How big data and AI can help policymakers evaluate mobility projects
Following the vehement protests against the Good Move plan, the much-discussed Brussels mobility plan that was implemented in several phases starting in 2019 and shortly thereafter was already discarded by a number of municipalities, scientists from the VUB Data Analytics Lab and the VUB Mobilise research group decided to find out to what extent that negative vibe matched reality. An examination of Tweets in Brussels during the period between 2019 and 2022 reveals that opinions on successive implementations of the plan were not nearly as negative as one might think. The result must be viewed with a certain nuance, since the audience on Twitter (now X, nvdr) is not a representative sample of the population. ...
