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Martin Bach has been taking advantage of 'Open Data' to develop processes that can be used to construct detailed multi-modal networks suitable for modelling in an efficient and cost effective manner.

He gave a presentation on this topic at the recent Transport Modellers Conference held at Chelsea, and will be giving a similar presentation at the Transport Practitioners Meeting in Liverpool in July.

Andrew Last has continued to be heavily involved in concessionary fares activity, having been an adviser to the Institute for Transport Studies team at the University of Leeds who are responsible for a major research project on behalf of the Department for Transport. Amongst other inputs, .

Miles Logie and Rebecca Jegou have been giving thought as to how the current 'hot topic' of Smarter Choices can be brought into the modelling realm, and the result is a White Paper which can be downloaded from here.