Dr Joan Serras
The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is one of the leading forces in the science of cities, generating new knowledge and insights for use in city planning, policy and design and drawing on the latest geospatial methods and ideas in computer-based visualisation and modelling. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.
Profile
Biography
Joan holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Girona and a PhD in Engineering Design for Complex Transportation Systems from the Open University. He spent the next two years after his PhD as a research assistant at the Open University improving the Milton Keynes scenario which he implemented using the TRANSIMS transport model during his PhD. He is currently a visiting research fellow for the Open University.
He became a research associate at CASA on 2010 under the SCALE project which explores the relationship between residential location and travel choice at the level of cities.
Research Summary
My research focusses on transport modelling, multi-layered complex systems and network analysis and vulnerability. I am interested in current dicotomies to approach travel demand -trip-based or activity-based- and route assignment -static or dynamic- and the costs and benefits of each one in transport models. I am also interested in the role of multi-layered complex systems and how events spread on them with a focus on large multi-modal transport networks.
Research outputs
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| SCALE: Small Changes Lead to Large Effects: Changing Energy Costs in Transport and Location |