Robin Lovelace

Animated map of Active Travel Fund investment across England over the last 5 years, using open data and reproducible code. See here for code and download the data, comments/suggestions welcome: github.com/itsleeds/ukt...

Just stumbled upon this insightful Figure 7.16 from "Manual for Streets" (page 89). It shows the correlation between forward visibility, carriageway width, and vehicle speeds (both average & 85th percentile). Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7e00...

It's well-known that the rightly popular/ubiquitous version control software Git is good for tracking changes in computer code. But did you know that it's also an outstanding tool for tracking changes in natural language/prose?
Source: github.com/nptscot/netw...

Looking forward to the Speed Learning session tomorrow at Active City York, where me and Angus Calder from Sustrans will demo the Network Planning Tool for Scotland (NPT). Excited to show new StreetSpace data layer 🎉 For a taster, see here: www.npt.scot#/streetspace...

Delighted to announce: the NPT for Scotland was Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards! 🎉 Funded by Transport Scotland and delivered in collaboration with Sustrans, A/B Street and CycleStreets. Congrats to the team! #TransportPlanning #ActiveTravel

Looking forward to chairing a session on New ways of working for a new generation of transport modellers at Modelling World 2025. There's a great line-up of speakers and lots to discuss www.robinlovelace.net/talk/new-way...

Data Science for Transport Planning: 2 day course – Transport Data Science Based on demand, we’re organising a 2-day course teaching modern data science skills for transport planning, focussed on transport planning practitioners. This course will take place on the 18th and…

Looking forward to teaching the upcoming 2-day course Data Science for Transport Planning at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies. See more and follow the links to get your tickets here itsleeds.github.io/tds/dstp

NPT Scotland An interactive map to aid cycle planning in Scotland

Just signed-up to the #UTSG2025 conference in Dublin, 25th-27th June. Looking forward to presenting our work on transport data integration to calculate Level of Service on every road in Scotland. Thanks to colleagues, Transport Scotland + Sustrans. See you there! #NPT #geocompx

Thanks so much Brian, glad you could make it. Looking forward to putting some of those ideas into action, with guidance from you and other doers and builders 🏗️

There's an upcoming in-person talk in ITS Leeds on modelling major change for transport decarbonisation. Specifically, what would happen if 50% of road space was reallocated for active travel? Book a ticket here to out! www.ticketsource.com/institute-fo...

I'm doing a seminar in St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a week today. Looking forward to it and planning to use the nice weather as an excuse to get on my bike ☀️ 🚲 Anyone tips on Leuchars to St Andrews routes? Can do some ground-truth validation of our Network Planning Tool (NPT) also!

EPSRC DLA: Spatial interaction modelling for future transport demand simulation Project opportunity - EPSRC DLA: Spatial interaction modelling for future transport demand simulation at the University of Leeds

⚡ Excited to announce a PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds! ⚡ If you're interested in developing spatial interaction models for fast and fair decarbonisation, check it out: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2171... Please share with anyone interested 🙏

The Transport Data Minihack in ITS Leeds is underway! Great to be here developing reproducible data processing pipelines with interesting datasets to answer real-world problems. For anyone who would like to follow online see links to datasets and challenges here: itsleeds.github.io/tds/minihack...

It's been many months since I last tried out the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) design tool developed by Dustin Carlino, and I'm blown away, it's on another level 🤯 Responsive, informative, intuitive, accessible, fully open. See for yourself here: a-b-street.github.io/ltn

Je l'attendais depuis quelques années depuis son equivalent en R, geocomputation with python, une ressource open source aussi pratique que didactique. Merci aux auteurs @robinlovelace.bsky.social et les autres. py.geocompx.org

Looking forward to my inaugural lecture tomorrow 🚀 For anyone who cannot make it in person, 16:30-17:30 British Summer Time (BST) in Leeds but would like to join online, please let me know, and we can sort you out with a link to the Teams livestream. Fired up, ready to go 🔥

Exciting news: tickets for the 2-day workshop I'm doing on Data Science for Transport Planning are now available from the University of Leeds. See details here: store.leeds.ac.uk/product-cata...

Looking forward to my inaugural lecture, this Thursday 8th May. In it I will reflect on the influences that guided my journey and discussing priorities for future-proof transport planning research and practice. Still time to sign-up: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/lee...

Data Driven 2025 Presentation – Will it fit? New methods for integrating diverse datasets for transport planning ${this.parser.parseInline(e)}

I presented on network data for sustainable transport interventions at the RAC Foundation's Data Driven 2025 event today in London. Thanks for the invite Ivo and team, and to other presenters for excellent and highly policy-relevant content. Slides + links: robinlovelace.github.io/datadriven25...

Looking forward to presenting work on integrating multiple transport network datasets for network planning at GISRUK in Bristol tomorrow. For anyone interested in the topic but unable to make it in person, you can see the #reproducible slides here: robinlovelace.github.io/gisruk2025/

Welcome | Geocomputation with R Welcome | Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize and model geographic data with open source software. It is based on R, a statistical programming language that has…

If you want to go deep on geospatial data analysis check out Geocomputation with R. Now in its second edition, this book by @robinlovelace.bsky.social, @jakubnowosad.com, and Jannes Muenchow covers mapping (Chapter 9), but also has chapters on a wide range of geospatial analysis.

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Happy to say that FINALLY all the docker images in the geocompx organisation are passing, bringing you up-to-date open source software for reproducible geo research and teaching in a box 🎁Take a look at here: github.com/geocompx/doc... Suggestions welcome and have fun with these 🚀

Welcome | Geocomputation with R Welcome | Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize and model geographic data with open source software. It is based on R, a statistical programming language that has powerful...

thanks for the mention! @mnolangray.bsky.social - the #rstats / #rspatial community has done a tremendous job to open up geospatial.

Take a look here: r.geocompx.org

Some good follows on people making GIS open and accessible: @giswqs.bsky.social, @jakubnowosad.com, @robinlovelace.bsky.social

📢 Public service announcement for #rstats users and learners working with geographic data: Geocomputation with R's Binder link is working again 🎉🎉You can give it a spin at r.geocompx.org and then clicking on the "Binder" link. #DataScience #geocompx

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:

Say hello to plumber2 🎉

plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

🚀 Big news! Positron is HERE – a new data science IDE and according to my recent tests it's pretty much good to go! Packed it with powerful features and limitless extensions. ➡️ Get started today: positron.posit.co/download.html #DataScience #rstats #python #IDE #Positron

Join me for my inaugural lecture as Professor of Transport Data Science! "Data Science for Future-Proof Transport Planning" will take place on May 8, 2025, at 4:30 PM and you get get tickets here: www.ticketsource.us/whats-on/lee.... #TransportScience #OpenData

Academic collegiality and good vibes in action! Inspired by this team and looking forward to future collaborations.

Absolute pleasure, many thanks for hosting me!

That should say "Congratulations *Anastassia* and team", apologies for the typo on a Friday afternoon 😵‍💫