Pictures at a (Rail Transport) Exhibition

This talk, organised by Collaborative Reseach Foundation, is about using the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) financial year passenger travel data projected onto a shortest-path network, using the centre-line track-model.

In 2023 UK Office of Road and Rail published a new dataset that allows anyone to explore almost 1 billion journeys from every one of its more than 2,580 train stations in Great Britain, and updated this to include all journeys from 2018 to 2023.

This talk looks at using this data along with other open datasets to host a visualisation for each station, and an aggregated view of rail travel in Britain, also known as the “monster over London”.

For more information, please see the project link. If you want to hear about this, some stuff I’ve done since with five years of ORR data, and subsequent attempts at trying to make sense of it all, please come along.

The speaker:

• Will Deakin – Trains Portfolio Architect, Network Rail
  Following the success of “Jet Boy, Jet Girl (Ça Train Pour Moi)” at last year’s Leeds Digital Festival, Will is back to talk about passenger transport flow. With 25-years of being paid to work with technology, by day I am the Network Rail Trains Portfolio Architect and European Infrastructure Manager speaker at the European Agency for Railways data assurance board. At night I use data science™ to think about things like what a fully-automated European luxury high-speed rail network might look like.