CASA Seminar Series: Gerry Casey and Nick Bec, Arup City Modelling Lab

Gerry leads Arup’s City Modelling Lab, an R&D team working across both fundamental and applied research in city scale simulations. He is interested in evidence based decision making and modelling for enlightenment, not post-justification.

Nick is an analytics consultant with over ten years of experience providing clients with actionable and evidence-based analysis. With experience working as an internal and external consultant across a wide range of sectors and clients, he specialises in bridging the gap between technical analysis and business impact.

The City Modelling Lab is an interdisciplinary team, with a mixture of domain experts (in transport, energy, climate change, air quality, and economics), data scientists, software engineers and designers working to make cities better. We work on city scale simulations, for both hard infrastructure scenario testing (e.g. new metro systems) and soft policy testing (e.g. road pricing). We synthesise populations and build Agent and Activity based models of our cities. We use these techniques and approaches to help us guide decision making on decarbonisation, equitable growth and the possible impact of innovation and disruption (e.g. ride sharing and MaaS). The Lab works closely with academia, on both fundamental and applied research in this space.