Meet the team
David McArthur
Associate Director – Training and Capacity Building
Dr David McArthur is the Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building at UBDC and is a Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has a background in economics and works mainly within the field of regional science with a focus on transport.
Research interests
- The use of new and novel forms of data in urban analysis
- Big data
- Modelling the wider impacts of transportation infrastructure
- Accessibility analysis
- Spatial interaction modelling
Positions
- Senior Lecturer (Urban Studies), School of Social and Political Sciences
Publication links
Publications
Enhancing our understanding of short-term rental activity: a daily scrape-based approach for Airbnb listings.
2024
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Influence of maternal past non-transport pro-environmental behaviours on young adults' sustainable transport.
2024
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The examination of the relationship between Internet use at home, on the move and trip frequencies of public transport and private vehicle before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024
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Public transport accessibility indicators to urban and regional services in Great Britain.
2024
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Role of maternal non-transport pro-environmental behaviors in adolescents’ travel-to-school mode choices.
2024
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Re-examining the role of street network configuration on bicycle commuting using crowdsourced data.
2024
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Towards Just Neighbourhoods: Leveraging Geospatial Data Science to Understand Night-Time Public Transport Variability in British Cities.
2023
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Hosting major events: Understanding the impacts of short-term rentals in Glasgow during COP26.
2023
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The challenges of measuring the short-term rental market: an analysis of open data on Airbnb activity.
2023
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Neighbourhood deprivation, changes in walking attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic and walking demand in the post-pandemic period.
2023
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From morning to night: Unveiling the variability in public transport services across Great Britain.
2023
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How do psychological, habitual and built environment factors influence cycling in a city with a well-connected cycling infrastructure?
2022
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Did air pollution continue to affect bike share usage in Seoul during the COVID-19 pandemic?
2022
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Examining the effects of a temporary subway closure on cycling in Glasgow using bike-sharing data.
2021
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The impact of privacy protection measures on the utility of crowdsourced cycling data.
2021
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The evaluation of large cycling infrastructure investments in Glasgow using crowdsourced cycle data.
2020
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Some consequences of ignoring relocations in the cost–benefit analysis of transportation infrastructure investments.
2020
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Understanding the impacts of Covid-19 on the Glasgow City-region economy - Gauging impacts through big data?
2020
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Can providing safe cycling infrastructure encourage people to cycle more when it rains? The use of crowdsourced cycling data (Strava)
2020
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Spatial urban data system: a cloud-enabled big data infrastructure for social and economic urban analytics.
2019
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Can accessing the Internet while travelling encourage commuters to use public transport regardless of their attitude?
2019
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Is the popularity of social networking services beneficial for public health? Focusing on active travel and BMI.
2018
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Enhancing data privacy with semantic trajectories: a raster-based framework for GPS stop/move management.
2018
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Might Using the Internet While Travelling Affect Car Ownership Plans of Millennials?
2017
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Detecting Stops from GPS Trajectories: A Comparison of Different GPS Indicators for Raster Sampling Methods.
2017
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Linking Smartphone GPS Data with Transport Planning: A Framework of Data Aggregation and Anonymization for a Journey Planning App.
2017
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Resultatevaluering av Omsorgsplan 2015: Kommunenes drifts- og investeringsbeslutninger.
2015
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The suitability of hedonic models for cost-benefit analysis: evidence from commuting flows.
2014
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Employment, transport infrastructure, and rural depopulation: a new spatial equilibrium model.
2014
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Predicting with a small amount of data: an application of fuzzy reasoning to regional disparities.
2014
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Exploring the determinants of regional unemployment disparities in small data sets.
2012
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The spatial transferability of parameters in a gravity model of commuting flows.
2011
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Reporting Practices in Merchant Shipping, and the Identification of Influencing Factors.
2011
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Assessing the economic impact of wind farms on tourism in Scotland: GIS, surveys and policy outcomes.
2010
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