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Hi there, I’m Billy Charlton
Featured Projects
SimWrapper
SimWrapper is the culmination of my Ph.D. thesis research: an open data visualization platform for examining outputs from MATSim and ActivitySim transport simulations.
Interactive visualizations of virus spreading through Berlin, plus dashboards for comparing results of hundreds of EpiSim simulations.
Visualization of Uber and Lyft pickups/dropoffs in San Francisco, part of a larger effort to understand the impacts of shared mobility on SF Streets.
Featured Publications
SimWrapper, an open source web-based platform for interactive visualization of microsimulation outputs and transport data . ABMTrans 2023: The 14th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffc and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications, 2023. A Web-Based Data Visualization Platform for MATSim Billy Charlton, Janek Laudan. Transportation Research Record 2674.10, 2020. Dissertation: Web-based data visualization in support of agent-based microsimulation models William Charlton. , 2023. Using mobile phone data for epidemiological simulations of lockdowns: government interventions, behavioral changes, and resulting changes of reinfections Sebastian A. Müller, Michael Ballmer, Billy Charlton, et al. medRxiv, 2020. A GPS-based bicycle route choice model for San Francisco, California Jeffrey Hood, Elizabeth Sall, Billy Charlton. Transportation Letters 3, no. 1, 2011. Using an activity-based model to explore the potential impacts of automated vehicles Suzanne Childress, Brice Nichols, Billy Charlton. Transportation Research Record 2493.1, 2015.
Recent Blog Entries
Latest Personal News
- Finished my Ph.D. magna cum laude :-)
- SimWrapper now has users worldwide, both for MATSim and ActivitySim model users
- Built the COVID-Sim infection portal tracking COVID-19 infections with EpiSim model
- I moved to Berlin and started working at TU Berlin
- Spent the summer in San Francisco building Uber/Lyft data visualizations for SFCTA
- Left my position as Director of Data at PSRC in Seattle
Latest Travel & Conferences
| Jan 5–10, '25 | TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. |
| Jun 17, '24 | MATSim User Conference 2024, Helsinki, Finland |
| Jan 8–12, '23 | TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC |
| May 28, '22 | MATSim User Conference, Leuven, Belgium |
| Oct 25–30, '20 | IEEE VIS, Online |
| Jan 7–12, '20 | TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC |
| Oct 10–12, '19 | PyData, Berlin |
| Sep 21–26, '19 | hEART: European Assoc. for Research in Transportation, Prague |
| Jun 2–5, '18 | TRB Applications Conference, Portland, OR |
| Oct 16–26, '18 | IEEE VIS, Berlin |