Resources
This page lists the free resources that I found useful during my PhD journey, including technical (e.g. road network data sets) and general (e.g. research job opportunities platform) resources.
Road network data sets
From my experience, it's tricky to get complete and reliable road network data for modelling. I know of the following sources:
- OpenStreetMap (OSM): www.openstreetmap.org
Several tools and datasets are built on top of OSM data:
OSMnx, Phyton package for downloading and manipulating OSM data: https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx
Urban Road Network Data of CSUN: http://csun.uic.edu/datasets.html
The Network Data Repository with Interactive Graph Analytics and Visualization: http://networkrepository.com/road.php
- Stanford Network Analysis Project: https://snap.stanford.edu/data/index.html#road
- Transportation Networks for Research: https://github.com/bstabler/TransportationNetworks
Computer programming and data science
I used R, Python and Julia during my PhD.
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 3: https://buildmedia.readthedocs.org/media/pdf/howtothink/latest/howtothink.pdf
- R Programming for Data Science: https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/rprogdatascience/
- The Julia Express: http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf
- Cognitive class (IBM MOOC platform): https://cognitiveclass.ai/
- Kaggle (Machine Learning courses and competitions): https://www.kaggle.com/
Other resources
- EU platform for research job and funding opportunities (that's where it all started for me !!): https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/
- A seminal book on complex network theory: Network Science, Barabási: http://networksciencebook.com/
- A book to get started with LateX (which I used to write my thesis and papers): https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
- QGIS tool for transport modelling, AequilibraE: https://github.com/AequilibraE
- R and Python package for network analysis, igraph: https://igraph.org/
- Python package for network analysis, NetworkX: https://networkx.org/
- Julia package for transport modelling, TrafficAssignement.jl: https://github.com/chkwon/TrafficAssignment.jl