Regional Studies, Regional Science Annual Lecture 2021: "Urban Mobility and Street Network Science”

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Speaker: Geoff Boeing, University of Southern California, USA

Chair: Franziska Sielker University of Cambridge, UK

Transportation networks underpin urban mobility. In turn, spatial network analysis has emerged as an important frontier in urban informatics as more data are collected about transportation networks’ form and utilization. However, the tools to model and analyze these networks are too often inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This talk discusses some of the foundations and recent trends in this field, highlighting the growing connections between urban data science, network science, and transportation planning. It argues for open-source software and reusable computational data science as keys to both link and advance these disciplines for better science and practice.