First blog post! Explaining the genesis of this research and my first instincts on the research approach.
Stumbling over the first challenge -- sourcing the right baseline OD data.
My delight when Claude could find that someone else had done the hard work of scraping live location data of buses all over UK (which eventually inspired me to make this Dissertation Diary!)
The first iteration of an accessibility analysis that aligns as much as possible with CfC report, but with slight tweaks.
The results of the accessibility analysis 1.0, and how it SHOULD NOT be compared to the CfC report as of now.
After first in-person meeting at CfC with Rob, consultations with Esra and Clara, and a fairly extended break, here's where the dissertation direction is likely to go...
Selecting the best OD matrix data by having a limited comparison exercise with Greater Manchester's 2024 Travel Diary Survey.
Updating the steps to analyse scheduled-vs-actual BUS accessibility after greater understanding of CfC's report, finalising on an OD dataset, and obtaining more data from CfC.
Comparing the results of two possible methods to find the scheduled-vs-actual bus accessibility gap.
I did not do enough comparison work when selecting the suitable OD matrix data. Here's how I fixed it!
Clarifying the boundaries for the city region and city centre that I will be using for my research.
Here's why I have not been updating for the past two weeks.
I am finally getting started with literature review...
I thought of wanting to dive deeper into travel time reliability, uncertainty, inaccuracy and variability for today's lit review.
Since I learnt about rt2gtfs package through literature review, I discuss the differences between the two methods in generating retrospective GTFS.
I have done more work since then, I just have not gotten around to updating this diary. So now I am writing my entries to act as drafts for the dissertation text itself!
The draft 'Introduction' section for my dissertation paper.
The draft 'Literature Review' section for my dissertation paper (only Section 2.1 is ready!)
Writing the lit review section is very tedious, I must say. I have only gotten Section 2.2 ready, one more subsection to go.