![]() Miller and Shaw (2015), writing in Geography Compass, recently discussed GIS-T (GIS for Transportation), providing an update update on their previous work from 2001. Source: Rgoogin at the English language Wikipedia [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( ), GFDL ( ), from Wikimedia Commons. This post considers GIS in transport planning. GIS can be used across an enormous range of research from natural disaster management and monitoring deforestation, to biodiversity science and geomorphology. ![]() It refers to an array of processing and analysis techniques that use spatial data and theory (see the QGIS introduction to GIS online). ‘GIS’, or ‘Geographic Information Systems’, is now ubiquitous in geographical research and beyond. Environmentally, of course, pollutants are also a significant problem, posing risks to both the natural world and human health. Drivers on a thirty minute commute (with no traffic) in Istanbul, Mexico City, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Bucharest, and Recife (Brazil) could expect to spend more than 100 hours a year in gridlock that’s over 4 days a year just sitting in a car stationary in traffic! The sheer volume of waste that traffic causes (fuel, money, time) has hugely negative effects on the environment, economy, and human wellbeing. Indeed, Statista (with TomTom data) recently released a graphic that identifies the world’s worst cities for gridlock (also see: IB Times, Forbes). It is something that people the world over can relate to. They are often the result of rapid urban expansion around city centres that were simply not designed with such volumes of traffic in mind. I am of course referring to the traffic jam. We have all been there, haven’t we? Powerlessly sitting in a vehicle amidst of a sea of pollutants. “ It is not hyperbole to state that we are witnessing a revolution in the human sciences … fuelled by a stunning advancement in capabilities to capture, store and process data, as well as communicate information and knowledge derived from these data” ( Miller and Shaw, 2015 p.
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