"The idea of framing the day around the distinction between big data and traditional modelling was excellent and highly thought-provoking. Furthermore, the idea of including visualisation and visioning was excellent, and very refreshing for a modelling event" Paul Timms, ITS Leeds: Delegate from Modelling World 2012
"The presentations were varied and focused on new challenges raising interesting ideas and stimulating discussions. It is good to have a range of both academics and practitioners. Modelling World is well organised and significant thought is put to the programme." Bryan Whittaker, URS: Delegate from Modelling World 2011
6 June
India Room
John Major Room
Executive Double Box 52/53
England Suite
09.00
Registration opens in the main England Suite exhibition area
Tea & Coffee served
09.30
Morning plenary: Are forecasts right or wrong?
Chair: Tom Van Vuren, Divisional Director, Mott MacDonald and Chair, Modelling World Programme Committee
Modelling for smart cities: Are our models irrelevant and, if so, what we can do about it?
Professor John Polak, Chairman, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College, London
Olympic modelling: What worked well, and how to identify alternatives when the models were inaccurate
Vladimir Vorotovic, Traffic Modelling Specialist, TfL
John Green, Traffic Modelling Specialist, TfL
Modelling complexity: What we've learned about social, organisational and behavioural models and the National Transport Systems Modelling Facility
Dr Daniel Ruiz, Chief Operating Officer, Transport Systems Catapult
11.00
Morning tea and coffee served in the England Suite exhibition area
11.30
Choose 1 of 4
Models to support decision making: closing the gap between what we've got and what we need
Chair: Tom Van Vuren, Mott MacDonald
A proportionate local appraisal: the challenge for modelling
David Bull, Director of Planning and Transportation, Thurrock Council
Supporting local decision-making and proportionality of assessment
John Collins, Head of Investment and Regulatory Scrutiny, Local Economics, DfT
Local, sub-regional and regional models of the economic impact of transport schemes
Tom Worsley, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
What is not in our models? Are we modelling what we can, not what we should?
Chair: Josep Maria Aymami, TSS-Transport Simulation Systems
The GB Freight Model: how it is used to forecast rail freight and address policy issues such as road pricing
Chris Wright, Senior Consultant, MDS Transmodal
New Methods for Complex Systems Validation
Eddie Wilson, Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems, University of Bristol
What do we really value and how do we model it?
Keith Buchan, Director, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transport Research Unit (MTRU)
Smart cities
Chair, Rod Fletcher, Managing Director, Landor LINKS
How can we use abundant data to model and understand the way our cities and societies work?
Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick, Lecturer, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Living data: creating the analytic engines and presentation tools to support better city-wide decision-making
Ross Burton, Sustainable Transport Planning Officer, Peterborough DNA, Future Cities Demonstrator team
Optimising a demand responsive city transport fleet
Andrew Potter, Regional Director and Sheng Peng, Team Leader, Parsons Brinkerhoff
How data is shaping smarter transport delivery
Chris Cooper, lead Architect for Smarter Cities in the UK, IBM Smarter Cities team
Transport Systems Catapult workshop
Increasing mobility: integration of systems, behaviours and drivers across the national transport system
The Transport Systems Catapult workshop will explore the concept of a National Transport Systems Modelling Facility (NTSM).
The workshop will introduce the Transport Systems Catapult vision for a facility through which discrete transport models can be integrated.
In an interactive session, attendees will share the challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of transport models used in the UK, across all modes, scales and focus areas(from wide scale economic models to local behavioural models). Outputs will be disseminated soon after the workshop.
Workshop run by Dr Daniel Ruiz, Chief Operating Officer, Transport Systems Catapult
13.15
Lunch served in the main England Suite exhibition area
14.30
Choose 1 of 4
Supporting local decision-making: tools
Chair: Tom Van Vuren, Mott MacDonald
Synthetic transport modelling: a 'low tech' approach with many applications in a changing world
Shaleen Srivastava, Technical Director, Jacobs UK
Simulating behavioural decisions for spatial design: demonstrating spatial models that simulate both designers' decisions and user experiences
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design Research, Aedas
Identifying and mapping urban movement, walking and cycling patterns: the evidence base for developing infrastructure
Max Martinez, Associate Director, Space Syntax
Transport forecasting
Chair: Paul O'Neill, Managing Director, Intelligent Data
Traffic forecasting - a retrospective view
Boris Johansson, Technical Director, SIAS
Real-time traffic forecasting: innovative methodologies and experiences
Ing. Lorenzo Meschini, SISTeMA srl, PTV Group and Prof Guido Gentile, University of Rome La Sapienza
Modelling route choice and traffic control: latest methods and future developments
Mike Smith, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of York
Systems smart v people smart
ITS in interurban traffic: Predictive modelling for integrated corridor managemen
Josep M. Aymam, TSS-Transport Simulation Systems
Matthew Juckes, TSS-Transport Simulation Systems
Alex Torday, TSS-Transport Simulation Systems
Using human interaction to improve transport models
Dr Ben Waterson, University of Southampton
Health, Safety, and Commercial Gain - the advantages of pedestrian modelling
Peter Debney, Senior Consultant, Oasys Software
Shared Space Modelling using an Urban Analytics Framework (UAF): three UK case studies on efficiency and safety within the principles of living streets
Responses to a changing market: new business models for service and software development and usage
Chair: David Simmononds, David Simmonds Consultancy
Chair's introduction, plus a series of Pecha Kucha sessions and discussion, including:
Challenging existing business models. A new generation of 'open' business models based on data
Jonathan Raper, Founder and Managing Director, Placr
Innovating existing business models: better forecasting through cloud computing
Alberto Brignone, Regional Director, Citilabs
Modelling more - and more efficiently
Gordon Duncan, Director, Azalient
Doing more with less: new approaches to new challenges
Nadia Feddo, TSS-Transport Simulation Systems
BIM in the transport sector
Mike Hutt, Savoy Computing
Crowdsourcing: interactive approaches to data and analysis
various speakers
If you would like to present in this session contact
16.00
Afternoon tea and coffee served in the England Suite exhibition area
16.30
Afternoon plenary
The day ends with a challenging debate: how do we model effectively for cycling investment?
Chair: Andrew Forster, Editor, Local Transport Today
Dr David Metz, Visiting Professor, Centre for Transport Studies, University College London
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*Published programme subject to change. Delegate Bookings subject to payment terms. Early booking discount is not valid in conjunction with any other offer.
The 8th annual Modelling World conference and exhibition
New challenges, new technologies, smarter decision-support
