Open Source Software

The Data Science & Technology theme at ITS develops and maintains open source software tools for transport research, planning, and analysis. Our software is freely available and supports reproducible research and practical applications.

Key Software Projects

Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT)

Website: www.pct.bike
Description: Strategic planning tool for cycling infrastructure used across England and Wales
Code: Open source R packages and web application

Network Planning Tools for Scotland (NPT.scot)

Website: npt.scot
Description: Open network planning tools for transport planning in Scotland
Focus: Accessibility, active travel, and low-carbon mobility

R Packages for Transport

Our team develops and maintains several R packages for transport data science:

stplanr

Sustainable Transport Planning with R

A package for solving common problems in transport planning and modelling, such as downloading and cleaning transport datasets, creating desire lines, and working with origin-destination data. (Hosted by rOpenSci but developed by ITS researchers).

pct ⭐ 20 stars

Propensity to Cycle Tool Data

Functions to access and reproduce data from the Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT), making the data more accessible for research and educational purposes.

od ⭐ 33 stars

Origin-Destination Data Analysis

An R package specifically designed for working with and manipulating origin-destination data, a core component of transport modelling.

UK2GTFS ⭐ 43 stars

Convert UK Transport Data to GTFS

A tool to convert UK transport data formats (like TransXchange and ATOC CIF) into the standard General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format.

stats19

Road Safety Data Analysis

An R package for working with UK road collision data from the STATS19 database.

osmextract

OpenStreetMap Data Processing

Tools for downloading and processing OpenStreetMap data for transport analysis.

Additional Resources

opentransportdata ⭐ 21 stars

Open Transport Data List

A curated list of open transport datasets for research, teaching, and to save the world.

tds ⭐ 51 stars

Transport Data Science

Materials for the Transport Data Science post-graduate module at the University of Leeds’ Institute for Transport Studies.

rrsrr ⭐ 7 stars

Reproducible Road Safety Research with R

A practical user manual (book) for conducting reproducible road safety research using R.

NTEM2OD ⭐ 5 stars

NTEM to OD Matrix Converter

Scripts to convert the National Trip Ends Model (NTEM) into an Origin-Destination (OD) Matrix.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to our open source projects. Visit our GitHub repositories to get involved, report issues, or suggest improvements.

Contact

For questions about our software or collaboration opportunities, please contact us.