Seeing Cities Through Big Data

14.10.2016

Englisch

9783319409009

Springer International Publishing

Springer Geography

Nein

559

Gebundene Ausgabe

Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics

Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah is Ch2M Chair of Transportation and Professor of Urban Studies in the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the founding Director of the Urban Big Data Centre, a consortium of seven universities funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Prior to current position, she was Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. She started her career as a postdoctoral researcher in the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with a fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS). Her research interests are in smart, socially-just and sustainable transportation, and on theories and methods explaining transportation policies and traveler behaviour. Her work has examined "smart" public transportation, bicycle and pedestrian active transportation, as well as in connected/collaborative/shared transportation systems. Vonu’s research has considered the needs of a wide spectrum of travelers including low-wage workers, seniors, persons with disabilities and young adults and her work links social equity and human capital considerations to the labour market, safety, well-being and other outcomes experienced by travelers. She is more broadly interested in Urban Informatics or the analytics of emerging sources of data to understand complex urban problems, and the political economy surrounding many novel forms of data. Such analytics have significant potential to improve livability, learning and engagement in cities and to bring about urban planning, policy and business innovations. Aside from numerous journal articles in these areas, her recent book “Transportation and Information: Trends in Technology and Policy” discusses emerging ICT trends in smart mobility systems. She is currently a European Commission Marie Curie fellow.

Big Data, Urban Informatics, Urban Science, Urban Big Data, Urban Data Management, Data Democracy, Big Data Workshop, Urban Planning, Open Urban Data, urban geography and urbanism, Environmental Geography

JHB - Soziologie JBSD - Städte, Stadtgemeinden TNH - Verkehrsingenieurwesen, Verkehrsplanung RGB - Physische Geographie und Topographie UNF - Data Mining UYQE - Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme

235 mm

15.5 cm