DIME Transport Training

Background

This material was developed by the DIME ieConnect and DIME Analytics teams as an introduction to GIS for transportation analysis.

Training content

• 1 - Introduction to R

  • Quick introduction to R syntax, objects, and classes. For a more thorough introduction to R, see this course developed by DIME Analytics.

• 2 - Introduction to GIS

  • Loading and viewing spatial data, static maps, interactive maps

• 3 - Spatial Operations

  • Spatial operations applied on one dataset, spatial operations applied on multiple datasets

• 4 - Routing and Accessibility

  • Travel time, Isochrones

Additional Resources

• sf cheat sheet
• Geocomputation with R
• Spatial Data Science: With Applications in R
• R for transport planning

Useful R Packages

• blackmarbler Use nighttime lights data from NASA's Black Marble
• googletraffic Create Georeferenced Traffic Data from the Google Maps Javascript API
• mapboxapi R package that interfaces with Mapbox web services APIs
• osmdata Access OpenStreetMap data
• osrm Interface Between R and the OpenStreetMap-Based Routing Service OSRM
• stplanr Sustainable transport planning with R