Research project

Implementation of an Active Travel Geospatial Data framework with government agencies

Project overview

This concept and relationship development project worked with Hampshire County Council’s Transport team to pilot the implementation of potential approaches for integrating Highway Authority data on active travel infrastructure with the active travel geospatial data framework developed as part of the RATIN project and thereby with other datasets which have been linked to the framework during RATIN, such as:

  • pavement width data
  • topological networks based on Ordnance Survey data
  • crowd-sourced data on active travel trip routing.

The aim was that data integration would help provide users of the dataset (e.g. highway authorities, active travel users and transport planners) with a coherent, complete and comprehensive attributed network that will support a wide range of end-user applications.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems
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Other researchers

Dr Marcus Young PhD

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Application of GIS methods and techniques to research relating to public transport and active travel.
  • Development of open source tools for transport planning applications, for example the Station Demand Forecasting Tool and the GB Traffic Data Explorer.
  • Rail demand modelling and appraisal with a focus on developing improved aggregate models to forecast demand for new railway stations.
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Research outputs