Publications

Selected Publications

Total citations as of April 2025:

Key Papers

Lovelace, R. (2024). Open source tools for transport planning. Journal of Transport Geography.

Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., & Woodcock, J.** (2017). The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An Open Source Online System for Sustainable Transport Planning. Environmental Planning B.

Lovelace, R., & Dumont, S. (2016). Spatial Microsimulation with R. CRC Press.

Recent Publications

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Searchable Publications Index

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Year Title Authors Venue Type
  Podcast: How can we provide evidence to support cycle infrastructure investment? Robin Lovelace, Adam Kirkup    
2026 Spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data Egor Kotov, Eugeni Vidal-Tortosa, Oliva G. Cantú-Ros, Javier Burrieza-Galán, Ricardo Herranz, Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, Robin Lovelace Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science Journal Article
2023 Contraflows and cycling safety: Evidence from 22 years of data involving 508 one-way streets Caroline Tait, Roger Beecham, Robin Lovelace, Stuart Barber Accident Analysis & Prevention Journal Article
2022 Severe and Fatal Cycling Crash Injury in Britain: Time to Make Urban Cycling Safer Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Stephen Turrell, Gerardo Zavala Gomez, Caroline Tait, Robin Lovelace Journal of Urban Health Journal Article
2022 OSM for sustainable transport planning Greta Timaite, James Hulse, Robin Lovelace Roceedings of the Academic Track at State of the Map 2022 Conference Paper
2022 Multivariate hierarchical analysis of car crashes data considering a spatial network lattice Andrea Gilardi, Jorge Mateu, Riccardo Borgoni, Robin Lovelace Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) Journal Article
2022 Jittering: A Computationally Efficient Method for Generating Realistic Route Networks from Origin-Destination Data Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino Findings Journal Article
2022 Is cycling infrastructure in London safe and equitable? Evidence from the cycling infrastructure database Caroline Tait, Roger Beecham, Robin Lovelace, Stuart Barber Journal of Transport & Health Journal Article
2022 Exploring jittering and routing options for converting origin-destination data into route networks: Towards accurate estimates of movement at the street level Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino   Journal Article
2022 ClockBoard: A zoning system for urban analysis Robin Lovelace, Martijn Tennekes, Dustin Carlino Journal of Spatial Information Science Journal Article
2022 Assessing methods for generating route networks from origin-destionation data: Jittering, routing, and visualisation Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlin, Roger Beecham    
2022 Active Travel Oriented Development: Assessing the suitability of sites for new homes Joseph Talbot, Martin Lucas-Smith, Andrew Speakman, Megan Streb, Simon Nuttall, Dustin Carlino, Patrick Johansson, Nathanael Sheehan, Nikée Groot, Robin Lovelace European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research Journal Article
2022 A/B Street Dustin Carlino, Yuwen Li, Michael Kirk, Mateusz Konieczny, Gedalia Kott, Bruce, Javed Nissar, Trevor Nederlof, Vinzent Steinberg, Robin Lovelace, Marcel Dejean, Orestis, Rémi Lauzier, Sam, Andrew Wei, Brian Lewis, Christopher Schmidt, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Filip Czaplicki, Fullstop000, Jeff Raymakers, Jeremias Volker, Kyle Huston, Lorenz Schmid, Max Shenfield, Nick Schimek, Tim Newsome, Tobias, Andi, moo Zenodo  
2022 A Framework for Inserting Visually Supported Inferences into Geographical Analysis Workflow: Application to Road Safety Research Roger Beecham, Robin Lovelace Geographical Analysis Journal Article
2021 Socioeconomic inequalities in cycling safety: An analysis of cycling injury risk by residential deprivation level in England Eugeni Vidal Tortosa, Robin Lovelace, Eva Heinen, Richard P. Mann Journal of Transport & Health Journal Article
2021 Infrastructure is not enough: Interactions between the environment, socioeconomic disadvantage and cycling participation in England Eugeni Vidal Tortosa, R. Lovelace, E. Heinen, R. P. Mann Journal of Transport and Land Use Journal Article
2021 Health, environmental and distributional impacts of cycling uptake: The model underlying the Propensity to Cycle tool for England and Wales James Woodcock, Rachel Aldred, Robin Lovelace, Tessa Strain, Anna Goodman Journal of Transport & Health Journal Article
2021 Cycling behaviour and socioeconomic disadvantage: An investigation based on the English National Travel Survey Eugeni Vidal Tortosa, Robin Lovelace, Eva Heinen, Richard P. Mann Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Journal Article
2021 ClockBoard: A zoning system for urban analysis Robin Lovelace, Martijn Tennekes, Dustin Carlino OSF Preprints Report
2021 Active Travel Oriented Development: Assessing the suitability of sites for new homes Joseph Talbot, Martin Lucas-Smith, Andrew Speakman, Megan Streb, Simon Nuttall, Dustin Carlino, Patrick Johansson, Nathanael Sheehan, Nikée Groot, Robin Lovelace OSF Preprints Journal Article
2021 Active Travel Oriented Development: Assessing the suitability of sites for new homes Joseph Talbot, Martin Lucas-Smith, Andrew Speakman, Megan Streb, Simon Nuttall, Dustin Carlino, Patrick Johansson, Nathanael Sheehan, Nikée Groot, Robin Lovelace OSF Preprints Report
2020 Travel flow aggregation: Nationally scalable methods for interactive and online visualisation of transport behaviour at the road network level Malcolm Morgan, Robin Lovelace Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design Journal Article
2020 Street Networks in R Andrea Gilardi, Robin Lovelace OSF Journal Article
2020 Road lighting density and brightness linked with increased cycling rates after-dark Jim Uttley, Steve Fotios, Robin Lovelace PLOS ONE Journal Article
2020 Reproducible road safety research with R Robin Lovelace Royal Automotive Club Foundation Report
2020 Open access, open source and cloud computing: A glimpse into the future of GIS Christopher Pettit, Bob Stimson, Jack Barton, Xavier Goldie, Philip Greenwood, Robin Lovelace, Serryn Eagleson Handbook of Planning Support Science Journal Article
2020 Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning Robin Lovelace, John Parkin, Tom Cohen Transport Policy Journal Article
2020 Methods to Prioritise Pop-up Active Transport Infrastructure Robin Lovelace, Joseph Talbot, Malcolm Morgan, Martin Lucas-Smith Transport Findings Journal Article
2020 Is the London Cycle Hire Scheme becoming more inclusive? An evaluation of the shifting spatial distribution of uptake based on 70 million trips Robin Lovelace, Roger Beecham, Eva Heinen, Eugeni Vidal Tortosa, Yuanxuan Yang, Chris Slade, Antonia Roberts Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Journal Article
2020 Different people, different incentives? Examining the public acceptance of smartphone-based persuasive strategies for sustainable travel using psychographic segmentation Rafael A. Reis, Susan Grant-Muller, Robin Lovelace, Frances Hodgson International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Journal Article
2020 Association of prevalence of active transport to work and incidence of myocardial infarction: A nationwide ecological study Theresa Munyombwe, Robin Lovelace, Mark Green, Paul Norman, Sarah Walpole, Marlous Hall, Adam Timmis, Phil Batin, Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan Brownlee, Ged Oliver, Chris P Gale European Journal of Preventive Cardiology Journal Article
2019 stats19 A package for working with open road crash data Robin Lovelace, Malcolm Morgan, Layik Hama, Mark Padgham Journal of Open Source Software Journal Article
2019 Scenarios of cycling to school in England, and associated health and carbon impacts: Application of the “Propensity to Cycle Tool” Anna Goodman, Ilan Fridman Rojas, James Woodcock, Rachel Aldred, Nikolai Berkoff, Malcolm Morgan, Ali Abbas, Robin Lovelace Journal of Transport & Health Journal Article
2019 OpenTripPlanner for R Malcolm Morgan, Marcus Young, Robin Lovelace, Layik Hama Journal of Open Source Software Journal Article
2019 Geocomputation with R Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, Jannes Muenchow CRC Press Book
2019 Characterising climate change discourse on social media during extreme weather events Nicholas Roxburgh, Dabo Guan, Kong Joo Shin, William Rand, Shunsuke Managi, Robin Lovelace, Jing Meng Global Environmental Change Journal Article
2019 Assessing the Potential for Uptake of Cycling to School: A Case Study of England Anna Goodman, Ilan Fridman-Rojas, Rachel Aldred, James Woodcock, Robin Lovelace Journal of Transport & Health Journal Article
2018 Using Geocomputation to explore the active travel impacts of new roads and railways Robin Lovelace, Malcolm Morgan GISRUK Conference Paper
2018 Stplanr: A Package for Transport Planning Robin Lovelace, Richard Ellison The R Journal Journal Article
2018 Fuel price differentials and car ownership: A spatial analysis of diesel cars in Northern Ireland Craig Morton, Robin Lovelace, Ian Philips, Jillian Anable Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Journal Article
2018 Estimating the Determinants of Cycling: From Area to Road Network Levels Robin Lovelace, John Parkin Journal of Transport & Health Conference Paper
2018 Estimating cycling potential on route networks in Accra and Kathmandu R Lovelace, N Groot, M Adepeju, M Padgham World Health Organization Report
2018 Development of the Impacts of Cycling Tool (ICT): A modelling study and web tool for evaluating health and environmental impacts of cycling uptake James Woodcock, Ali Abbas, Alvaro Ullrich, Marko Tainio, Robin Lovelace, Thiago H. Sá, Kate Westgate, Anna Goodman PLOS Medicine Journal Article
2017 The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning Robin Lovelace, Anna Goodman, Rachel Aldred, Nikolai Berkoff, Ali Abbas, James Woodcock Journal of Transport and Land Use Journal Article
2017 Public transport and school location impacts on educational inequalities: Insights from São Paulo Ana I. Moreno-Monroy, Robin Lovelace, Frederico R. Ramos Journal of Transport Geography Journal Article
2017 Population Synthesis with Quasirandom Integer Sampling Andrew Smith, Robin Lovelace, Mark Birkin Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Journal Article
2017 Osmdata Mark Padgham, Robin Lovelace, Maëlle Salmon, Bob Rudis The Journal of Open Source Software Journal Article
2017 New tools of the trade? The potential and pitfalls of’Machine Learning’and’DAGs’ to model origin-destination data Robin Lovelace, Ilan Fridman-Rojas GeoComputation 2017 Conference Paper
2017 New tools of the trade? The potential and pitfalls of ’Machine Learning’ and ’DAGs’ to model origin-destination data R. Lovelace, I. Fridman-Rojas, R. Long GeoComputation 2017 Conference Paper
2017 Exploring the effect of local transport policies on the adoption of low emission vehicles: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge and Hybrid Electric Vehicles Craig Morton, Robin Lovelace, Jillian Anable Transport Policy Journal Article
2017 David Boyce and Huw Williams, Forecasting urban travel: Past, present and future Robin Lovelace Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Journal Article
2016 Who, where, when: The demographic and geographic distribution of bicycle crashes in West Yorkshire Robin Lovelace, Hannah Roberts, Ian Kellar Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour Journal Article
2016 Spatial microsimulation with R Robin Lovelace, Morgane Dumont CRC Press Book
2016 Mapping out the future of cycling Robin Lovelace Get Britain Cycling Journal Article
2016 From Big Noise to Big Data: Toward the Verification of Large Data sets for Understanding Regional Retail Flows Robin Lovelace, Mark Birkin, Philip Cross, Martin Clarke Geographical Analysis Journal Article
2016 Efficient R Programming: A Practical Guide to Smarter Programming Colin Gillespie, Robin Lovelace O’Reilly Media Book
2016 Cycling promotion schemes and long-term behavioural change: A case study from the University of Sheffield J. Uttley, R. Lovelace Case Studies on Transport Policy Journal Article
2016 A Path Toward the Use of Trail Users’ Tweets to Assess Effectiveness of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pennine Way National Trail Tom Wilson, Robin Lovelace, Andrew J. Evans Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy Journal Article
2015 Spatial data visualisation with R James Cheshire, Robin Lovelace Geocomputation Book Chapter
2015 Evaluating the performance of Iterative Proportional Fitting for spatial microsimulation: New tests for an established technique Robin Lovelace, Dimitris Ballas, Mark M. H. Birkin, Eveline Leeuwen, Dimitris Ballas, Eveline Leeuwen, Mark M. H. Birkin Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Journal Article
2015 Engineering in Development: Transport Robin Lovelace, Andy Mcloughlin Engineers Without Borders UK Book
2015 Crowd sourced vs centralised data for transport planning: A case study of bicycle path data in the UK Robin Lovelace GIS Research UK(GISRUK). Leeds. Http://leeds. Gisruk. Org/abstracts/GISRUK2015_submission_71. pdf Conference Paper
2014 The “oil vulnerability” of commuter patterns: A case study from Yorkshire and the Humber, UK Robin Lovelace, Ian Philips Geoforum Journal Article
2014 The energy costs of commuting: A spatial microsimulation approach Robin Lovelace University of Sheffield Thesis
2014 Review: Sage Handbook of Transport Studies, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Theo Notteboom, Jon Shaw (Eds.). Sage, London (2013). £95, Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84920-789-8 Robin Lovelace Journal of Transport Geography Journal Article
2014 Overcoming car dependence: Review of “The car dependent society–a European perspective” Robin Lovelace Environment and Planning B-Planning and Design Journal Article
2014 Jornadas de SIG Libre: A European Digital Mapping Conference Robin Lovelace Geoinformatics Journal Article
2014 Introduction to visualising spatial data in R Robin Lovelace, James Cheshire   Report
2014 Introducing spatial microsimulation with R: A practical Robin Lovelace National Centre for Research Methods Journal Article
2014 Hint of proper funding for cycling, but we must fight for it – with evidence Robin Lovelace    
2014 Harnessing open street map data with R and QGIS Robin Lovelace   Report
2014 Geotagged tweets to inform a spatial interaction model: A case study of museums Robin Lovelace, Nick Malleson, Kirk Harland, Mark Birkin Arxiv working paper Journal Article
2013 “Truncate, replicate, sample”: A method for creating integer weights for spatial microsimulation Robin Lovelace, Dimitris Ballas Computers, Environment and Urban Systems Journal Article
2013 Sacred Economics Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2013 Doctoral students who publish Robin Lovelace Doctoral Times Journal Article
2013 A spatial microsimulation approach for the analysis of commuter patterns: From individual to regional levels Robin Lovelace, Dimitris Ballas, Matt Watson Journal of Transport Geography Journal Article
2012 The mystery of Sheffield’s steepest hill Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2012 On Yer Bike: Joining the sustainable transport revolution Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2012 Carbon Capture and Storage: Bury the myth and focus on alternatives Robin Lovelace, Luke Temple Metis Journal Article
2011 The Ecotechnic Future Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2011 Bike trailers Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2011 Assessing the energy implications of replacing car trips with bicycle trips in Sheffield, UK Robin Lovelace, S. B. M. B M Beck, M. Watson, A. Wild Energy Policy Journal Article
2011 Assessing the energy implication of political intervention Robin Lovelace    
2010 How to Set Up and Run a Bicycle Repair Company Robin Lovelace    
2010 Fear Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2010 Energy futures Robin Lovelace Now Then Journal Article
2010 Cycle-touring: A vision of post-peak holidays? Robin Lovelace    
2008 Energy: Efficiency gains alone won’t reduce emissions. Robin Lovelace Nature Journal Article
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