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Where to spend £1.4bn: urban transport, or Stonehenge?

Jenny Raggett
03 February 2017
Google Maps screenshots with live traffic data show that the main congestion problems in the South West are in the urban areas, rather than at Stonehenge (top), says Jenny Raggett. Transport spending should be concentrated in the cities too, she says
Google Maps screenshots with live traffic data show that the main congestion problems in the South West are in the urban areas, rather than at Stonehenge (top), says Jenny Raggett. Transport spending should be concentrated in the cities too, she says

 

I read with interest the front-page article ‘Dump legacy model tools’ (LTT 20 Jan), which looked at how we might use Big Data to inform transport decisions rather than put the emphasis on complex transport modelling. I have for some months been using Google Traffic data, via Google Maps, to analyse the way we use the road network and how people travel around during the peak period. Emanating from locational data from mobile phones, Google Traffic maps show fast and slow traffic on...

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