A research trip to Girona

This presentation puts a 1 month study trip to Girona, to the SIGTE GIS department, in context. Audio and a little context to accompany the slides can be found here: http://robinlovelace.net/%5B%22presentation%22%5D/2014/03/13/energy-geo-girona-presentation.html

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1. An introduction to my research and the Leeds School of Geography as part of a 1 month study exchange at SIGTE, University of Girona Energy, transport and geography by Robin Lovelace, March 2014, Girona About me Research interests My PhD research Leeds School of Geog. and future work
2. Where I'm coming from
3. Where I've been (UK)
4. Erasmus year in Salamanca Above: view from my 'piso' and where I leaned Castilian Below: a book that heavily influenced my thinking
5. 1 Yr MSc in Environmental Science (York), 4 yr PhD in Energy Futures (Sheffield) • Growing interest in behaviour + environment • Energy: root of many problems http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/6396
6. Research interests E.g. see Hopkins (2013), Berners-Lee and Clarke (2013) Environmental problems Climate change Recession Energy
7. Publication on energy costs of modal shift (no spatial analysis)
8. Conceptualising energy costs of transport After Smil (1993)
9. Traditional time-series analysis Here
10. The big picture!
11. My PhD research: Geography of transport energy use
12. The method: spatial microsimulation
13. Key finding: energy use varies!
16. Individual-level variability
17. Inequalities within areas
19. Going Dutch: aggregate-level results (Yorkshire and the Humber)
20. National-level comparisons Average energy costs per one way trip to work in English regions (2001) and Dutch provinces (2010)
21. Going Finnish
22. Going Finnish results
23. Going Dutch: individual-level results (South Yorkshire)
24. Further methodological work Spatial microsimulation applied to transport modelling problems. See Lovelace et al. (2014)
25. Application to the energy crisis Trips vs distance vs energy use measures of transport system performance. See Lovelace and Philips (2014).
26. Current research • "Volunteered Geographical Information" (Goodchild 2008) to inform geographical models • Testing of the "iterative proportional fitting" algorithm (IPF) for geographical applications • International study of the energy costs of commuting • Analysis of accident data for cyclists and the spatial distribution of perceptions of risk • Analysis of the UK's cycle network using Open Street Map • Twitter data to understand response to Hurricane Sandy
27. E.g. of Current research: Twitter to calibrate SIM
28. Future research: I'm torn Methods Applications
29. Teaching materials • Book chapter on spatial data visualisation in R. • Comprehensive tutorial on making maps in R. • Upcoming course on spatial microsimulation. • Tutorial on import + analysis of OSM data.
30. Software Preference for open source: ethics + performance Software I use • R for data analysis • QGIS, PostGIS + R for GIS • Many command line Linux tools (osmosis, grep) • LaTeX, Markdown and GitHub for dissemination Things I'm learning • Web mapping (Leaflet, OpenLayers, .js) • GeoNode + GeoServer. Database management
31. Research @ Leeds SoG Recently won a large funding grant from the ESRC to start the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) - Multimillion pound project on using 'big data' from companies to inform research + policy As part of TALISMAN, my role is to develop new methods (why I'm here), apply them, and teach We have a strong research in 'geocomputation' Spatial Interaction modelling, simulation, GIS
32. An example of our work at Leeds: agent based model simulating petrol prices in Scotland, by Heppenstall et al. (2013)
33. My work here at Girona • 'Attenended' UNIGIS web mapping course and spatial database course online. • Played around with web maps – Map for a sailing ship – Comparison of web mapping APIs – Inspiring colleagues in the art of web maps • Trying to set up GeoNode (finding this hard!) • Began analysis of OSM data • Writing up papers!
34. References Goodchild, M. F. (2007). Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69(4). Heppenstall, A. J., Harland, K., Ross, A. N., & Olner, D. (2013). Simulating Spatial Dynamics and Processes in a Retail Gasoline Market: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. Transactions in GIS, 17(5). Lovelace, R. et al. (2011). Assessing the energy implications of replacing car trips with bicycle trips in Sheffield, UK. Energy Policy, 39(4). Lovelace, R., & Ballas, D. (2013). “Truncate, replicate, sample”: A method for creating integer weights for spatial microsimulation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 41, 1–11. Lovelace, R., Ballas, D., & Watson, M. (2014). A spatial microsimulation approach for the analysis of commuter patterns: from individual to regional levels. Journal of Transport Geography, 34(0), 282–296. Lovelace, R., & Philips, I. (2014). The “oil vulnerability” of commuter patterns: A case study from Yorkshire and the Humber, UK. Geoforum, 51(0), 169–182. Rockstrom, J et al. (2009). A safe operating space for humanity. Nature, 461(7263). Smil, V. (2008). Energy in nature and society. MIT. Smil, V. (1993). Global ecology: environmental change and social flexibility. Routledge.