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Short-haul flights in Spain: is high-speed rail an alternative?

24.01.2023 · Javier Burrieza

Aviation Transport & Mobility Climate change Multimodality Short-haul flights Trains TRANSIT

Short-haul flights in Spain: is high-speed rail an alternative?

France has received the go-ahead from the European Commission to ban short-haul flights in trips for which there is a good rail alternative. In this article we review the fine print of the French law, identify which connections in Spain meet the criteria — or will do so with the planned infrastructures —, and analyse the effects that this may have for the passengers of some of the connections that are could be affected by this measure in Spain.

Using Machine Learning to predict sociodemographic characteristics

18.05.2021 · Rafael Jordá

Aviation Real estate Retail & Geomarketing Smart cities Tourism Transport & Mobility Big Data Decision Trees Machine Learning Mobile Phone Data Random Forest

Using Machine Learning to predict sociodemographic characteristics

Mobile phone data has become a fundamental tool to extract the mobility patterns of the population. However, this data often lack reliable information about some of the main sociodemographic characteristics of the users. In this article we will explain how we deal with these limitations at Nommon by using machine learning techniques.