The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Professor Eddie Wilson (University of Bristol, UK)
to lead a seminar entitled
Techniques for inferring mileage from the Department for Transport's MOT data set
to be held
Wednesday 25th March 2015 @ 17:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 163, Skempton (Civil Eng.) Building, Imperial College London
Abstract
My main purpose in this talk is try and convey a sense of my enthusiasm for mathematical modelling generally and how I've come to use it in a range of transport applications. For concreteness, I am going to talk in particular about work I have been doing on EPSRC grant EP/K000438/1 (PI: Jillian Anable, Aberdeen) where we are using the DfT's MOT data to estimate mileage totals and study how they are broken down across the population in various different ways. Embedded inside this practical problem is a whole set of miniature mathematical puzzles and challenges which are quite particular to the problem area itself, and one wider question which is rather deeper and more general: whether it is possible (and how) to convert usage data that is low-resolution in time but high-resolution in individuals to knowledge that is high-resolution in time but only expressed at a population level.
About the Speakers
Eddie Wilson is Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems at the University of Bristol, and head of the Department of Engineering Mathematics. Previously (2010-2012) he was Professor of Modelling and Simulation at the Transportation Research Group in Southampton. He is an applied mathematician by background, but gravitated towards transport applications when he held an EPSRC advanced fellowship (2007-2012) in highway traffic modelling.
The Following CTS Seminar
Mr Lorenzo Davoli (Umea Institute of Design, Italy) will be leading a seminar titled "Trojans & Drones: Design Explorations of Community Driven, Last-mile Distribution Solutions" at Imperial College London on Tuesday 31 March @ 16:00.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties.
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