Welcome to the City Modelling Lab

We take some of the most pressing and complex challenges facing cities such as social inequality and climate change and develop methods, data and tools to enable decision makers to tackle them

AI for Collective Intelligence - Smart Cities

Artificial intelligence for smarter city planning

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National Trip End Model Synthetic Population

Building a synthetic population for the UK Department for Transport

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TRACK-UK

Synthesised Census and Small Area Statistics for Transport and Energy

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GeoMobility

Geodemographics for Equitable Mobility Futures

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Latest Posts

Beatrice Taylor

May 21, 2025

London's permanent accommodation crisis

At the root of the temporary accommodation crisis is a lack of council housing, but what are councils doing to address it?

Latest Publications

Yuxin Nie, Shivani Bhatnagar, Duncan Smith, Esra Suel. Disparities in Public Transport Accessibility in London from 2011 to 2021. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2024.

Steven Stalder, Michele Volpi, Nicolas Büttner, Stephen Law, Kenneth Harttgen, Esra Suel. Self-Supervised Learning Unveils Urban Change from Street-Level Images. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2024.

Esra Suel, Claude Lynch, Maria Wood, Tom Murat, Gerry Casey, Adam Dennett. Measuring Transport-Associated Urban Inequalities: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?. Transport Reviews, 2024.

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