Open Data and Transport Modelling

Abstract

Computer modelling has become one of the main methods of predicting the behaviour of traffic and passenger flows within small areas, cities, or entire regions. Sometimes the lack of data, either open or proprietary, or the lack of knowledge of where to find it and how to prepare it, is an obstacle to the development of a traffic model.

In this paper, the author has chosen to focus on finding and processing the freely available data on the population, infrastructure, facilities characteristics and placement for developing traffic models in any locality in the Czech Republic, regardless of size. The format of the processed data is chosen in such a way that it can be used for other analytical purposes.