Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace@fosstodon.org Profile picture
Data scientist, transport modeller, programmer @ITSLeeds Lead Data Science @activetraveleng Geocomputation, evidence, #opensource software for good 🚀
Aug 26, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
Interested in public transit 🚌🚅⛴️ data and software development? Check out the gtfs_manager project, a prototype desktop application written in #rustlang by @maxunsted, to explore and even edit your GTFS files 🎉 A short thread... Image The project is now at MVP prototype stage and is looking for people to test it out, provide feedback, and get involved. See post on @rustlang Reddit here: reddit.com/r/rust/comment… for details.
Jan 19, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
Stoked to announce that the new #openaccess paper "Open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning" has just been published 🎉

Paper: doi.org/10.1007/s10109…
Code: github.com/Robinlovelace/…
My first ever solo-authored paper! Image It discusses the landscape of free and open tools/software for working with geographic transport datasets (thanks everyone who helped crowd-source this list). link.springer.com/article/10.100… Image
May 7, 2020 19 tweets 15 min read
Where should 'pop-up' cycleways go? We analysed data for 10 cities, 4 of which are shown below, finding that there are 'spare lanes' near city centres in all of them.

Results + interactive maps: cyipt.github.io/tempCycleways/

More: below... Methods: github.com/cyipt/tempCycl…