Category Archives: Smart Cities

Disruption in Large Transit Systems

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Michael Batty

Jon Reades and myself gave a talk at ECCS on how we are using our Oyster Card data to simulate disruptions to the London tube system. Added Richard Milton’s real time tube and bus data and presented our ideas at … Continue reading →

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The Future Cities Lab

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Michael Batty

Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading →

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The Prototypical Smart City

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Michael Batty

Welcome to Singapore, The Intelligent Island. No not the sign greeting you at Changi when you land now but the sign back in 1989 which we show to the left. For the last 25 years, Singapore has been in the … Continue reading →

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