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AGILE CONFERENCE 2024 - Spatial Data Science for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities
Join our online stream of this keynote talk of AGILE Conference 2024
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Thursday 06 June 2024
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Venue: Online
Category: Conferences, Academic events
Speaker: Dr. Rafael H. M. Pereira
In this presentation, I will give an overview of my research at the intersection of spatial data science, urban analytics and accessibility, and sustainable mobility. Specifically, I will showcase work related to the development of open data science tools and methods for transportation network modeling used to examine spatial accessibility, energy use and the environmental performance of urban mobility systems. These tools contribute to research and planning by aiding researchers, students, and practitioners in effectively handling large-scale geospatial data for the examination of urban transportation networks and mobility futures. I will give particular attention to two projects related to: (1) a new scalable computational model to estimate public transport emissions at high spatial and temporal resolutions; and (2) recent developments of powerful multimodal routing models and their contribution to the analysis of socioeconomic and spatial inequalities in access to opportunities. At the end, I will discuss some of the advantages and limitations of these tools and models, reflecting on new research avenues for using spatial data science for sustainable and inclusive cities.
Bio: Rafael H. M. Pereira is a senior researcher in the fields of urban analytics, spatial data science and transport studies at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Brazil, where he leads the Data Science team. His research looks broadly at how urban policies and technologies shape the spatial organization of cities, human mobility as well as their impacts on social and health inequalities. Some of his key contributions to the fields of urban analytics and planning involve the development of new methods and open-source computational tools to the study of urban systems and transportation networks. These contributions emerge from substantive interests around social justice and sustainability issues in urban development, with particular focus on transportation equity and inequalities in access to opportunities, and the environmental impacts of built environments and mobility patterns. With a background in Sociology and Demography, Dr. Pereira obtained his PhD in Geography from the Transport Studies Unit at Oxford University.
Researchers, developers, lecturers, students, and practitioners in all facets of Geo-Information Science and Technology are cordially invited to the conference, to present ongoing research, showcase products, network with colleagues from Europe and the rest of the world, and find out about the latest developments in the field.
This is the annual conference for the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. This year’s conference theme “Geographic Information Science for a Sustainable Future” aims to explore the critical role of geographic information science in shaping a sustainable future. The conference will be hosted at the University of Glasgow from the 4th June - 7th June 2024. Keynote talks will be streamed online for those not attending the conference.