Greta Timaite
Greta is an early career researcher at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, University of Leeds. She holds a BA in Sociology and MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures. Greta is passionate about open, interdisciplinary research and R. For the last 6 months, she has been busy learning as much about geocomputation as possible.
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) data has the potential to facilitate bottom-up approach to transport planning which is essential for localized data-driven policy interventions. Given this, OpenInfra project is exploring the potential of OSM data in transport research with a focus on active travel. The exploration showed that currently missing data limits the applicability of OSM data. Nevertheless, we argue that the potential and relevance of OSM data can be demonstrated by recategorizing OSM data to provide more actionable insights to policy-makers. This, therefore, could encourage the uptake of open data leading to more transparent, reproducible, and participatory transport planning.