Next CogNav RIN webinar coming soon! Ana Basiri from the University of Glasgow.

Active Transport: Navigation Services for non-drivers

This talk will look at the challenges of using navigation services, that have been initially designed for in-car use, for pedestrians and wheelchair users. Active travel and non-drivers navigation services still need some customisations to accommodate the needs of other user groups, including pedestrians or wheelchair users. Non-drivers’ movements are not limited by the directed networks of streets and roads, can continue inside the buildings, while limited to a much slower speed, and more vulnerable to the bad weather or pavement surface conditions. These differences are not completely addressed in current routing and navigation services and as a result walking, cycling, or wheelchair pathfinding and routing still need further adjustments. This talk will review the challenges, provide some examples and solutions to address the challenges, and showcase some of the implementations of the proposed solutions. 

Bio:

Ana Basiri is a Professor in Geospatial Data Science and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Ana is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Navigation and she works on developing (theoretical and applied) solutions that consider gaps, unavailability, and biases in data as a useful source of data to make inferences about the underlying reasons that caused missingness or biases. Her research is funded by UK Research and Innovation, European Research Council, and Royal Society allowing her to build and lead a team of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with world-leading academic and industrial partners, including Ordnance Survey GB, Uber, Alan Turing Institute. Ana has received several awards and prizes, including Women Role Model in Science by Alexander Humboldt and European Commission Marie Curie Alumni.