3 minutes ago, Tom Hughes said:

@Mark Birkin you mention the UK Geospatial Strategy and you highlight part of the mission is to enable innovation. Earlier in this series we had a talk from @Neil from the Geospatial Commission looking at the pilot phase of the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR). Part of Neil’s t…

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5 minutes ago, Steven Zhang said:

Hi @Mark Birkin , thanks for the informative and yet high-level pesentation about the Digital Twin for UK population. I am gald to hear that real-time analaysis is on top of your list. Compared to real-time data, the census data has been a traditional source of social-demographic information. Can y…

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5 minutes ago, Richard Bradley said:

Hi Mark, the welfare benefits are largely captured through travel cost savings, which, in a perfect economy, includes capturing associated secondary benefits.  However, there are wider benefits associated with economic failures in an imperfect economy and with agglomeration effects.  These t…

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5 minutes ago, Richard Bradley said:

Hi Mark, at Transport for the North we were given the job to disrupt the analytical status quo and understand how investment decisions can be made more equitable.  We have developed the Analytical Framework to achieve this, supported by evidence on why decisions may appear unfair.  This a…

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Thanks Richard, that’s an interesting question and I must admit I have a tendency to be suspicious of overambitious approaches (boiling the ocean”?!) but very much take your point about a level playing field.  We do have a very open approach to the science of DTs – for example, outputs from the SPENSER model I discuss are already available…

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