Philip James

About

Professor Philip James leads the Urban Observatory Programme in Newcastle, one of the largest urban environmental monitoring programmes in Europe. His research focuses on using urban data, especially real-time data, to address urban challenges such as mobility, air pollution, and carbon reduction. He works across engineering, computing science, and policy, and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alan Turing Institute.

Education

• BA (Hons) Japanese, Newcastle, 1991

Selected publications

• Trustworthy urban digital twin: A RAG-based architecture for integrating verifiable knowledge
• A MATSim model methodology to generate cycling-focused transport scenarios in England
• Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus
• Dafni: a computational platform to support infrastructure systems research
• Realizing Smart City Infrastructure at Scale, in the Wild: A Case Study
• Assessing post-disaster recovery using sentiment analysis: The case of L’Aquila, Italy
• An ontology-based system for discovering landslide-induced emergencies in electrical grid
• Use of social media data in disaster management: A survey
• Towards an End-to-End Framework of CCTV-Based Urban Traffic Volume Detection and Prediction
• Topological integration of BIM and geospatial water utility networks across the building envelope