About

Who am I?

My name is Pedro Camargo, and I am a Transportation Scientist.

I am currently involved in research with a large US National Laboratory, in developing Open-Source software and direct Outer Loop Consulting, an Australian-Based consulting company.

These days I’m interested in Software Development, Operations Research, the use of passive datasets (e.g. GPS, LBS), discrete choice econometrics, and GIS.

I have previously held the position of Principal Model Developer with Veitch Lister Consulting (Australia),  and Transportation Engineer with the Maricopa Association of Governments (the Phoenix Metropolitan Planning Organization, Arizona USA).

Before I moved to the US for my Ph.D., I also worked for a consultancy company in transportation modeling and on the strategic planning of the transportation department of a very large mining company.

The content and opinions on this website are always my own.

More here. Or just send me an e-mail at c @ margo.co

What is this all about?

A website with tips and tools for using GIS, Python, MS Excel (hopefully nothing further on xl), and some proprietary modeling packages in the transportation modeling field.

Why?

Because I STILL don’t see people sharing tools for transportation planning on the internet, and we should not be re-inventing the wheel all the time.

So what?

I’ll post:

• Results of interesting analysis I have done in my research along with the tools/code used to do them;
• Scripts and tools were written and Python and Cython;
• Geodatabases and QGIS projects related to transportation;
• model implementation ideas in TransCAD, Emme, Cube, and other platforms I get my hands on, along with Scripts written in their respective scripting languages;
• Anything else related to transportation.

And what NOT?

Free individual technical support. I have been receiving a LOT of requests for free support in AequilibraE and TransCad (the latter is becoming rarer, thankfully). If you have a question about one particular software, please send it to the user’s list and I’ll probably respond, as well as many other experienced users will. That would benefit a much larger pool of people.

You can join the AequilibraE Google Groups HERE.