"We believe in love" 🤢 People are so sick of this US hypocrisy.. #worldcup
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Michael Szell
@mszll@datasci.social
mastodon 4.7.3Human-centric #geospatial #DataScience 🚶🚲 Sustainable #mobility #networks, in #Copenhagen
Created: https://datasci.social, https://bikenetkit.org, https://whatthestreet.com, @nerdsitu@datasci.social, https://pardus.at. searchable
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Invisible walls: how pedestrians navigate around social interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20876
It's nice to work hard on things in silence, and imagine they could become really useful someday.. https://docs.bikenetkit.org/GrowBikeNet/usage_05_custom_data_imports/
#BikeNetKit
Very nice new tool showing #bike routes in #Austria with lots of configurability: https://radatlas.at/
There is a family-friendly option, but there isn't more than a handful of routes suited for families with small children. In other countries you have a real network with thousands of options, see now Denmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07029
Of course Austria has *some* mountains, but it's no excuse to have so few routes there. Anyway, nice tool!
https://datasci.social/ now runs the latest Mastodon v4.6.0 🎉
Also updated the CSS (Bird UI), apologies if it looked a bit funky in the last hours. #mastoadmin
Why Your City Feels Built For Cars, Not People
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2026/07/24/why-your-city-feels-built-for-cars-not-people/
Very happy this paper is published! Great+deep work led by Clément Sebastiao. We systematically study strategies to grow a transport network step by step - motivated by #bicycle networks which need to be functional as soon as possible.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-026-00792-5
RE: @liesvanrompaey@flipping.rocks
They all feel a bit weird, but great to see zero cars on them and many people walking or active in the public, several cycling. Will the EU take this as a vision to implement?
On the Effects of Decentralized Moderation on Network Robustness and Information Diffusion in Mastodon [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.27149
Download the slides of my #cycling #mobility #GISRUK talks today here:
LoopBikeNet: https://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2026qac.pdf
BikeNetKit: https://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2026bdo.pdf
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A bicycle node network has a wayfinding system of numbered nodes for recreational #cycling, on a regional/national scale. We have previously shown on https://bikenetwork.dk/ the low bikeability in #Denmark outside of cities, now improved by the new bicycle node network.
We went on a bike ride with #AOC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-jM1SuZR0
Why didn’t the senior citizen cross the road? Gait speed in community-dwelling older adults with mobility limitations relative to pedestrian crossing times
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/12/afaf345/8371949
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Together with our previous #qgis BikeNodePlanner tool our work has initiated an #opensource ecosystem for data-driven design and assessment of regional bicycle node networks.
Code: https://github.com/mszell/bikenwloops
Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19222642
With @anavybor@datasci.social @ane@mapstodon.space Thx to DKNT! Funded by https://www.just-streets.eu/
This is getting ugly for France.. #worldcup
After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned+submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/arxivsubmission.md
Thanks to the amazing Python packages bib_optimizer and arxiv_latex_cleaner.
Your daily dose of #motonormativity : To report a stolen e-bike battery to the Danish police, you have to select the category "Tools / number plate / car parts / fuel / electricity". I wonder how many battery thefts go un/misreported because people don't click through all categories.
"For some reason, people who like bikes are also people who like data" - guilty as charged 🙋 #agit2026
BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791292
Nice. Might arxiv become a "seal of quality" for published papers? That is, if a published paper hasn't gone through arxiv, it's less reliable? (Might already have been the case, but this makes it explicit)
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Now we developed the loop census method, which lists each node's loops (cycles) up to day-trip length. We find that long-range cyclists can access most of the country with many choices, but families with small children can not - which could however be overcome by e-bikes.
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943
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@grischard@en.osm.town Just the street network - to explore potential bicycle network scenarios.
URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10124
ITF: Vision-Led Transport Planning: A guide for policy makers
https://www.itf-oecd.org/vision-led-transport-planning-guide-policy-makers
Achieving energy independence and affordable transport for all: 10 measures to leverage cycling
https://www.ecf.com/en/news/cycling-manifesto-energy-independence-affordable-transport/
https://share.joinmastodon.org is a tool that allows you to put a "Share to Mastodon" button on your website.
[g.subgraph(c).copy() for c in sorted(nx.connected_components(g), key=lambda c: sum([l[-1] for l in g.subgraph(c).copy().edges.data('length')]), reverse=True)]
Finally came up with this one line of code.. it gives me #network components ordered by total link length. Is this pythonic? 😅 :networkx:
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@dansup@mastodon.social cool initiative! Though I tried adding my account, and it is unfortunately broken: Invalid account url
I took this joke diagnostic "German or Autistic": https://german.millermanschool.com/
Turns out I am both, except instead of German I'm apparently Austrian. And I am indeed Austrian. 😲
Vienna’s public transport is the envy of the world – so why can’t it ditch cars?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/vienna-public-transport-tram-network-ditch-cars
Public transport in the 15-minute city
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00699
Car Dependency in Urban Accessibility
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01019
Answering the dilemma of cycle lane versus shared space planning through an agent-based simulation experiment and accessibility equity analysis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-026-00200-8
Does someone here know why #shields.io is blocking github? I am trying to create an #endpoint #badge on #github like so: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://gist.github.com/mszell/fa90e1bc9a90719944b41f6af03ced49/raw/covbadge.json
The url https://gist.github.com/mszell/fa90e1bc9a90719944b41f6af03ced49/raw/covbadge.json is correct, but shields.io blocks the domain, and I don't understand why. I'm new to this, maybe I just overlook something stupid?
Nice!
Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00108
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@cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social @anavybor@datasci.social @ane@mapstodon.space Thx, yes, that is discussed in Supplementary Note 5.
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@punkan @notjustbikes @TheWarOnCars Where exactly in Copenhagen? Is this by Rådet for Sikker Trafik?
After wasting so much time with writing grants you'd hope it mattered, but seems it doesn't: **Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment**
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-04968-7
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@martinfleis @underdarkGIS I am curious what definitions are there for these terms and to distinguish them? I always thought of geosds as a strict subset of sds, but maybe people have different ideas? like more applied versus theoretical?
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@dansup@mastodon.social now I get Missing #fedi22 tag
Better to test features before deployment