Bousfield Urban accessibility R Crash Course

Summary:

Routing and accessibility analyses are increasingly used in urban and transport research and planning. In this workshop, you will learn how to estimate travel time matrices and perform accessibility analyzes in multimodal transport networks using the R programming language. The workshop will also show how to measure accessibility poverty and inequality, and illustrate how to assess the accessibility impacts of transportation projects from a transportation equity perspective. The course is based on the book “Introduction to urban accessibility: a practical guide with R”, available online at https://ipeagit.github.io/intro_access_book/.

Computational requirements:

To follow the workshop, you should bring your laptop with the following programs installed on it. More information here.

· R and RStudio

· (optional) Java Development Kit (JDK)

*** These should be installed *before* the workshop

Reading material:

• Online book “Introduction to urban accessibility a practical guide with R” https://ipeagit.github.io/intro_access_book/ (Chapters 3 and 6)

• Paper of the {r5r} package https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.21262

• Website and documentation of the {r5r} package https://ipeagit.github.io/r5r/

• Website and documentation of the {accessibility} package https://ipeagit.github.io/accessibility/

Instructor:

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto

Head of Data Science

Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Brazil Personal website: https://www.urbandemographics.org/about/

Short bio of the instructor:

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. He is also a visiting professor (Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning) at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto (2024-2025). 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.