Marcus Young
Researcher interested in transport geography and GIS.
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Introducing the GB Traffic Data Explorer
Visually explore DfT traffic statistics for the whole of GB from 2000-2022.
Using OS MasterMap Highways Network (Roads) with pgRouting - the easy way
Complete instructions and SQL script.
Other posts
The Station Demand Forecasting Tool
An open source automated tool to forecast rail demand for new local railway stations in Great Britain.
Tutorial on creating and querying your own multi-modal route planner
I've written an introductory tutorial covering the setup and querying of an OpenTripPlanner instance.
Using pgRouting with the OS Open Roads dataset
I have updated my SQL script that can be used to automatically prepare the OS Open Roads dataset for use with pgRouting
Railway station choice modelling: a review
My paper, a review of previous railway station choice modelling research, has just been published in Transport Reviews.
Recent papers presented at two academic conferences
It has been a busy start to the year as I've presented papers at two academic conferences - UTSG and GISRUK.
Using R, PostGIS and pgRouting to generate network buffers
An R script to automatically generate drive distance or drive time buffers for a given set of starting nodes using pgRouting
Creating catchment area polygons using R and PgRouting
An R script to automatically generate multiple catchment area polygons using R, PostGIS and pgRouting.
Preparing the OS Open Roads dataset for use with pgRouting
Advice on preparing the OS Open Roads dataset for use with pgRouting and a SQL script to automate the process