Big data – the big issue of the day

Rik Thomas and Lee Baker report from LTT’s Modelling World 2012 on the latest thoughts of the UK’s transport modelling fraternity

The idea that the advent of ‘big data’, meaning data sources such as people’s mobile phones, travel smartcards and so on, will fundamentally transform the way in which transport models work, was hotly debated at the Modelling World event.

Academic Joan Serras from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, suggested that it might. “There is at present a surge of big data which is providing a starting point to get to help us get to grips with...

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