Varun Raturi

Varun Raturi is an Affiliate Researcher in the School of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, affiliated with the Urban Big Data Centre. His work focuses on transport geography, urban analytics, and the application of mobile and crowdsourced data to understand mobility patterns. Raturi has contributed to studies on bicycle commuting infrastructure, privacy implications in data collection, and modal competition between high-speed rail and other transport modes. His research employs methodologies from GIScience, game theory, and machine learning to address challenges in sustainable urban planning and transport policy.

Recent projects include analyzing the reliability of app-based travel surveys, developing novel techniques for estimating origin-destination matrices using mobile data, and evaluating the impact of privacy measures on crowdsourced cycling data utility. Raturi has presented at leading conferences such as GIScience and AGILE, and his work appears in journals like Journal of Transport Geography and Transportation Planning and Technology.

His research datasets include Strava-derived mobility data from cities like Glasgow, Manchester, and Sheffield, highlighting his focus on leveraging real-world data for urban mobility insights. These datasets underpin his exploration of spatial-temporal mobility patterns and infrastructure impacts, contributing to evidence-based policy recommendations for sustainable urban development.