Michael Szell

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This EU Horizon project (Grant ID 101104240) includes over 30 partners and 12 European cities representing more than 4.5 million citizens. The project aims to transform cities’ car-centered mobility narratives that take for granted that streets are for motorized traffic only, to promote walking, cycling and other active modes of mobility.

ITU's funding share: 298,725 EUR
Funding 1 PhD student

The project "Netværksanalyse af den danske cykelinfrastruktur", funded by the Danish Ministry of Transport / Vejdirektoratet (Grant ID CP21-033), applies metrics and tools from network analysis on Danish open data bicycle infrastructure networks, to develop a scientific, evidence-based framework to suggest where to add new network connections or other interventions for improving sustainable bicycle infrastructure.

ITU's funding share: 2,019,485 DKK (~271,000 EUR)
Funding 1 PhD student

This project is funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Premium Post Doctorate Research Programme 2016). It develops a bottom-up understanding of the universal mechanisms of conflict and controversy in complex social systems by analyzing multiple large-scale data sets of human behavior using advanced data mining techniques and statistical tools.

Funding: 23,885,000 HUF (~77,000 EUR)
Funding myself. I discontinued this grant in Oct 2017 due to assuming an Assistant Professor position.

A Python package for partitioning an urban street network into Superblock-like neighborhoods and for visualizing and analyzing the partition results. A Superblock is a set of adjacent urban blocks where vehicular through traffic is prevented or pacified, giving priority to people walking and cycling.

A Mastodon community of nice & diverse people researching human-centric data science and adjacent topics, like human-centric data/network science, social data science, computational social science.

An interactive visualization platform growing cohesive urban bicycle networks - something that every modern city should have. Studying these synthetic networks informs us about the geometric limitations of urban bicycle network growth and can lead to better designed bicycle infrastructure in cities.

GrowBike.Net accompanies the scientific paper "Growing Urban Bicycle Networks".

This visualization identifies the most distinct environments for cycling arriving from different approaches of urban planning.

A Science of Science tribute to Stephen Hawking. This interactive plot allows the exploration of the influential physicist's oeuvre - scientific papers and books - and its impact.

An online platform for the interactive exploration of city-wide mobility spaces. The aim of What the Street!? is to facilitate the intuitive exploration of (wasted) mobility space in cities, exploring to which extent space is distributed unevenly between different modes of transportation, and how massive areas of car parking could be regained for the public. What the Street?! was added to Futurium's permanent exhibition in 2019.

An online tool for visualizing and exploring taxi traces and taxi shareability in New York City, related to the scientific paper "Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks".

Webpage and visualizations accompanying the scientific paper "Contraction of online response to major events".

Wikipedia: Pardus is an award-winning graphical browser-based MMORPG written in PHP and C/C++ and set in a futuristic universe where players interact and compete in space. It is a persistent-universe, open-ended game with a player-driven economy. Players travel through hundreds of "sectors" or solar systems while trading, building or battling with Non-Player Characters (NPCs) and other players. There are dozens of spacecraft models in Pardus, which can be customized with different weapons, armor and other equipment. Pardus characters do not have a defined 'class'.

Partially inspired by classic computer games such as Elite and Master of Orion II, Pardus was developed and published by the Austrian company Bayer & Szell OG. Alpha testing of the game began September 2004 and the core feature set was finished by October 1, 2006.

The game was featured in dozens of media and has a worldwide user base of over 450,000 players. Pardus' player society has been studied in over 20 research papers, referenced by hundreds of studies.

Based on reLINE's 1989 PC game "OIL IMPERIUM", you are a manager trying to make money with oil. There exist 4 world regions with separate price indices, where you are able to purchase fields and sell your extracted oil. As the game takes its course, fires break out, sabotages can happen, and delivery treaties may be signed. The TI-92 game was featured on ticalc.org.