Gary Nulty, Streetwise
With video cameras replacing people on most count surveys over the past decade or so, the lag between fieldwork and final results has increased as... continue

Lenny Winsel
Traditionally urban space design has always favoured vehicle movement over pedestrian movement and the need for high quality transportation... continue

Lána Pennycook
Sydney is Australia’s largest and most densely populated city, with a population of 4.6 million. The city’s central business district... continue

Erik de Romph
Companies such as TomTom possess enormous databases with vehicle-movements based on GPS data to predict traffic jams in real time and, with the... continue

Paul O’Neill
Over the past 12 months, I have visited over 100 offices around the UK, Indo-Asia and the Middle East presenting to clients, local authorities and... continue

Peter Debney
How do people navigate through a building, a train station or an airport? What happens when you need to evacuate an area, or if a number of exits... continue

Lorenzo Meschini, and Thomas Otterstätter and Johannes Schlaich from PTV Group
Traffic managers know from experience what traffic is going to be like during a specific time and day of the week and can therefore handle incidents... continue

The Local Government Technical Advisors Group is proposing uniting the group with ADEPT (the Association of Directors of Environment, economy,... continue

Guildford Borough Council has invited tenders for a  transport study of the area that will use a technique known as... continue

Sílvio Rogério Tôrres, SPTrans
Brazilian cities are celebrated for their excellent bus services and São Paulo is no exception. The city has a complex surface transit network... continue

Tom Van Vuren
As a modeller I am used to being challenged by technology, and I’m not just talking about getting used to Windows 8. Newer computers enabling... continue

Rik Thomas, Editor
Reading through the articles in this data and modelling supplement, one thing soon becomes abundantly clear – the days when modellers were... continue

The DfT is believed to be planning to revise its road traffic forecasts for London, having conceded that the currently predicted growth is... continue

Your report about TfL trying to model cycling crossed with my last about excuses for non-action on cycling (“TfL revamps traffic modelling to... continue

The City of York Council has launched three new bus and travel apps, YorkLIVE, Bus York and York Park & Ride. YorkLIVE provides live traffic and... continue

The TRICS 7 system redesign has been given the formal go-ahead by the TRICS Consortium. The development of the latest version of TRICS, which is the... continue

ELGIN has entered into an agreement with Nokia to provide data on over two million road works to its smartphone and sat-nav users. Nokia has chosen... continue

Transport for London has issued a tender for “software application/tools that will allow traffic modelling at the area-wide, micro-simulation,... continue

Satellite navigation service provider Navevo has launched what it claims is the world’s first ‘cyclist alert’ safety feature as... continue

Transport for London is refining its traffic modelling to improve the representation of cycling and pedestrian behaviour. “Until recently,... continue