading →

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GeoComputation 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Michael Batty

2017 International Conference on GeoComputation: Celebrating 21 Years of GeoComputation 4-7 September at the University of Leeds Stan Openshaw and his colleagues set up the first meeting 21 years ago in Leeds and it returns there for its coming of age. … Continue reading →

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