TGISLab · open notebook
An open notebook on transport data and AI.
Explorations we publish as we make them. Tag-driven, searchable, updated when we learn something.
Programmatic Data Access Audit
Walking the APIs, licenses, and docs of 25 transport data sources — what an agent could actually call today, and what it would hit a paywall on.
Schema Profiles & Access Patterns
OPSIS, PortWatch, World Bank, OECD/DAC, ADB ATO, SuM4All — schema fields, types, and join keys. The raw material for any downstream tool.
Transport Data Commons (TDC)
What's in the 460-dataset TDC catalogue — where the quality holds up, where agents would be misled by gaps, and which domains still sit outside any open index.
World Bank Transport Data
Coverage across countries, years, and modes. Where the series break, where they stop, and what that means for any agent trying to answer a question longitudinally.
Transport Taxonomies
The vocabulary the field already uses — modes, sub-domains, data categories, indicators, standards. Before inventing anything new we wanted to know what already had consensus — and where it breaks down.
Partner Organisations
WRI, GIZ, TRL, Oxford, MDBs, UN agencies, TDC, SLOCAT, FCDO. What each does, where they overlap, and where a coordination layer would actually help.
Opportunity Analysis
The UN Decade for Sustainable Transport, AI applications in the field today, and systems in adjacent domains we can learn from (health, climate, energy).
Databases & Platforms
A first pass across the portals agents would encounter — OPSIS, PortWatch, UNECE TDC, African Transport DB, and a dozen others.
Key Sources & References
Links, papers, and source material the lab draws on — a living bibliography.